Malcolm Boyden
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Malcolm George Boyden is a double Sony award winning BBC
Local Radio Presenter, who currently presents the Breakfast Show on BBC Oxford
95.2fm as well as a Saturday show on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
. He won a Sony gold award in 1997 for Radio Personality of the Year, and followed that up in 2001 when he took a bronze award in the Broadcaster of the Year category.
indicator. He then went on to work as a sports sub-editor on the Daily Star and then sports editor of the Birmingham Daily News
.
He is a regular at the Hawthorns to watch his beloved West Bromwich Albion.
as a comentator on West Bromwich
Albion games.
He then started broadcasting on BBC WM
in the summer of 1993 presenting the Sunday Lunchtime show. In addition to that, in May 1994 he also took over Saturday Breakfast & later in 1994 was promoted to the Weekday Mid-Morning show from 10am-12midday, taking over from Gordon Astley
.
He then went on to present the lunchtime show from 12-2pm & then the afternoon show from 1-4pm until he was axed from the station in March 2004.
area, in October 2004, Boyden was poached by BBC Hereford & Worcester to present their Tuesday evening sports show from 7-9pm.
In addition to that, in May 2005 he also took over a Sunday morning show on the station from 9am-12midday.
.
, where he took over the evening show, from Daz Hale who had taken over the Breakfast show during the summer of that year.
He remained on the show until the Autumn of 2006 as Daz Hale returned to the slot upon the arrival of Phil Upton
on the stations Breakfast show. Although, Boyden has covered for various presenters on the station since then.
This was in addition to his weekend shows on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
& BBC Hereford & Worcester, although he did quit his Tuesday evening show on BBC Hereford & Worcester to take over the shows on BBC WM
.
in April 2008 initially as cover for other presenters, beginning his regular slot as the weekday breakfast presenter (7am-10am) in the autumn of the same year.
As an experienced sports journalist Boyden gained considerable support for his I Believe campaign during the 2008/9 season and made a personal appearance at the U’s ground to hand out car stickers to fans.
.
He lives in Bromsgrove with his wife Maxine and their two sons Elliott (born 25 January 1998) and Oliver (born 31 August 2001).
Malcolm is an ardent West Bromwich Albion Supporter (often referred to as Boing, Boing Boyden) and also follows Oxford United due to his work with the local radio station.
following his team West Brom, came out the same year. Malcolm’s third book, Ferrets, Faggots and Elvis, focussing on the eccentric folk of the West Midlands, was published in 2005. His latest book, The Greatest Podcasting Tips in the World appeared in August 2007.
Malcolm has become a pantomime regular making his debut in 1997 when he played alongside Frank Bruno and Karl Howman in Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Birmingham’s Hippodrome Theatre. Malcolm became a pantomime dame, in 2000 when he took on the role of Mother Goose at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre. In 2002, he teamed up again with Frank Bruno as Gertie the Queen of the Circus in Goldilocks at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. In 2003-04 he returned to the Birmingham Hippodrome when he appeared with Julian Clary in Cinderella.
In 2006 and 2007 he appeared at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre. In 2008 / 09 he was in Lichfield again with Dick Whittington. Malcolm has also appeared with the Birmingham Royal Ballet; he performed the role of the Magician’s Assistant in David Bintley’s The Cracked Nut.
still has him on the back of her bedroom door.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Local Radio Presenter, who currently presents the Breakfast Show on BBC Oxford
BBC Oxford
BBC Oxford is the name given to the sub-opt out region serving Oxford and the surrounding areas. Its services include:*BBC Oxford News, the local news service called BBC Oxford on screen...
95.2fm as well as a Saturday show on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire is the BBC Local Radio service serving the City of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire. It broadcasts on 94.8, 103.7 and 104 MHz FM, DAB Digital Radio and is streamed on the internet via the ....
. He won a Sony gold award in 1997 for Radio Personality of the Year, and followed that up in 2001 when he took a bronze award in the Broadcaster of the Year category.
Early career
Boyden began his career as a newspaper journalist for the RedditchRedditch
Redditch is a town and local government district in north-east Worcestershire, England, approximately south of Birmingham. The district had a population of 79,216 in 2005. In the 19th century it became the international centre for the needle and fishing tackle industry...
indicator. He then went on to work as a sports sub-editor on the Daily Star and then sports editor of the Birmingham Daily News
Birmingham Daily News
The Birmingham Daily News was Europe's first free daily newspaper, launched in Birmingham, England in 1984.The paper was created by local entrepreneurs Chris and Pat Bullivant and was edited by David Scott, but was later bought by media giant Reed Elsevier...
.
He is a regular at the Hawthorns to watch his beloved West Bromwich Albion.
Broadcasting career
He first started broadcasting on Beacon Radio in WolverhamptonWolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...
as a comentator on West Bromwich
West Bromwich
West Bromwich is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England. It is north west of Birmingham lying on the A41 London-to-Birkenhead road. West Bromwich is part of the Black Country...
Albion games.
He then started broadcasting on BBC WM
BBC WM
BBC WM is the BBC Local Radio service for the West Midlands, South Staffordshire, north Worcestershire and north Warwickshire, operated by BBC Birmingham. Launched on 9 November 1970 as BBC Radio Birmingham, it broadcasts from central Birmingham on 95.6 FM, DAB and on the internet...
in the summer of 1993 presenting the Sunday Lunchtime show. In addition to that, in May 1994 he also took over Saturday Breakfast & later in 1994 was promoted to the Weekday Mid-Morning show from 10am-12midday, taking over from Gordon Astley
Gordon Astley
Gordon Astley was a presenter on BBC Southern Counties Radio until 9 Feb 2009.He was also presenter on the final series of the children's show Tiswas in 1982 alongside Sally James...
