Chart Show Highlights from our first full month of May! Including Numi's bday celebrations, Alex's Tinder trials, and our first ever new Number 1 on the Kent Top 40.

Kent Top 40 Highlights May 2021 - with Numi Gildert

Highlights of our Reprezent cover shows from March to July 2021, featuring a horrendously naive take on June 21st, What's In The Bin, Dr. Numi, and a hint at what's to come in the future.

Reprezent Highlights - with Numi Gildert and Tobi Oshilaja

Chart Show Highlights from June! Including Alex's bday celebrations and Numi's least favourite misheard lyric.

Kent Top 40 Highlights June 2021 - with Numi Gildert

Highlights from October to December 2021 of the Kent Top 40 on KMFM.

Kent Top 40 Highlights Winter 2021 - with Numi Gildert

Numi Gildert's best invention - the latest Radio 1 stream: R1 DUNCE

BBC Radio 1 | R1 DUNCE - with Numi Gildert

Highlights from our 9 early breakfast shows on Radio 1 in August 2021!

BBC Radio 1 Early Breakfast Highlights August 2021 - with Numi Gildert

In conversation with BBC Radio 5 Live's Dotun Adebayo, reviewing the day's newspaper headlines. Including:
 - The newly announced mask regulations in public places (Daily Star, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express)
 - A potential second wave of Coronavirus in Winter (The Guardian)
 - The Polish Presidential election (Financial Times)
 - Manchester City's successful appeal against their two-year Champions League ban (BBC Sport, Metro, The Times, Daily Express)

BBC Radio 5 Live - First Look at the Papers 14/07/2020

In conversation with BBC Radio 5 Live's Dotun Adebayo, reviewing the day's newspaper headlines. Includes:
 - Russian interference in the Scottish #IndyRef (Daily Telegraph)
 - A potential coronavirus vaccine development (Daily Mail, The Guardian) 
 - RBS announcing to staff that they wouldn't be returning to office-based working until 2021 at the earliest. (Financial Times)

BBC Radio 5 Live - First Look at the Papers 21/07/2020

In conversation with BBC Radio 5 Live's Dotun Adebayo, reviewing the day's newspaper headlines. Includes:
 - The economic recovery and the Bank of England (Daily Express, The Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC News)
 - Warnings from doctors that the NHS cannot compromise its other services in a second wave of coronavirus (The Guardian)
 - Ofqual announcing a change to the A Level appeals processes after (Daily Telegraph, The Times)
 - The negotiations for the purchase of TikTok's global operations by Microsoft (Financial Times, The Times)

BBC Radio 5 Live - First Look at the Papers 07/08/2020

In conversation with BBC Radio 5 Live's Dotun Adebayo, reviewing the day's newspaper headlines, focussing on the government response to Extinction Rebellion protests which shut down print presses.

BBC Radio 5 Live - First Look At The Papers 07/09/2020

This is some of my “best” bits from my first ever show on Absolute Radio.

Absolute Radio Show Highlights 12/09/2020

In conversation with BBC Radio 5 Live's Dotun Adebayo, reviewing the day's newspaper headlines, focussing on the government's plans for Winter, the climate crisis, and Marcus Rashford's free school meals campaign.

BBC Radio 5 Live - First Look At The Papers 28/10/2020

Our demo for Best Music Show/Presenter for the Student Radio Awards 2020, using material taken from our SRA Chart Show. We ranked silver! Here's our written entry:

Hi! We’re Alex and Numi. We’re submitting this entry together, because whilst we haven’t been teamed up for long, we’ve had so much fun presenting as a pair, and we’d love to show you what we can do.

Numi (the PhD student grandma of the pair) has been on URY for 6 years, and has previously been nominated for Best Female, Best Technical Achievement and Best Entertainment Show; meanwhile Alex was this year’s winner of Demo Factor, and was nominated for Best Newcomer and Best Multiplatform Initiative in the past, as well as producing the winning Chart Show last year. We’ve both helped out with the station as a whole over our time at York; Numi was Programme Controller for 4 years, and Alex was Station Manager for 2018/19 - but this year we wanted to focus more on presenting, as it was our last year on student radio. 

During Freshers’ Week, we led URY’s coverage of move in days, and discovered that we have a natural balance: Numi brings experience, passion and a sense of humour, Alex is the youthful, naïve younger brother, with a well rounded knowledge of music [0:29] making up for the fact that he’s unwilling (or more accurately unable) to cut his own hair [2:19].

We also aren’t afraid to laugh at ourselves, or each other [0:00], and get out of our comfort zones on air - whether that’s by challenging each other to sing [6:01], or to dance on stage in front of an audience. This last year, we wanted to branch out and host bigger events, so we teamed up with our Students’ Union to host some of their marquee events, including the first edition of York’s Got Talent (spoiler: it doesn’t), and the more serious Election Results Night, where we had the enviable task of dishing out 5 minimum wage jobs.

We didn’t let lockdown stop us, as we continued presenting together, setting up our own home studios, and using voice calls to record and edit together studio quality packages - we voiced the entirety of the YUSU Awards season; four digital ceremonies, from the Love York Awards celebrating student groups, to the Excellence Awards focussing on academic staff. During that time we also worked together on this, the SRA Chart Big 100, which the entirety of this demo was taken from. We had a ball presenting this show, because it stretched us to pack everything we could do into two hours, from interaction with callers [4:47] to more serious moments like discussing the statement Billie Eilish had released in the week of the show. [3:02]

We’re just sad that our time at University has come to an end, and we might not present together on radio again - but the good news is we’re both moving to London, so we’ve got some plans to keep working together on a few projects - and can’t wait to get started again!

Best Music Demo, Student Radio Awards 2020 - with Numi Gildert

Our demo for Best SRA Chart for the Student Radio Awards 2020. We won Gold!

Best SRA Chart, Student Radio Awards 2020 - with Numi Gildert

Presenting the Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 on New Year's Day with one of my best mates Numi, after we won the Best Chart Show Award at the Student Radio Awards 2020. 

We made Chart history as Wham!'s Last Christmas, previously the best selling song never to be Number 1 was announced as the first chart topper of 2021. In doing so after a 36 year wait, it became the record holder for the track which took the longest time to reach Number 1.

BBC Radio 1 Official Chart Show Highlights 01/01/2021 - with Numi Gildert

Multimedia presenter, host and voiceover artist based in London.

As heard on BBC Radio 1, Absolute Radio, BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 5 Live, KMFM, BBC Radio Berkshire, and Reprezent.

Interested in music, news, and sports coverage.

Alex West

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