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And you can catch Paul Jenner, live and in person, when he makes the following guest appearances at his fabulous "Quiz Night":
♣ Every Wednesday 8.45pm, The Railway Hotel - Buxton
♣ Sunday 8th August 8.45pm, The Chieftain - Hadfield, then alternate Sundays after that
♣ Saturday 28th August, Post-Dove Holes Carnival Celebration Night, "Oldies Disco", The Wheatsheaf - Dove Holes
♣ Wednesday 29th September 8pm to midnight, Freshers 70s and 80s Retro Night, Spa Bar - Buxton
Meet the team
Click on a presenter below to view more information about them
Paul Jenner
Paul Jenner is a founding director of High Peak Radio. The day-to-day manager of the station, and previously a "live" disc jockey, he's worked on a number of stations throughout the Midlands and the North West since 1993. Along with his brother Steve, he was the brains behind the trial radio services in the High Peak which started in 1999 and the making of High Peak Radio Ltd.
Despite an enthusiasm for fine food and drink, Paul refuses to give in, and his repeated health kicks, running regimes, half-day diets and occasional ill-advised football comebacks are the stuff of legend. He can often be seen at the Silverlands on a Saturday afternoon, shouting a variety of non-PC pieces of advice to visiting referees.
Sherri Clarke
Sherri "as in the drink" Clarke is sales executive with High Peak Radio. The female foil to Paul's more rugged charms (and that, Paul, will cost you a fiver), she seems trapped in an extended blonde moment which means her quotes are legendary. Quite possibly the nicest human being you are ever likely to meet, she will believe absolutely anything you tell her and never thinks or speaks ill of anyone. Which means loads of fun and no revenge!
Fiercely proud of her native Glossop, despite certain cat person type tendencies, she spends a lot of her time worrying about dogs, and a "lost dog" call to the station when she's in the office can lead to her insisting on all programmes being cancelled until the pooch in question is found.
Ben Price
Ben Price joined High Peak Radio in 2007 and is the station's News Editor – responsible for the station's news output. Ben also presents Open Air, 10am – 1pm weekdays, which is an extremely popular magazine show.
As local football fans will know, Ben also presents the hugely-popular Wednesday evening show Football Fantime during the footy season and is the voice – along with Norman Taylor – of our live football commentaries, including Glossop North End’s amazing trip to Wembley. Ben organises the High Peak Cup – a pre-season football tournament between the area’s 4 most prominent clubs.
Leighton Morris
Leighton Morris has been waking up "High Peakers" since the first day of broadcast in April 2004. His bright and cheerful weekday Breakfast show is the station’s "flagship" programme, generating an enormous number of calls to the station every day. He also presents the Friday evening show on Ashbourne Radio.
Leighton loves to get out and about and can be often seen at outside broadcasts; he particularly loves the Christmas lights switch-ons.
He is the station's Head of Music and Presentation. He previously worked for Radio Mansfield and Century 106 where has was known as "the Buzzard". He was one of the presenters who worked on the Radio Buxton broadcasts during the previous century, which led to the formation of High Peak Radio. He leaps out of bed at 4 o clock each morning - and twice a week asks himself why, as he has weekends off.
He loves America, and visits the country whenever he can. His ambition is "one day" to work in radio across the Atlantic. But hopefully not for a while yet!
Norman Taylor
Norman Taylor is, simply, a legend. An ex-footplateman on steam engines, young Norman set up Buxton Running Club, coached numerous local athletes to international standard, and became a sports reporter on the Matlock Mercury. Now he is the undisputed "Voice of Sport" on High Peak Radio.
Every week, Norman will visit a variety of places throughout the High Peak to interview guests and every Saturday he can be found in a muddy field somewhere in the High Peak, celebrating the triumph, heroism and comedy of local sporting life.
Being interviewed by Norman is like nothing else on the radio. Anywhere. He manages to combine knowledge of his subject with massive enthusiasm and a strong sense of the ridiculous which we would like to assure you is intentional. We think.
