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π₯ Young Person of the Year ~ Community Radio Awards 2025 π» Content Manager at Portsmouthβs Express FM ~ @expressfm.com π» Freelancing at BBC Radio Solent πΊ Inside Our Autistic Minds on BBC iPlayer π§ Autistic & OCD π Voiceover π± harrisonrb.com
Thank you to The News π«Ά www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/express...
π Still in shock and so honoured to have picked up Gold for Young Person of the Year at the Community Radio Awards! π
A huge thank you to everyone whoβs supported me, and what a privilege to be presented with a trophy by the iconic @stephaniehirst.bsky.social! π«Ά
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π€ A massive thank you to the judges for this incredible recognition! Whatever happens next, being nominated is an honour in itself!
π» Radio has been one of the most important parts of my life for well over a decade - in fact, for more than half of my fewer than 25 years on this earth. To have that passion recognised at this level is something Iβll never forget.
π Absolutely buzzing to share that Iβve been nominated for Young Person of the Year at the UK Community Radio Awards 2025! #CRAs2025
π» This will not affect my existing commitments at @expressfm.com - I am proud and grateful to have the continued support of my second family in Pompey!
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π Despite my commercial and community radio background, working for our national broadcaster - one of the UKβs and the worldβs most respected institutions - is an enormous privilege and I canβt wait to get started!
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π¨ I am SUPER excited to be joining the team at BBC Radio Solent and start freelancing from next month!
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If it wasnβt against Ofcom rules to not clearly distinguish between editorial and commercial content, Iβd stick Steveβs Lava Chicken in an ad break - then wait for presenters and sales to ask A) who signed off on it and B) what the hell itβs supposed to be advertising.
Awesome time representing @expressfm.com at the @radioacademy.bsky.social #UKARIAS! And great to run into legends as well as friends across the industry! π€
Congrats to @forth1official.bsky.social and all the winners! We come away with our heads held high as one of the UKβs top six local stations! π
Enjoying this yearβs #UKARIAS with the @expressfm.com team! @radioacademy.bsky.social
Delighted to be teaming up with our friends at Pompey Poetry Party again (following last yearβs D-Day 80 commemorations) for the 80th anniversary of VE Day next week. Thanks to Caroline and the team for making this possible. @expressfm.com www.expressfm.com/news/updates...
One of the funniest things ever to happen during my time working in radioβ¦
After a presenter mistakenly imported SFX to the music database, βSingle Hawk Screech by The Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Libraryβ was recorded by Radiomonitor as our 9th most-played song of the week.
A spontaneous trip to the Devon coast calls for a spontaneous steam-hauled charter - the inaugural passenger service for 5029 Nunney Castle (diesel-assisted due to the recent dry weather) in 10 years! Tackling the stormy conditions as it travels back to Taunton from Kingswear.
Lovely article from our partners at The News about @expressfm.comβs @radioacademy.bsky.social ARIAS nod. We look forward to flying the flag for community radio in London next month - alongside some excellent BBC & commercial stations, as one united industry. www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/express...
Busy week at @expressfm.com π
π The inaugural #PortsmouthMusicAwards - proud to be the media partner with full red carpet & backstage coverage π www.expressfm.com/news/updates...
βοΈ Live from the iconic Mary Rose Museum at #Portsmouth Historic Dockyard π www.expressfm.com/news/updates...
It hasnβt sunk in, and it wonβt - our little radio station alongside the BBC and Bauer at the Oscars of the radio industry. This team, this city, this station. Words cannot articulate how proud I am of each and every one of my colleagues who give their time to us for free. YOU are incredible!!! π
π§ You can listen back to Wednesdayβs special @expressfm.com programme, presented by me, for #WorldAutismAwarenessDay here π www.mixcloud.com/HarrisonRBRa...
π§ 1pm | @expressfm.com π
π Too High To Function author and Pompey Poetry Party member Charlotte Faulconbridge
πΊ Contributions from Flo & Murray as seen on BBC Twoβs Inside Our Autistic Minds
π€ Cheryl from @autismhampshire.bsky.social
π§ expressfm.com/player
#actuallyautistic #autistic #autism
π§ Delighted to be presenting a special @expressfm.com show next week for World #Autism Awareness Day!
π Guests are author Charlotte Faulconbridge, contributions from Flo & Murray (seen on BBC Twoβs Inside Our Autistic Minds) & Cheryl from @autismhampshire.bsky.social.
π» This Wednesday | 1pm-3pm
π¨π¨ Whatβs your favourite biscuit happening now on 5 Live π¨π¨ @mattchorley.bsky.social
Did I hear @iaindale.bsky.social appeal for new @lbc.co.uk jingles? That just wouldnβt feel rightβ¦ but then again 5 Live had to lose this at some point! π m.youtube.com/watch?v=OlnL...
Watching the right tear themselves apart over Farage vs Lowe - including prominent talk show hosts & journalists who donβt know which bandwagon to jump on - is very entertaining.
Iβm no fan of either, but Lowe is the fringe element - a nobody to most outside the X-sphere. Choose your battles.
Leader of the Free World and his current VP puppet (whoβll be stitched up and probably fired not before long) hounding the representative of every innocent life and community being destroyed by an evil dictator right in front of the worldβs media.
What a dark, dark, day for human civilisation.
Really excited to strengthen @expressfm.comβs partnership with #Portsmouth Pride and extend our weekly show for the local LGBTQIA+ community ahead of the city hosting UK Pride 2025 in June - including regular co-hosting by the organisationβs Co-Chair. www.expressfm.com/news/updates...
Great new monthly show from @expressfm.com currently on-air which delves into the history of Pompeyβs beloved Football Club, presented by lifelong fan and ex-BBC Radio Gloucestershire presenter Richard Atkins-Greig. Strengthening the solid partnership between Express and #Pompey History Society.
Today, the final radio shows were presented from Globalβs studios in Segensworth West.
Power FM and Ocean FM were the first stations I ever visited (in a pram). So, thatβs that.
She who must be obeyed and I had a wholesome first ever cat cafe experience yesterday. The only downside was not being able to take them all home π’
Hard to believe itβs been two years since #InsideOurAutisticMinds debuted on BBC Two. A lot has happened in that time but there has been no greater honour or privilege for me than to be Murrayβs voice. You can still watch on iPlayer. Real, heartfelt, emotional, influential.
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A quote in a local newspaper article from Harrison RB, Content Manager at Portsmouthβs Express FM. βHumans. Connection. Friendship. Itβs entertaining, itβs emotional; it makes you smile, it makes you sad; it makes you think, it makes you angry. Overall, radio makes you feel something. It also benefits from the fact itβs still very convenient for most people given it is often consumed in the background while doing other things, unlike other media that requires more from you.β
π» Happy #WorldRadioDay!
β€οΈ I never lose sight of the privilege it is to do what I do every day and have done (in one form or another) for more than a decade!
ποΈ Hereβs my full interview with a local newspaper last year: www.linkedin.com/pulse/interv...