Radio Redhill has a successful night at the HBA Awards. This year’s awards were held on Leeds, and Radio Redhill received awards in no fewer than five categories. The major award this time was our entry for ‘Male Presenter of the Year,’ which won Radio Redhill presenter Dave Francis a Silver Award. Dave presents the weekday afternoon show as well as other programmes including his weekly Smooth 60, which features jazz, funk and soul every Monday evening.
The station received a Highly Commended award in the Special Event category for Irwyn Davies’s feature about the Bluebell Railway’s Southern at War event, and another in the Speech Package category for the report on the Variety Club Golf Day by Dave Francis.
Commended awards were won by the Redhill Country programme with Nigel Gray in the Specialised Music category and for our entry for Station of the Year.