Salina McKenzie

Selina started working at TRE in 2011 when she joined Kenny Jones to Co Host the Weekend Show. This successful show is still running from 11am to 1pm every Sunday. Around 6 months later she was offered a one hour Saturday morning show which she called Lifestyles and after another 6 months this was moved to a daily slot from 1pm to 3pm. The show covers an Animal Feature, Cookery, Health, Gardening, Biography’s and much more. Some of her highlights were interviewing Midge Ure, Kate Adie and of course Gilbert O Sullivan.
Selina has been in Spain for 7 years. Before moving here she was involved in Acting and Modelling in the UK. She also ran two businesses, one of which she is still a director and travelled all over the world as International Sales Director for a hotel company.
“I love working for Talk Radio Europe” Selina says “And I feel honoured to be part of the team. I hope my time here will be long and successful”

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Ron Jones

Rons love of radio and music came together for the first time at TRE, as previously he was a broadcasting virgin, but he now sees how all of his previous work experience was leading up to this point. Music on the radio has bossed his life since 1955 and broadcasting is the final item on his bucket list. Ron trained to teach junior school children at the now defunct institution which is a teachers training college in Liverpool, just around the corner from John Lennons House and Penny Lane. He then went on to teach in the city centre for 12 years and the leafy suburbs for 9 years. He ran a mobile disco formed cavern city tours, who now own and run The Cavern and Ron was a DJ booker and compere there for 10 years which was a life changing experience and for him and a dream fulfilled. Moving to Spain in 94, Ron was engaged as entertainment manager in a hotel complex in Calahonda Malaga until it failed to show profit! He then went back to teaching as head of the infant/ junior department in Calpe College San Pedro, where he waited for 10 years to move across the road to TRE. During which time he taught pupils privately and continued doing mobile DJ work for his increasingly wrinkly fan base. Quote by Ron Jones, ‘No one told me at school I’d have to wait till I was retired to be fulfilled and do something I love. The genial TRE staff have welcomed the new boy with understanding and tact."

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Rob Humphies

I'm very lucky to combine my twin loves of radio and music. I've been in radio for the last few years. My first production job was helping Hannah prepare her Saturday show. I gained some on-air experience with Barry Mitchell on his breakfast show. I produced and co-presented the Energy FM Breakfast Show, learning a lot from the bosses about how not to run a radio station. I was a producer and presenter at Spectrum FM for two years, learning a lot more. I worked in the management and marketing of the station as well and my hair started turning grey. I became a producer at TRE in the summer of 2012. I've produced Wake Up With Hannah since it started last October, making Hannah a nice cup of black coffee (one sugar) and doing bits and pieces on air. After 10am I run the production department. I'm really fortunate to work with such a great team at TRE: broadcasters, producers, sales and support staff. I also dj at weddings and parties on the Costa del Sol. It's a privilege to work with many different nationalities and an excuse to listen to a lot of music.

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Stephen Ritson

Educated in Spain and England, Stephen Ritson is the host of Europe Today, Talk Radio Europe's flagship current affairs programme. Since his first job as a diarist on the London Evening Standard, Stephen's media career has spanned print media, television and radio, both in the UK and Spain. He has also worked extensively as a translator and interpreter for organisations such as the Institute for Economic Affairs in the UK, The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute in the US and the Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales in Spain. Consummately bilingual, he has translated books by, among others, former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar and Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. An avid traveller, he has visited nearly three dozen countries in the past three years alone, providing his listeners with a unique personal insight into some of the key issues confronting the world today. Europe Today is broadcast live every weekday at noon from our studio in Cologne, within easy reach of the EU's key institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg and Frankfurt. The programme provides up to the minute breaking news from Europe and beyond as well as analysis of the motivations behind some of the most important stories in the world today. By referencing multiple sources and airing the opinions of a wide range of conflicting views, Europe Today aims to go beyond the traditional Western perspective of other mainstream media outlets. This research is complemented by a spectrum of correspondents and associates on location whenever and wherever a story breaks. Despite its name, Europe Today is not just about Europe. Rather, it provides listeners with a rounded view of the whole world from a European perspective, often covering important stories that its competitors have missed and explaining frequently complex issues in easy to understand plain English. Europe Today. Delivering your Right to Know.

