Evening meeting with James Thomas of BBC Radio Wiltshire
27th Nov 2019: Speaker at our evening meeting
James Thomas from BBC Radio Wiltshire spoke at our evening meeting.
James is a presenter on Radio Wiltshire. He is on the air from 2 till 4pm every weekday. In addition, he is always on standby for the breakfast show, in case of emergency. James gave a very humorous presentation about his career. He covered successes as well as notable disasters in his shows, in a frank reflection on the pros and cons of being a radio presenter.
Local Radio stations generally try to get out into their communities as much as is practicable and James described various forays. For example, he had covered Lullusfest, the oldest folk festival in Germany which sets out to celebrate the trip by St Lullus, a monk in Malmesbury who visited Bad Hersfeld in the 730s to convert German tribes to Christianity. On this occasion he was accompanied by our very own Rotarian, Ray Sanderson.
All in all, this was a very enjoyable talk and James kindly offered to publicise our future events as much as possible.
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