.
He then went on to present the lunchtime show from 12-2pm & then the afternoon show from 1-4pm until he was axed from the station in March 2004.
BBC Hereford & Worcester
After 6 months in the wilderness, freelancing on various commercial stations around the BirminghamBirmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
area, in October 2004, Boyden was poached by BBC Hereford & Worcester to present their Tuesday evening sports show from 7-9pm.
In addition to that, in May 2005 he also took over a Sunday morning show on the station from 9am-12midday.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
In addition to his regular stints on BBC Hereford & Worcester, in late 2005, Boyden also took over Saturday Breakfast on BBC Coventry & WarwickshireBBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire is the BBC Local Radio service serving the City of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire. It broadcasts on 94.8, 103.7 and 104 MHz FM, DAB Digital Radio and is streamed on the internet via the ....
.
Back to Brum
In the summer of 2006, Boyden made a brief return to BBC WMBBC WM
BBC WM is the BBC Local Radio service for the West Midlands, South Staffordshire, north Worcestershire and north Warwickshire, operated by BBC Birmingham. Launched on 9 November 1970 as BBC Radio Birmingham, it broadcasts from central Birmingham on 95.6 FM, DAB and on the internet...
, where he took over the evening show, from Daz Hale who had taken over the Breakfast show during the summer of that year.
He remained on the show until the Autumn of 2006 as Daz Hale returned to the slot upon the arrival of Phil Upton
Phil Upton
Phil Upton is a British radio presenter in the West Midlands region.-Early life:Born the same day as David Cameron, he attended King's Norton Boys' School in Cotteridge from 1978-85....
on the stations Breakfast show. Although, Boyden has covered for various presenters on the station since then.
This was in addition to his weekend shows on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire is the BBC Local Radio service serving the City of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire. It broadcasts on 94.8, 103.7 and 104 MHz FM, DAB Digital Radio and is streamed on the internet via the ....
& BBC Hereford & Worcester, although he did quit his Tuesday evening show on BBC Hereford & Worcester to take over the shows on BBC WM
BBC WM
BBC WM is the BBC Local Radio service for the West Midlands, South Staffordshire, north Worcestershire and north Warwickshire, operated by BBC Birmingham. Launched on 9 November 1970 as BBC Radio Birmingham, it broadcasts from central Birmingham on 95.6 FM, DAB and on the internet...
.
BBC Oxford
Boyden joined BBC OxfordBBC Oxford
BBC Oxford is the name given to the sub-opt out region serving Oxford and the surrounding areas. Its services include:*BBC Oxford News, the local news service called BBC Oxford on screen...
in April 2008 initially as cover for other presenters, beginning his regular slot as the weekday breakfast presenter (7am-10am) in the autumn of the same year.
As an experienced sports journalist Boyden gained considerable support for his I Believe campaign during the 2008/9 season and made a personal appearance at the U’s ground to hand out car stickers to fans.
Current work
Malcolm swapped the Breakfast show for the 10.00-13.00 show on 95.2fm, Boyden is still heard on the radio every weekend, now presenting a Saturday mid-morning Show from 9am-12noon on BBC Coventry & WarwickshireBBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Coventry and Warwickshire is the BBC Local Radio service serving the City of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire. It broadcasts on 94.8, 103.7 and 104 MHz FM, DAB Digital Radio and is streamed on the internet via the ....
.
He lives in Bromsgrove with his wife Maxine and their two sons Elliott (born 25 January 1998) and Oliver (born 31 August 2001).
Malcolm is an ardent West Bromwich Albion Supporter (often referred to as Boing, Boing Boyden) and also follows Oxford United due to his work with the local radio station.
Other work
Boyden has also published a number of books: his debut novel, Perfect, was published in 2003. Brum’s The Word, a book made up of his football columns in The TimesThe Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
following his team West Brom, came out the same year. Malcolm’s third book, Ferrets, Faggots and Elvis, focussing on the eccentric folk of the West Midlands, was published in 2005. His latest book, The Greatest Podcasting Tips in the World appeared in August 2007.
Malcolm has become a pantomime regular making his debut in 1997 when he played alongside Frank Bruno and Karl Howman in Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Birmingham’s Hippodrome Theatre. Malcolm became a pantomime dame, in 2000 when he took on the role of Mother Goose at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre. In 2002, he teamed up again with Frank Bruno as Gertie the Queen of the Circus in Goldilocks at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. In 2003-04 he returned to the Birmingham Hippodrome when he appeared with Julian Clary in Cinderella.
In 2006 and 2007 he appeared at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre. In 2008 / 09 he was in Lichfield again with Dick Whittington. Malcolm has also appeared with the Birmingham Royal Ballet; he performed the role of the Magician’s Assistant in David Bintley’s The Cracked Nut.
Trivia
The Birmingham-based Sunday Mercury once did a special “supplement” containing a life-size full colour pullout picture of Malcolm, which readers could assemble from five different pieces. One lady in Perry BarrPerry Barr
Perry Barr is an inner-city area in north Birmingham, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller Perry Barr ward and the wards of Handsworth Wood, Lozells and East Handsworth, and Oscott, which elect three councillors to...
still has him on the back of her bedroom door.