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Phil Trow

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Phil started his radio career in the Midlands in 1986 and has since worked with everyone from Robbie Williams to Emily Bishop! 

However, for his first foray into the world of breakfast on BBC Radio Derby, he was renamed Phil Snow as he sat in during the bad weather in the early part of 2010.

Phil achieved a number one single in Staffordshire, the 'Telethon Rap'. He was also served his tea by Robbie - when the pop superstar in waiting was on work experience at his radio station! 

He joined BBC Radio Manchester in 1990 (when it was BBC GMR) where he interviewed his most daunting guest to date - Margaret Thatcher. 

He also carelessly lost the Lord Mayor down the back of a massive inflatable frog! He was part of the team that won a Sony Radio award for coverage of the IRA bomb attack in Manchester. The explosion happened while Phil was on-air. 

He was also a regular presenter on the BBC North West Children in Need TV show. 

Phil diversified in the 90's and became the 'warm-up' man for Children's BBC, working on programmes like 'Live and Kicking' and 'Get your own back' - he says he still has the gunge stains. 

He has also pruned roses with Alan Titchmarsh and made lasagne with Gordon Ramsay. 

Phil has tried his hand at acting, appearing in Coronation Street and in panto. He even played 'Gary Lineker' in the stage play 'An evening with ...'. 

He joined BBC Radio Lancashire in 2004 and last year headed back to the Midlands to present various programmes for BBC Radio Derby.

Phil Trow's Breakfast Show: Pet cremation outrage and a Derby couple stuck in Queensland

Pet cremation outrage and a Derby couple stuck in Queensland

BBC Radio Derby - Phil Trow's Breakfast Show, Pet cremation outrage and a Derby couple stuck in Queensland

Reaction to Derby woman jailed over pet cremations and a Tutbury lady stuck in Australia.

Reaction to a Derby woman jailed over pet cremations and a Tutbury lady stuck in Australia.

7.08am: We hear from the pet owners who fell victim to a Derbyshire woman who promised to cremate their pets but dumped them instead.

7.15am: We catch up with a Derbyshire woman who is on holiday in Australia who has been forced out of where she is staying because of an approaching cyclone.

7.37am: We get reaction from people in Burton to an MP's plans to name streets after local MPs.

7.44am: As a local credit union expands we'll be finding out what they are - and who uses them. 

7.53am: We'll be talking ponds later in the programme - and how their future may be affected by budget cuts.

8.08am: We get reaction to the jailing of a Derbyshire woman who dumped pets' bodies in a field rather than cremating them.

8.15am: As a Burton MP wants streets named after politicians - we hear from elsewhere in the country where they wanted to name a street after the former Labour leader Michael Foot.

8.37am: We'll hear about the fears a Derbyshire couple have for their friends in Egypt.

8.44am: We find out why residents near East Midlands Airport are being asked to think twice before lighting Chinese lanterns.

8.53am: We're at Derbyshire's biggest school where strike dates are announced.

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