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Stuart Linnell MBE, BA(Hons), HonMA is a UK radio and television broadcaster who is particularly well-known in the Coventry and Warwickshire area and also in Northamptonshire. He presents the daily (Monday-Friday) Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Northampton, having previously presented the station's lunch show.〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/northampton/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8356000/8356536.stm〕 Linnell also hosts the Sky Blues Live football show, and from time to time other shows, on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/coventry/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8340000/8340436.stm〕 He was part of the on-air team at the launch of Radio Hallam in Sheffield, was involved with Coventry based Mercia Sound for 15 years, and also previously presented the breakfast shows at both BBC Coventry & Warwickshire and BBC WM (which serves Birmingham and the wider West Midlands). ==Career== Stuart Linnell started his professional broadcasting career with BBC Radio Birmingham in 1970, moving to the UK's then developing commercial radio network with the launch of Radio Hallam in Sheffield in 1974. He spent six years at Radio Hallam as the station's Sports Editor, hosting all the station's main sports programmes and commentating on many major fixtures including football, cricket, boxing and speedway, and also snooker from the World Championship tournaments at the Crucible Theatre. He also presented other, non-sports shows at Radio Hallam, and during his time in Sheffield Linnell also appeared from time to time on the regional ITV station Yorkshire Television). In 1980 Stuart was part of the launch team at Coventry's Mercia Sound. He stayed at Mercia for 15 years, initially as Sports Editor, as in Sheffield hosting the station's sports programmes and commentating on various sporting fixtures. He was also the weekday afternoon show presenter, before going on to be Mercia's Managing Director and Programme Controller. In that time he also worked for BRMB in Birmingham, RAM FM in Derby and Leicester Sound. In 1995 he returned to the BBC to host radio and TV programmes in the Midlands, including the Breakfast Shows on BBC WM and BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. After some years freelancing for radio and TV stations broadcasting to the UK and to Ireland, and a short time with the ill-fated commercial radio group Laser Broadcasting, he returned to front-line presenting on BBC local radio in 2009. Since then he has presented programmes for BBC Radio Derby, BBC Oxford and BBC Hereford & Worcester, and he now hosts the weekday Breakfast Show for BBC Radio Northampton. He can also be heard regularly on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. On television Stuart has presented the Saturday evening edition of Midlands Today on BBC One and the Sunday lunchtime TV programme 'The Midlands At Westminster' on BBC Two (the forerunner to The Politics Show). He has worked for the UK national radio stations BBC Radio Five Live and TalkSport and for the Irish national commercial station Today FM. He has also been a reporter for the TV stations Sky Sports News and Setanta Sports. Stuart was made an MBE for services to broadcasting in 1995. He has won three Sony Radio Academy Awards - the most coveted awards in UK radio – one of them the Gold Award for the UK’s best speech-based Breakfast Show in 1997. His BBC WM Breakfast Show won Silver and Gold Sony's in successive years (1996 and 1997). He received gold and bronze awards at the International Radio Festival of New York for the programme formats of Mercia Sound and Leicester Sound and, in 1999, he received an Honorary MA from Coventry University in recognition of his work as a broadcaster and for his services to the community in Coventry and Warwickshire. At the end of 2007 he graduated with a BA Honours in Humanities with Literature after six years study with the Open University. In 2010, his Sunday Breakfast Show on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire received a Merit Award in the Sandford St Martin Trust Religious Radio Awards for a series called "Dear God" in which listeners were invited to send in their messages to God, some of which were broadcast on air. They ranged from the upbeat to the loneliness of bereavement and were pinned to a board displayed first at the radio station and later in Coventry Cathedral. Stuart's Sunday Breakfast Show was also a finalist in the 2012 Jerusalem Awards for its "Rev's Records" feature in which faith leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Coventry, chose some of their favourite music. Alongside his broadcasting career, Stuart is a conference moderator and facilitator and he also hosts awards events and black-tie functions. On 1 June 2007, Stuart was the MC for the unveiling of a statue of Sir Frank Whittle, the Coventry born jet pioneer, by Faith Winter. The statue is situated under the Whittle Arch, near to Coventry city centre. It was unveiled by his son, Ian Whittle. It shows Whittle at RAF Cranwell in May 1941 looking towards the sky to observe the first test flight of a Whittle-powered Gloster E.28/39. In 2008, Stuart stepped down after two years as Chairman of the Coventry Branch of the Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce. He is a former member of the Chamber's main board. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stuart Linnell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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