life - WAVE 105
Q &A
Q: What was your first job?
Besides a Paper Round when
I was 11, my first real job was
working for French Railways in
London for the annual income of
£3,600.
Q: What was your first car?
TISWAS and Captain Pugwash.
Mark is on
weekday
afternoons from
one ‘til four. He
also presents
Saturday
Breakfast from
6am and “Kick
Up The 80’s”
- Sundays
4pm to 7pm
Q: Worst present:
Anything my Nan bought me
between 1973 and 1989
Q: What’s your worst habit?
That Nun’s costume that I won’t
part with!
Q: How do you spend
your leisure time?
We have a new puppy called
Taitti and I didn’t realise how
much time she’d take up.
A black Mini Metro which
worked perfectly until Lady
Lampton reversed into it in
Chelsea while I was at Stamford
Bridge watching Liverpool beat
Chelsea 2-0.
Q: What person you’d
most like to be trapped
in a lift with?
Stephen Fry. I love him even
though I’m heterosexual.
Q: What’s your most
favourite place in the world?
Q: What person would
India. I went there years ago and
fell in love with the place, the
people, the culture and the way
of life; in fact everything about
the place.
Mr Methane. I saw his act live
once. Very funny but must be
viewed in the open air.
Q: What’s your most
favourite place in the South?
I love living in West Sussex, I
think it’s one of England’s most
beautiful counties. On the Island
it has to be the countryside
between Smallbrook Jnc and
Wootton on the Isle of Wight
Steam Railway.
Q: What’s your most
favourite Song?
Depends on my mood.
Everything from Rock to
Atlantic Soul to Punk but I never
tire of Rockaway Beach by the
Ramones.
Q: What’s your most
favourite Film?
It’s between Spinal Tap, The
Usual Suspects, LA Confidential
and The Train (with Burt
Lancaster).
Q: What’s your most
favourite TV Show
as an adult?
Mock the Week, The Sopranos,
24 and of course Trainspotting.
Q: What’s your
most favourite TV
show as a child?
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you least like to be
trapped in a lift with?
Q: What cartoon character
Mark Collins - Wave 105
Mark Collins has been working in
radio for nearly 20 years now and
thinks he’s nearly got it right. It may
take a few more years of practice
though. He was brought up in the
West Country, living in Bath and
Keynsham but attended Wellington
School in Somerset when the punk
revolution exploded which ignited
his interest in music.
He began his working career as
a Travel Courier for French Travel
Service, taking British holidaymakers to various destinations
in France by train (another of
his passions), a thing he would
recommend to anyone wanting
to experience the university of
life. It was while he was making
announcements that the train guard
said to him that he should go and
work for the BBC, so he immediately
joined his local hospital radio
station and so began a career in
broadcasting.
Mark has worked at various radio
stations in the UK including Virgin
and Talksport, but he has found
his niche at Wave 105 with the
afternoon show with which he has
become synonymous.
As mentioned earlier, Mark has
an unhealthy interest in Railways
and was asked to present two series
of Trainspotting for the Discovery
Home & Leisure Channel which
he describes as the second most
enjoyable way of making money!
Keep listening for details of his own
chat show 3 nights a week on BBC1.
(In his dreams – Ed).
He’s even done a bit of stand-up as
well at various comedy clubs writing
all his own material which cannot
be reproduced here because of this
country’s obscenity laws!
So what makes our hero tick?
He loves Liverpool FC, red wine,
very loud music, e-bay, sunshine,
collecting railway and pop
memorabilia, his jukebox, his
friends, his Vespa, laurel & Hardy,
holidays, meeting people, puppies
and kittens and wants world peace.
He has no time for Japan (the
group) and Ace of Base, people who
don’t make their children wear
seatbelts, cloves, horror films, flies
and Robbie Savage.
Mark lives in West Sussex with his
wife Jane and his girls Phoebe and
Evangeline.
Email Mark: [email protected]
do you most associate
yourself with?
Homer Simpson. Underachiever
but proud father.
Q: What’s the most
embarrassing thing that’s
ever happened to you?
1. When I got so drunk I urinated
in my wife’s shoes...or
2. On one of the firsts dates with
my (now) wife. I met her friends
at the cinema after drinking
vodka all day at the Polish
Embassy and proceeded to snore
loudly in the cinema during a
pretentious arty film.
Q: What’s the funniest thing
that’s ever happened to you?
Leaving Brighton on a train and
falling asleep (due to the demon
drink again!) and waking up...
back in Brighton again having
gone all the way to London
and back without realising.
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