Club Weekly Meeting - Mark Cummings (Radio Gloucestershire )

Wed, Feb 25th 2015 at 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Friend: John Barnes
VOT: Richard Allison

With Ladies

Mark Cummings - after his excellent presentation.

Mark Cummings - Radio Gloucestershire

Mark Cummings is the presenter of Radio Gloucestershire’s 6:00 to 9:00 breakfast slot, his wife is Jo, he has two daughters. He supports Gloucester rugby team of course and writes for Cotswold Life. He has lived in the County for 20 years, for the past 10 years, his day has started at 4:00 AM, and finishes when it finishes.

His programme includes local and national news, including its effects locally. It includes weather and traffic news, interviews with local people and personalities, politicians local and national. The main thrust of his programme is 'Gloucestershire past and present' and its history. In a feature called ‘The Hands that Built Gloucestershire’, listeners were asked if they had memories of building the M5 Motorway or if they remembered the A38 before the motorway.

Another feature is the ‘phone without a home’ where a mobile phone is passed from one member of the public to another on a daily basis. The phone has covered a great deal of the County and the people of Gloucestershire have shared what happens in their corner of the County with the rest of us (one member of our Club has participated in this feature, (nice one Simon). There has also been a feature on local pronunciation, Over or Ooover for example.
He also promotes Tourism in Gloucestershire and, if he is to be believed and I am sure he can, he kidnapped a ‘bus load of tourists and took them to parts of Glos’ they would not have normally seen. For example Lauri Lee’s Woolpack, Painswick and the Sculpture Trail in the forest of Dean.
He also berated ‘us locals’ who had never been to the top of May Hill or seen the Severn Bore.
He has interviewed David Cameron pre the last election the results of which can be seen at
Stroud-Cameron-Gaff
He has arrived at work to be told a BBC TV crew are here to make an ‘in house’ training video on how the show is put together, it just happened to be the day he was interviewing Phil Vickery on the day of his retirement.
It is clear that interaction with the people of Gloucestershire is the main thrust of the programme and the anecdotes he shared with us (too many to repeat here) confirmed that. He knows john Simonett, and Mike D’abo of Manfred Mann fame who he told us wrote the Jingle ‘A Finger of Fudge’
An all round presenter who works hard for Gloucestershire and its residents
It was my pleasure to give the vote of thanks.

Richard Allison

P.S. I am writing this listening to BBC Radio Gloucestershire - The 'phone with no home' is in Rodborough

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