Presenter profilesYou are in: Coventry and Warwickshire > Local Radio > Staff Profiles > Presenter profiles > Meet Tim Boswell  Wake up with Tim Meet Tim BoswellHe wakes you up in the morning with Marian McNamee - Find out about BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Breakfast Show presenter Tim Boswell... - Q: What's your name?
- A: Tim Boswell
- Q: From?
- A: Alcester, born in Stratford.
- Q: Star Sign?
- A: Capricorn.
- Q: Joined the Beeb in?
- A: 1993 first time, May 2005 for the second time.
- Q: What has your career involved so far?
- A: I joined the BBC in 1993, fresh from school (and with hair!), in an effort to gain work experience. I certainly achieved that – I stayed for three years! This was followed by stints in commercial radio as a Presenter, Reporter, News Editor, Programme Controller and Managing Director before coming back to the Beeb.
- Q: What does your job involve?
- A: Presenting the BBC Coventry & Warwickshire Breakfast Show with Marian McNamee.
- Q: What's your favourite place in Coventry and Warwickshire?
- A: You've got to go a long way to beat the view from the top of Lark Stoke. Plus, any pub on a cold day with a warm fire and a cold pint.
- Q: Who's your favourite person?
- A: Anyone who'll put up with me chatting away for any amount of time. And my family, who have no choice.
- Q: What's your favourite hobby?
- A: Watching football and cricket (though obviously not at the same time), cycling, buying new gadgets and have recently shocked myself by taking up running. I previously couldn't even run a bath.
- Q: Your favourite food?
- A: Chips, curry, steak and my Mum’s lemon meringue pie with a sponge base (though obviously not at the same time).
- Q: Your favourite drink?
- A: Bitter, decent cold lager, cider in the summer, vodka & orange, gin & tonic (sometimes at the same time).
- Q: Favourite song?
- A: Mix Queen and The Wonder Stuff and you’ll get somewhere close. Loads of other stuff to numerous to mention.
- Q: Favourite film?
- A: Any of the Star Wars Films (but mainly episodes IV, V and VI), The Blues Brothers, Local Hero, any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Q: Give us a fascinating fact about yourself:
- A: I was born on Christmas Day and featured in the Stratford Herald as a Christmas baby. I play the drums, and I share my name with the MP for Daventry.
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