Norman is a committed non-driver and travels to most of the venues he visits by bus. He has been known to edit the interviews on the bus afterwards on his recorder. Yes, we know this looks a little odd but could we make a public plea for bus companies not to throw him off before he reaches his destination?
Norman was awarded the High Peak services to sport award in 2008
Holly Knebel
A highly-talented young journalist, the lovely Holly Knebel investigates, writes and presents your local news along with editor Ben Price every day. Her infectious bubbly personality has led to her also presenting shows when Ben takes a well-earned holiday from the Open Air show – a task which she has taken to like a fish to water.
Holly’s shift often starts at around 6am when you and I are yet to hit the snooze button!
Simon Paul
A well-known local DJ, Simon Paul has worked many of the clubs and pubs of the North West and Midlands. He studied Performing Arts (Drama and Music) but decided to stay on the musical side and enjoys playing his drum kit. When the neighbours are out.
He says: “I’ll try my hand at acting when I grow up. Maybe.”
Having previously worked at Manchester’s KEY103, Simon returned to the High Peak to help with early trial broadcasts from Buxton in 1999. He now keeps us entertained overnight on weekdays from midnight till 6am.
David Heathcote
David Heathcote presents The Weekend Night Shift, the overnight show at weekends. Another stalwart of the trial broadcasts, his quips and unusual observations have enlivened many a nocturnal weekend across the High Peak. He produces a "Thought for Sunday" at around 6.30am.
A long-time friend and associate of the Jenner brothers, David does some of the trickier support work for the station – for example, editing this website. He also works for ITV Central as a journalist.
Previously a deputy head teacher, David doesn't get angry with the rest of the team, but he can be "very, very disappointed" with them.
Mark Atherton
Mark Atherton is one of the most travelled and experienced radio presenters in the Midlands. As well as once running his own station in his native Chesterfield, he has presented on Loughborough's Oak FM and Burton's Touch (then Centre FM) amongst others.
He now presents the Saturday afternoon sport programme along with the legendary Norman Taylor and has much to do juggling Norman’s reports "from somewhere cold and wet in the High Peak" along with the premiership reports, local results and reports, interviews and music.
Mark provides short-notice cover on a variety of our programmes beside his own. A sort of "Batman" of the radio presenting world.
Barry Jarvis
Barry Jarvis presents the Sunday Weekend Wake-up (or as he prefers to call it, the BIG Weekend Show). His main feature has the High Peak consulting Google, maps, friends, neighbours and elderly relatives to discover this week's location for "Road to the Roast". The promise of a free Sunday lunch for four at one of the High Peak's eateries means Barry and his "angels" are kept busy on the phones.
Barry has worked on several Midland radio stations and was involved in the early trial broadcasts for High Peak Radio. His studio was struck by lightning in the very first programme but he still managed to be back on air in 45 seconds.
Barry is still a very busy and popular live DJ in venues around the UK including a riverboat of all things. He previously toured with the top 70s show Disco Inferno for nearly 5 years. He runs his own production company, Everest Productions, and owns his own recording studio.
Steve Jenner
Steve Jenner is a founding director of the station and along with brother Paul masterminded the trial broadcasts which started in 1999 and the putting together of the company High Peak Radio Ltd. He has presented the weekday Afternoon programme from 1 until 4pm since the station began in April 2004. He read the opening message on the station and formerly presented the Saturday afternoon sports programme, which is now presented by Mark Atherton and Norman Taylor. He commentated on the first football outside broadcast the station presented, from the Silverlands.
He also works for the Plain English Campaign in New Mills as a media consultant ,and as such has appeared on most BBC local stations up and down the country as well as BBC Radio 4 and 5, and counts BBC 2, ITV, BBC 24, Sky News and CNN amongst his screen credits.
