Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has been nominated for
radio broadcaster of the year in this year's annual Broadcasting Press Guild
Awards.
Cocker, who
presents shows on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music, is up against Radio 4 news presenter
Martha Kearney and former newsreader Charlotte Green.
Green, famous
for her occasional giggles, was nominated in recognition of her 25-year career
at Radio 4.
The awards are
voted for by a panel of media journalists.
Previous
recipients of the broadcaster of the year award include Sir Terry Wogan,
Jonathan Ross and Kirsty Young.
Cocker became a
figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s through his band, whose
hits included Common People and Disco 2000. He began presenting his Sunday
Service show on 6 Music in January 2010.
He won the
rising star prize at the Sony Radio Academy Awards later that year.
His Radio 4
show, Wireless Nights, sees him take listeners "on a nocturnal journey
around stories of night people".
Others in the
running for an guild award in March include BBC Radio 3's World and Music, a
sequence of classical music interspersed with both popular and less familiar
poems and prose read by leading actors.
The judges
described it as an "overlooked jewel" in the BBC's crown.
Radio 4's
comedy series Cabin Pressure (see pic), featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam,
has been nominated for best radio programme along with James Joyce's Ulysses, a
Radio 4 dramatisation to mark Bloomsday, the day in June when the book's events
take place.
They will
compete against Soul Music, another Radio 4 series, about music that has a
strong emotional impact.
The winners
will be announced at an awards lunch in London on 14 March.
Source: BBC
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