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Jason King (radio)
Jason King (also known by his initials JK and Short King, born Jason Griffiths, 6 January 1975) is a British radio DJ and TV presenter of programmes such as Hider in the House and Escape from Scorpion Island with friend and long-time colleague Joel Ross. He is currently employed by Heart London on Weekday drivetime from 4pm to 7pm, presenting alongside Kelly Brook (and acting as her personal assistant on the side). He also provides holiday cover for weekday breakfast on Heart FM. Career Early radio career Jason King (Short King), has formerly presented for Sunshine 855 in Ludlow, Galaxy 101 in Bristol and 96.9 Viking FM in Hull, where he met, and was first paired on-air with, Joel Ross. JK and Joel King had become breakfast show host in 1998 after two years on the lunchtime slot, while also hosting a weekend dance music programme called "''Club 969''". After a year of presenting the breakfast slot alone, he was paired up with Ross (a long-time colleague and social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenbury Wells
Tenbury Wells (locally Tenbury) is a small market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the north-western extremity of the Malvern Hills District of Worcestershire, England. Situated 6 miles southeast of Ludlow, its northern border adjoins Shropshire and, at the United Kingdom 2021 Census, 2021 census jointly with Burford, Shropshire, Burford, it had a population of 5,224. History The history of Tenbury Wells extends as far back as the Iron Age. The town has been described as being the home of the Castle Tump, but the Tump is now in Burford owing to boundary changes. The Tump, possibly the remains of an early Norman architecture, Norman motte and bailey castle, can be seen from the main road (A456 road, A456) but there are no visible remains of the castle that was constructed to defend and control the original River Teme crossing. It has also been described as "... the remains of an 11th-century Norman Castle." Originally named ''Temettebury'', the town was grante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music. While there exist attestations of the combination of dance and music in ancient history (for example Ancient Greek vases sometimes show dancers accompanied by musicians), the earliest Western dance music that we can still reproduce with a degree of certainty are old-fashioned dances. In the Baroque period, the major dance styles were noble court dances (see Baroque dance). In the classical music era, the minuet was frequently used as a third movement, although in this context it would not accompany any dancing. The waltz also arose later in the classical era. Both remained part of the romantic music period, which also saw the rise of various other nationalistic dance forms like the barcarolle, mazurka, ecossaise, ballade and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmland or might work as a laborer on land owned by others. In most developed economies, a "farmer" is usually a farm owner ( landowner), while employees of the farm are known as '' farm workers'' (or farmhands). However, in other older definitions a farmer was a person who promotes or improves the growth of plants, land, or crops or raises animals (as livestock or fish) by labor and attention. Over half a billion farmers are smallholders, most of whom are in developing countries and who economically support almost two billion people. Globally, women constitute more than 40% of agricultural employees. History Farming dates back as far as the Neolithic, being one of the defining characteristics of that era. By the Bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenbury High School
Tenbury High Ormiston Academy (formerly Tenbury High School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in Tenbury Wells in the English county of Worcestershire. In 2005 it was awarded specialist science and mathematics status. Previously a community school administered by Worcestershire County Council, Tenbury High School converted to academy status on 1 September 2014 and was renamed Tenbury High Ormiston Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Ormiston Academies Trust but continues to coordinate with Worcestershire County Council for admissions. Senior management The post of Executive Principal at the academy is shared with Ormiston Forge Academy in Cradley Heath Cradley Heath is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is in the Black Country, west of Birmingham. The town was known for the manufacture of chains in the first half of the twentiet .... As of 2020, the postholder is Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook (born Kelly Anne Parsons, 23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, and media personality. She began her career modelling for a range of advertising campaigns, which led to her discovery by the editorial team of the '' Daily Star'' tabloid, where they began featuring her as a Page Three girl. She was crowned '' FHM''s Sexiest Woman in the World in 2005, and as of 2015 had featured in every ''FHM'' 100 Sexiest countdown since 1998. As an actress, Brook has appeared in the films '' ''Ripper'''' (2001), '' The Italian Job'' (2003), '' School for Seduction'' (2004), '' House of 9'' (2004), '' Survival Island'' (2005), '' Fishtales'' (2007), '' Piranha 3D'' (2010), and '' Taking Stock'' (2015). She has appeared on numerous British television shows, including '' The Big Breakfast'' (1999), '' Strictly Come Dancing'' (2007), '' Britain's Got Talent'' (2009), '' Celebrity Juice'' (2012–2015), '' One Big Happy'' (2015), '' ''It's Not Me, It's You'''' (2016), '' Loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Theakston
James Paul Theakston (born 21 December 1970) is an English television presenter, producer, narrator and actor. He has hosted television programmes for the BBC, ITV (TV network), ITV, Channel 4 and 5 (British TV channel), Channel 5. He co-presented the Saturday morning BBC One children's show ''Live & Kicking'' alongside Zoe Ball between 1996 and 1999, and occasionally hosted the music programme ''Top of the Pops'' between 1998 and 2003. He currently co-hosts the national breakfast show with Amanda Holden on Heart (radio network), Heart Radio. Theakston narrated the BBC documentary series ''Traffic Cops'' from 2003 to 2015, and on Channel 5 (British TV channel), Channel 5 from 2016 onwards. He has won a BAFTA award for ''Live & Kicking'' and numerous awards for his radio work, including a Sony Gold, 3 Silver awards and 4 Bronze awards, 2 Arqiva awards, 3 TRIC awards and 2 New York Radio Festival Awards. Education He joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of 13, where he ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Scott (broadcaster)