As well as presenting the Afternoon programme on High Peak Radio, he presents the weekday breakfast show on Ashbourne Radio. He likes really dangerous real ale – you know, the black stuff with a weird name and lumps in it, chips and gravy, reads more than is normal for any human being, is stuffed full of useless information about obscure and ancient hit records, has the loudest mobile phone in the world and wastes huge amounts of staff time asking people to help him find his glasses. He has an ambition to present a programme live from on-board his narrowboat from Whaley Bridge basin, or maybe Bugsworth.
Helen Mason
Helen Mason is another presenter who has been with the station since it began broadcasting in April 2004. She, too, was one of the main presenters on the trial broadcast going back to 1999. She presents Drive – and Late Drive – from 4pm until 9pm every weekday and works hard to bring the news of what is happening on the roads to our listeners at one of the busiest times of day.
A home-grown talent, she has been a DJ for most of her working life, having run a successful Buxton-based disco roadshow for a number of years until hanging up the double decks for a life in the radio studio.
Another cat person, she'd actually like to be one given the choice. Either that or Jennifer Aniston, for some reason. Another presenter with acting skills, she also teaches media students at University level.
She is generally regarded as one of the finest "voices" on the station and it will probably come as no surprise to hear that she is a highly successful voiceover artist in her own right, her voice turning up on a number of adverts heard across the rest of the country. She divides the rest of her time between thinking of ever more demanding "true or false" riddles and trying to domesticate the rest of the staff.
Chris Carnegy
Chris Carnegy is the presenter of High Peak Radio's night time secret weapon Love Town. This mix of Chris' soothing tones and the best love songs in the world means the show is hugely popular, errrm… nocturnal entertainment.
Chris was a founding director at Sony Award Winning Spire FM in Salisbury. He has also worked for the BBC World Service amongst other BBC roles. Chris also presents on Ashbourne Radio.
Already an accomplished yachtsman, he's now learnt how to fly. Given the fact that he recently blew his car engine by forgetting to put any engine oil in it, ever, we’re all learning how to duck.
Roger Price
Roger Price is the Company Secretary and Technical Director for High Peak Radio. He occasionally presents shows on the station, particularly over Christmas when he actually gets to work with Santa, and also sometimes reads the news along with hosting his own show on Sunday afternoons on Ashbourne Radio.
Formerly a founding director of Stratford-on-Avon station The Bear, he has worked on and with various radio stations throughout the UK and has recently done important development work with the RadioCentre.
He was responsible for finding a way of solving the problem of how to broadcast right the way across the High Peak on FM, and it is largely down to him that this is now the case. He still maintains the broadcasting structure of the station and produced the technical set-up for Ashbourne Radio.
(Romantic though this may sound, what it actually means is spending a lot of your time in the mud in Wellington boots.) Roger may only be heard occasionally on the radio but his influence in terms of how the station sounds and the fact that it can be heard at all is everywhere
Craig Pattison
Craig Pattison is, along with Mark Atherton, our "Batman" presenter. He can present virtually every show on the station and sometimes has to do so at short notice!
He presents Saturday's Weekend Wake Up, has his own midday show on Sundays and also appears at many of our outside broadcast events, either at the venue or in the studio. He used to work on Chesterfield's commercial radio station, Peak FM.
Lissa Cook
Lissa Cook is a valuable member of the news team and is often referred to as our Chinley Correspondent - she just loves the place. Lissa has in the past worked at the BBC as a senior producer.
Her first job of any shift at High Peak Radio is to put the kettle on, so the rest of the staff await her arrival at the studios with barely-concealed excitement.
Tom Hilton
Tom Hilton is a treasured* asset in our freelance journalist squad. He's also a familiar voice on High Peak Radio's sports broadcasts, stepping in when Ben takes a break.
However, when asked if he enjoys football, Tom says: "No, I'm a Sheffield Wednesday supporter."
(*We occasionally try to bury him.)
Rich Clarke and Kat Shoob
The highly popular Big Top 40 show is presented by Rich and Kat - whose chemistry has people tuning in in their droves.