UK Radio Producer,
Based in Bristol
Listen .. : Fridays from 9pm Saturdays from 7pm
Born in Harrow at the same time Disco officially died, Toby grew up in a small house on Roxeth Hill.
At the age of 1 Toby moved to the Home Counties (not on his own obviously!) with the aid of his parents who were more suited to organising removal men and driving things around.
He grew up in Rickmansworth, where he attended primary school.
He met his first love at the age of 7, sadly this didn’t work out she was focused on growing up and completing the under 8s reading course and he was more interested in running around the school field and playing with micro machines.
At 11 Toby went to secondary school in Watford, where he met some good people and some complete reprobates. He settled on taking the reprobates as his friends and they spent most of the 7 years listening to music and copying each others homework. During this time Toby met his second love, sadly this didn’t work out she was focused on growing up and completing her studies and he was more interested in running around the school field and playing with micro machines
At 18 he went off to Bristol University where he foolishly thought a Physics degree would make him interesting and employable, he realised his error and changed to computer science after one year! This was thanks largely to his third true love, sadly that relationship didn’t work out she was focused on completing her degree and finding a job and he was more interested in running between the record shops of Bristol and playing these records in his bedroom.
In his second year at University he discovered the University radio station, and set about trying to take over, this took about 18 months, in which time he met his forth true love, she loved radio & music as well although sadly this didn’t work out she was focused on growing up and getting a job and he was more interested in running the student radio station and playing drinking games.
During this time a kindly production wizard named Russ called him and asked if he would like to come down the local radio station and help work on a show called 'Vibe Nation with Howard Ritchie'. By work he meant "learn without being paid". Toby was to learn that this 'work' was a very frequently used term in the radio industry
Since then the Wizard has departed to pastures new, and Toby took over producing the show, which then began a bizarre selection of name changes, he still does this every Friday & Saturday night; and much like the way all of Simon Bates 'Our Tunes' would end he would like you to play 'The Human League' - 'Don't you Want me baby' for the 4 women who are no doubt very bitter about having let him go!
