- Clive Warren
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Not to be confused with Clive Owen.
Clive Warren is a British radio DJ. He has worked at several broadcasters and now presents on weekdays and Sundays for Metro Radio.
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Early career
His first experience of radio broadcasting came at Radio Moorfields, the hospital station at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, which broadcast from 1974 until 2006. From there he joined the first in-store radio station, Radio Top Shop, at Oxford Circus in London. He presented Children's ITV's summer mornings service in both 1989/90 & occasionally in the afternoons too, alongside fellow presenters: Jeanne Downs, Jerry Foulkes & Scally The Dog. Then he became a DJ again at London's Capital FM, where he presented a Saturday night show from 10pm-1am, before taking over the weekend early show & the overnight slot on Mondays & Tuesdays.
Radio 1
He joined BBC Radio 1 in November 1994, presenting the Weekend Breakfast Show. In October 1995, Clive became Chris Evans' warmup presenter as he took over the Weekday Early Breakfast show from 4-6.30am. Following on from Chris Moyles joining Radio 1 in July 1997, Clive took over the weekday overnight slot from 1-4am, this became 2-4am from October 1998. He remained on this slot until he left Radio 1 in September 2000.
While at Radio 1 he gave the first UK radio play to "Free as a Bird", the first single released by The Beatles for 25 years, and also deputised for Mark Goodier on the Top 40 show on several occasions.
Virgin Radio
In October 2000, Clive joined Virgin Radio, presenting a Sunday afternoon show from 1-4pm & in January 2001, he took over the Weekday late-night slot from Gary Davies, from 10pm-1am.
He left Virgin in January 2002 and returned to Capital FM presenting occasional overnight slots.
Real Radio & Jazz FM
In early 2003, Clive joined Real Radio Wales, where he presented the afternoon show and in March 2004, he joined London's 102.2 Jazz FM, presenting a Saturday morning show from 10am-2pm & the Weekday late night show from 9pm-Midnight. He remained here until October 2004.
Heart 106.2 & Reading 107
In early 2005, Clive joined London's Heart 106.2 as a stand in presenter, before taking over the Sunday mid-morning show from 9am-12noon.
In addition to that, in early 2006, he also joined Reading 107, as a presenter of their weekday drivetime show from 2-6pm. He remained here until late 2006.
Recent work
Clive then worked at 105.4 Century Radio in Manchester as the afternoon host. He broadcast the show every weekday from 1-4pm & also presented a Sunday show from 1pm-4pm. Clive left Century Radio (now Real Radio (North West)) in December 2008. Clive also covered Heart Sussex Drivetime in 2009.
Metro Radio
Clive joined Metro Radio, run by Bauer Radio, in Newcastle Upon Tyne on Monday 14 December 2009 taking over from Mark Thorburn between 10am-2pm weekdays. He also presents each Sunday between 10am-1pm.[1]
References
Categories:- British radio personalities
- British radio DJs
- Virgin Radio (UK)
- Living people
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