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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: 10k run, body found in Milford and Libya

10k run, body found in Milford and Libya

BBC Radio Derby - Phil Trow's Breakfast Show, 10k run, body found in Milford and Libya

Wheelchair athlete vs the Derby 10k run, a woman's body found in Milford and Libya update.

A disabled man vs the Derby 10k run, a woman's body is found in Milford and Libya update.

7.08am: British jets continue to bombard Libya. We speak to Frank Faulkner, an expert in global politics at the University of Derby.

7.15am: We put a very confident pensioner's driving skills to the test.

7.19am: It's the fifth anniversary of the founding of Twitter. We speak to the founder. 

7.23am: We revisit our Politics Idol sing-off from Friday and catch up with the winner.

7.37am: We get an update from a Derby man who was working in Japan when the earthquake struck.

7.44am: This year Derby had the event all to itself, we'll find out how the Kilomathon went.

7.53am: There's anger as the number of applications for mobile phone masts in Belper shoots up.

8.08am: The wheelchair athlete who isn't happy with the organisers of this weekend's Kilomathon.

8.14am: We speak to Stan, the 74-year-old who thinks he's such a good driver he can safely drive at 100mph hour down the motorway.

8.22am: As record crowds flocked to Uttoxeter this weekend, we hear how the Midlands Grand National went.

8.38am: Over the weekend, a woman died after she was pulled out of the River Derwent. Victoria Holland reports from the scene. 

8.45am: The Rams look to have edged closer to survival in the Championship. 

8.55am: Our reporter Nikki Fox is at RAF Marham, the base where Tornadoes flew to carry out a bombing mission.

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