Charles Alexis Nove (born 29 June 1960 in London, England) is a British radio broadcaster and voice artist, who currently presents the weekday breakfast show for classical music station Magic Classical. Earlier in his career, he was a newsreader and relief presenter for

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Biography

Early career

The son of Soviet historian Alexander Nove, his earliest presentational experience was at Glasgow's Hospital Broadcasting Service in 1976. From 1981 he was a member of

's continuity team and, in common with many of the station's announcers and newsreaders, he had many stints presenting the station's overnight and early morning output, culminating as regular host of the weekend overnight show for several years until 1998. For BBC television, Nove has been a co-presenter and announcer on the original ''

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,'' and announcer for the gameshow '' Wipeout'' in the 1990s. In 1991 he commentated for

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on the

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. He has also worked as a BBC TV continuity announcer and has presented radio programmes on various stations such as Jazz FM and Magic FM. For several years, he was also the presenter of the EuroMix in-flight audio entertainment channel, exclusive to

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. Between 1995 and 2016, Nove was the stand-in for regular National Lottery announcer

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Later career

In later years he provided holiday relief for Radio 2 and what used to be Saga Radio in Scotland, and following John Marsh's semi-retirement in February 2007 he became one of the regular newsreaders on Radio 2's flagship breakfast show '' Wake Up to Wogan'' until the end of its run in December 2009. Nove continued to read news on Radio 2 until his final bulletin on 8 September 2012. He was also the London studio technical operator when

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presented his Radio 2 show from various locations around Europe during coverage of the

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, and during other outside broadcasts in the UK. Nove is the co-owner of an

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and

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. On the ''Wogan'' show, Nove was known for his impersonation of Cyril "Blakey" Blake, the inspector from the 1970s television sitcom ''

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''. Nove founded the A1 VOX audio recording studios in London in 1999, and was the company's managing director. The company entered voluntary liquidation in 2021. From May 2011, Nove was a presenter on

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, where, until 2016, he presented the religious programme on Sundays between 6 and 9am in addition to the Early Breakfast sequence on certain weekdays. Between March 2015 and December 2018 he presented Early Breakfast on Monday to Friday between 6 and 7am, and was then a contributor to, and newsreader on, the main Breakfast Show. Nove is a narrator for Toby Groom's

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channel ''Epic History TV'' which began on 10 March 2015. Nove became a

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continuity announcer in August 2018 but left in March 2019, when he began presenting the weekday breakfast show on the national digital station Scala Radio, subsequently renamed Magic Classical.

References

External links

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Charles Nove's website
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