What is a dream? What is a dream?
A dream is a goal,
An inspiration,
A dream is where Hope lives
A dream is something to chase when life drags us down,
A dream is a song in the wilderness,
Good flowering from the mud of evil.
That is a dream.
Get yourself a dream,
Touch God and pray
And never, ever let your dream get away.
With you, my dearest, my dream is always near. Thank you very much.
4 years ago I had a vision, that vision was a dream but so real. I was 26 years old and life
as I knew it was evolving around. Community Radio was fairly new to me and all I knew of
Radio stations was the BBC National Stations and one local BBC Cornwall, there was also 2
local independent stations originally just the one. My skills were very unknown in the art
of media, yes like most of you I often pretended to be a Radio Presenter by making mix
tapes and passing them onto family members. But that was nothing like I was going to do. I
bumped into my old
school teacher (not old as in old but as in
Former) Alan Jones, now I often got on
quite well with Alan as he was often my
calling point in school when I felt low or
emotional. He was also just "cool" and often
"with it". That day Alan was going to
Falmouth to perform for 24 hours
performing live magic. He spoke of this radio station he was now at in Penzance, he
spoke of the passion and flavour that it had to offer, even though it was at the time
only an online radio station. I thought after that to listen
to this new exciting online
radio station, that station was
Penwith Radio. I listened to
Alan present his show and
very often Timothy Carr
presenting Tim's Mystery Year,
this was good as it showed a
lot of potential as a online
station. One day I decided to
stay listening and the show
after Alan was Dave Pascoe.
Dave had the local sounding
voice that you can tell where
he is from. That day I tuned in
as Dave was interviewing
Simon May. My presence was
known by then by all at the
station so Dave knew who I
was. I actively engaged in such
a way I felt I had to do more.
So after Dave had finished
his show I rang up Dave and asked if there was any way of me being involved, of which
he said yes. I originally was a Community Correspondent and my other role was Junior
Producer (Sidekick) to Dave and Alan on their shows to learn how to work the desk and
software, because Radio as I used to know it was records or tapes, but in this day of age it
is all MP3s and on hard drive. I then had the training behind me so I was given the role of
relief presenter I covered for Presenters who was ill or couldn't make their own show. I
first went on air solely to cover for George Care on Cosmopolitan Cornwall. I was then
given a 1 hour "Lunchtime Live" show in which I played requests and spoke of
community issues. For the next six months I did this, before going away on a sabbatical.This was the case for the next three years. The year is now 2014 and as this post is being posted the small community Radio Station in which I have been a big part of
is being launched onto FM on 96.5 & 97.2 I personally like to thank everyone at Penwith Radio for helping me.
community issues. For the next six months I did this, before going away on a sabbatical.This was the case for the next three years. The year is now 2014 and as this post is being posted the small community Radio Station in which I have been a big part of
is being launched onto FM on 96.5 & 97.2 I personally like to thank everyone at Penwith Radio for helping me.