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Richard Tildesley

Writer and former film and television producer, Richard is the presenter of the Talk Radio Sports Bar, an irreverent review of the week’s sporting action with guest panelists and the occasional high profile sporting interview. Richard started his career in radio back in 2001 as the host of OCI Radio’s Drive Time and was one of the original presenters when TRE first launched back in 2004. Richard has only recently returned to radio, having left TRE in 2005 to set up his own concert promotion company, where in the intervening years he promoted concerts by Joe Cocker, Madness, The Sugababes, George Benson and Earth, Wind & Fire to name but a few. A dedicated sports fan and keen cricketer who counts the time that the famous West Indian fast bowler, Malcom Marshall hit him for 3 sixes and 3 fours in one over as his most memorable moment on a cricket field. He is also a life long Wolves FC fan but until they’re back in the top flight of English football would prefer it if the listeners didn’t mention them too often! You can hear the Sports Bar every Friday at 7pm

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Pipa Jones

Pippa has been in producing and presenting her own programmes for 3 years but Talk Radio was always a medium that inspired her. In no small part because she questions and challenges everything, and her show, Radio Jones, on Talk Radio Europe allows her the opportunity to question guests and experts on an array of hard-hitting issues that otherwise she would not find the answers to. Pippa is passionate about challenging complacency and this is what drives her.

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Pancho Campo

Pancho Campo, a former tennis professional, is an expert in organizing events in sports, music, wine and the environment. In 1992 he participated in the Olympic Games of Barcelona. After retiring from tennis Pancho established his own event management company. He has produced concerts with Sting, Pink Floyd, Enrique Iglesias, Jamiroquai, Tom Jones and many other artists. He has also managed the Dubai Pro Beach Soccer Tour and the World Cup of Indoor Trials, as well as numerous tennis tournaments. He also worked with sports celebrities such as Andre Agassi, Eric Cantona, Stefan Edberg, Emilio Sánchez-Vicario and Dougie Lampkin, amongst others.

His long time passion for wine motivated him to found The Wine Academy of Spain in 2003. In 2008 he passed the prestigious Master of Wine examinations (currently not an active member of the IMW). In 2006, moved by his concern in for environmental issues, he founded the World Conference on Climate Change & Wine, featuring Al Gore and Kofi Annan as keynote speakers. In 2008 became Advisory Board Member of Vice president Al Gore´s The Climate Reality Project.

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Kit Hogg

I sometimes wonder where the time has gone, born 17th believe how long ago that is!) I have lived in Spain since 1998 and my wife, Pen, and I have adopted the same laid-back approach as the locals. We live in the pueblo of Gaucin in the Serrania de Ronda where we hold an annual music and performing arts festival ‘Hoggstock’ at our riverside finca. Our kids grew up here and we have made a lot of friends and employ local people. My Spanish dream was to arrange tours into the wilds of Spain on mountain bikes, but you fall back into what you know and what I know is tree surgery, having done this previously in Canada, California and England. Since 1998 I have been plying the Costa with The A Team (that’s what we call ourselves – ‘El Equipo A’), climbing, pruning and sometimes felling palms, pines and eucaluptus trees. I am also a singer with the 9 piece rock cabaret Biagra. So in answer to the question “Are you a tree surgeon?” “I am, but I am also an hotelier (In 2009, we opened Dar Gabriel, a boutique hotel in Chefchaouen, Morocco), actor, singer, event organiser, American Truck enthusiast, mountain biker, bull terrier aficionado and radio presenter (I began broadcasting ‘George and The Hogg’s Saturday magazine show with Phil George, on Talk Radio Europe in September 2013).
No wonder I’m exhausted! It must be my age!
“Booof”
“What was that?”
“That was your life mate“

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