A handful of highlights from a month of live radio presentation. This track includes interview snippets, witty and wordy cues, outside broadcasts – and a lot of lighter moments to boot. Enjoy a bacon-flavoured bite of Chris Philpot's breakfast radio show that woke up Surrey and Hampshire on Echo 87.7.

Echo Breakfast – Highlights Reel 2011

If your morning involves getting up at 7 o’clock with the aid of a grandé cup of coffee, just imagine how you'd feel getting up at 3am every single day. This is just a small part of the lives of the Benedictine monks who live at St. Michael’s Abbey in Farnborough. Their extremely early start is followed by a day of solemn prayer and solitude, following a rule dating back over 1,500 years. Back in March I was fortunate enough to gain an insight into their lives – and to savour the sound of silence, away from the trains and the traffic. Guided tours of the grounds run every Saturday and Bank Holiday at 3pm, with educational group visits possible by prior arrangement. For more information, visit: http://www.farnboroughabbey.org

Echo Breakfast – Live Local, Love Local at St. Michael’s Abbey

Unearthed from the digital archives! Echo Breakfast was my dissertation practical project, which meant I had to re-edit the audio for different academic uses. This is the longer highlights reel used as a preview / test cut for a presentation to my assessors and fellow students.

Echo Breakfast – Presentation Compilation

I'm Chris Philpot, simply 'Philpot' to most, and I'm a 21-year-old undergraduate from Great Britain. I'm studying for a degree in Media Production, a course which has offered me numerous opportunities including communicating with the community across Surrey and Hampshire in the UK on Echo 87.7. I've been involved with this annual month-long local radio station since 2009 and in December of that year I was named Station Manager.

Since March 2010, I also relished the challenge of presenting and producing the station's flagship breakfast show. Live from 7am 'til 10am every weekday morning, the programme featured topical interviews, outside broadcasts, and creatively produced packages on everything from banger racing to boules. You can sample a few of the highlights amongst my SoundCloud tracks.

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