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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: Donington Park, Census questions and a young entrepreneur.

Donington Park, Census questions and a young entrepreneur.

BBC Radio Derby - Phil Trow's Breakfast Show, Donington Park, Census questions and a young entrepreneur.

The newly opened Donnington Park, the Census and a young man turns a tenner into a profit.

7.08am: We find out why a secularist campaigner from Derbyshire wants the census questions to change.

7.15am: We hear how thieves could now be cursed after stealing an ancient part of Derbyshire's heritage.

7.37am: We talk to a twelve-year-old boy who turned a tenner into a large profit.

7.44am: After two years in the wilderness, top-class racing returns to Donington Park today, we hear more.

7.53am: We speak to the current Miss Derby, Zoe James, who will be judging this year's contest. 

8.08am:  We explore whether the census questions should change to more accurately represent our religious views.

8.14am: We hear that hundreds of people from Derby will be involved in a mass protest about cuts in London at the weekend.

8.16am: A gang of men from Derbyshire have been jailed for a total of 16 years for stealing vital copper cables from railway lines. 

8.22am: A jet tried to land at Washington's Reagan National Airport, but the control tower operative was asleep. 

8.38am: We here of some that have been found that COULD date back to the first century.

8.45am: Ancient sealed books have been discovered in Jordon, some of which are the Dead Sea Scrolls, Doctor Margaret Barker from Borrowash explains more. 

8.55am: We feel the need for speed, we're live at the newly opened Donington Park ahead of the weekend's action.

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