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- Stuart Linnell MBE BAHons HonMA is a semi-retired UK radio and television broadcaster, particularly well known in Coventry and Warwickshire, and in Northamptonshire. He is Chair of Healthwatch Coventry, and Chair of Coventry Community Digital Radio. After starting his career in his native Birmingham, he was part of the on-air team at the launch of Radio Hallam in Sheffield in 1974. He was also a front-line presenter at the launch of Coventry and Warwickshire’s first local radio station, Coventry based Mercia Sound, in 1980. He worked at Mercia for 15 years, becoming Programme Controller and Managing Director. Later, he spent ten years as a frontline presenter at BBC Radio Northampton until 29 March 2019, when he hosted his final regular daily radio show, having announced that he was then taking semi-retirement. He continued to present weekly sports programmes in Coventry for BBC CWR, and until the restrictions imposed as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic Linnell also hosted other occasional shows for bothBBC Radio Northampton and BBC CWR. For the 2019/2020 football season, Linnell was the host of the Friday evening football phone-in on BBC CWR, where he had previously presented the Sky Blues match-day coverage, as well as other shows. In August 2021 he announced that he would no longer be part of BBC CWR’s football coverage. He continues to host a weekly programme for the online music station Serenade Radio (www.serenade-radio.com). During his career he also broadcast on national and regional television, and on national radio. He also hosted the breakfast shows on BBC WM and BBC CWR. (en)
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