Nigel MacArthur

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Nigel MacArthur

Show	Nigel Harris
Station(s)	Kmfm
Style	Disc Jockey
Country	United Kingdom
Website	http://www.freewebs.com/nigelmacarthur

Nigel MacArthur is a broadcaster in Kent on the Kmfm radio network working under the name of Nigel Harris [1].

When working on his first job at the offshore station Radio Caroline in the late seventies, he was known as Stuart Russell. Sadly, the radioship Mi Amigo sank in 1980 putting the station off the air for several years. He returned in 1984 aboard a new ship, and adopted the name Nigel Harris a few years later. Like most Caroline DJs at the time he used aliases to ensure anonymity. [2]

He was on board Caroline's ship Ross Revenge for the collapse of the 300 foot tall mast in a 1987 storm and the British / Dutch raid which silenced the station for a while in 1989. He was appointed programme controller in 1989 and was the last person to hold this position when Caroline was at sea.

He worked on the Voice of peace in Israel in the early nineties before going to Invicta FM in 1992. There followed work at Essex FM and satellite station EKR and today Nigel continues his Radio Caroline connections broadcasting from The Maidstone Studios, once again using the name Stuart Russell.

He attended St Edmund's School in Canterbury, Kent where he studied organ under John Brough and is Sub-Organist at St Michael's Church in Sittingbourne, Kent and plays for all the major services in church. Concerts and recitals take place in St Michael's Church throughout the year with the Canterbury Cathedral choir visiting in the summer of 2006. The St Michael's Choir and organists visit other churches to sing Evensong including several visits to Rochester Cathedral.