About Me

Fiona will be presenting a brand new show on Smooth Radio, 2pm to 5pm every Sunday afternoon from Easter Sunday.

We asked Fiona a few questions so you can get to know Smooth Radio's new presenter for Sunday Afternoons.

My radio career began... when I left The National Broadcasting School in London and went to work, for free(!), for Two Counties Radio in Bournemouth. I’d just finished training as a radio journalist and I spent weeks making tea for the presenters and grovelling around the news editor before they sent me out on my first story – Lollipop Lady of the Year!

When I’m not at work... I shout at the children and my husband, because I never sit down and they always find time to even if the house is a bombsite, which it usually is because they’re always sitting down.

Q&A

Favourites:

• Pastime...Sleeping, because I never get enough of it!
• Meal...It varies – I like Indian and Thai curries, Italian, my husband’s ‘special’ soup, even though I’m never quite sure what’s in it, and I adore potatoes: fried, chipped, boiled, baked, roasted, sauted, mashed, any way they come. Apparently my mum craved spuds when she was pregnant with me.
  
• Holiday destination...Italy – the culture, the food, football, wine and the people – it’s a magical mix.
  
• Childhood memory...They are all coloured by my mum’s big smile. She was always full of fun, and smothered me and my brothers with love.
  
• Film...The Godfather. I’ve got the trilogy on DVD, and I’m intending to clear the house of husband and children one Saturday and sit back with a bottle of champagne and a box of chocolates and watch the lot.
  
• Band/Artist...Paul Weller in all his different guises – The Jam, Style Council and as himself.
  
• Song...Coldplay’s Fix You
• Album...too hard to call, so it’s a sentimental choice and I’m going to say………. Donny Osmond’s A Portrait of Donny, the first album I ever bought, featuring Puppy Love, of course! I had it on cassette and went to sleep every night with it playing by my side back in 1972.
  
• Decade...The 70s

The track that sums me up...Louis Armstrong’s ‘Wonderful World’. Be positive, that’s what I say!

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