Harriet Scott (born 23 January 1972) is a British radio presenter with Magic Radio, presenting the Weekday Breakfast show. Career After studying History at Hull University, Scott became a production assistant for BBC Radio Humberside. A move to GWR followed, after which she worked at a number of other stations, including Viking FM, 2-Ten FM, and BRMB in Birmingham. It was while at BRMB in 1997 that she began to move into television, becoming the travel presenter for ITV Central in the West Midlands. She went on to spend several years at Virgin Radio. In 2002, she joined Heart as a co-presenter of ''Heart Breakfast'' on Heart London alongside Jonathan Coleman. In February 2005 she was joined to co-present ''Heart Breakfast'' by Jamie Theakston who was replacing Coleman. The duo won a Sony Radio Silver Award for Best Entertainment Show and Radio Presenters of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards. Between April and July 2011 she was maternity cover for Emma Bunton o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart (radio)
Heart is a network of thirteen independent adult contemporary radio stations in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming, although only the stations in Scotland and Wales still have their own shows. Ten of the stations are owned and operated by Global, while the other three are owned and operated under separate franchise agreements. The national version of the network is widely available on Global Player, Freeview, Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media and Digital One DAB. As of May 2025, Heart has officially surpassed BBC Radio 2 to became UK's biggest radio network with over 13.4 million weekly listeners actively listen to the Heart radio stations, with bigger growth on their dedicated themed stations such as Heart Musicals. History Launch Heart began broadcasting in the West Midlands on 6 September 1994 as 100.7 Heart FM, becoming the UK's third Independent Regional Radio station, five days after Century Radio in North East England, and J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Solent
Heart Solent was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to southern and western parts of Hampshire, West Sussex, Dorset and Isle of Wight. The station launched on 30 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Hampshire (formerly Ocean Sound) and Heart Dorset & New Forest (formerly 2CR). History The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations – Two Counties Radio (2CR) began broadcasting to East Dorset and West Hampshire in September 1980. Ocean Sound served South Hampshire, West Sussex and Isle of Wight from October 1986 onwards. At first, Ocean broadcast two distinct services for the east and west of its service area with a further service for the Winchester area launching in December 1987. The West service was relaunched as Power FM (later Capital South Coast) a year later while the north and east services (The Light FM and Ocean Sound) merged in 1992. Both 2CR and Ocean underwent vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Horobin
Lucy Clare Horobin (born 17 October 1979) is a British radio presenter well-known for presenting Heart London Drivetime with Jason King. Career She attended Nottingham Trent University where she achieved a BA (Hons) in Broadcast Journalism. Horobin began radio presenting at Trent FM alongside Jason King, and then with Rich Clarke on the evening show which was branded ''Rich and Luce''. Horobin and Clarke then moved to Bauer Radio owned Key 103 to present '' In:Demand'', which later became networked on Hits Radio stations in the North of England, and digital station The Hits Radio. In November 2011 she left ''In:Demand''. On 23 January 2012 she and Jason King debuted as presenters of ''Heart Breakfast'' on Heart Solent. From 4 August 2012 the duo had also presented Saturday breakfast on Heart. From 13 until 29 August 2012 she and King presented ''Heart Breakfast'' on Heart London, in the absence of Harriet Scott and Jamie Theakston, meaning they were absent from their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celebrity Total Wipeout
''Total Wipeout'' is a British game show hosted by Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram which first aired on the BBC on 3 January 2009. In each episode, contestants competed in a series of challenges in an attempt to win £10,000. These challenges were based in large pools of water or mud and generally involved large assault courses that contestants had to cross. These were gradually eliminated over four rounds until one contestant remained, who won a £10,000 cash prize, except for the “Celebrity Specials,” in which the money was donated to the winner’s chosen charity. ''Total Wipeout'' was a licensed version of ''Wipeout (2008 game show), Wipeout'', the Endemol show that originated in the United States in 2008, with the name slightly altered to avoid confusion with the BBC version of the Wipeout (UK game show), earlier game show of the same name. The show originally ran for six series, including a special winter-themed series, from 3 January 2009 until 31 December 2012. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Games (British TV)
''The Games'' is a British reality sports game show that ran on Channel 4 for four series, in which 10 celebrities competed against each other, by doing Olympic-style events, such as weight lifting, gymnastics and diving. At the end of the series, the contestants with the most points from each round were awarded either a gold, silver or bronze medal. The series was revived by ITV in May 2022, hosted by Holly Willoughby and Freddie Flintoff. History The show was mainly filmed in Sheffield, at the Sheffield Arena, Don Valley Stadium and Ponds Forge. In later series, the English Institute of Sport – Sheffield, iceSheffield and in series 4 the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham were used for the first time. Most recently the show has been broadcast from the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in south London. Presenters ''The Games'' was presented by Jamie Theakston for the entirety of its run, with track-side reports from Jayne Middlemiss in series 1–3 and Kirs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
