Clive Warren
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Clive Warren is a British radio DJ. He currently presents the Century FM "big drive home" in North West England.
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[edit] Early career
His first experience of radio broadcasting came at Radio Moorfields, the hospital station at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, from there he joined the first in-store radio station, Radio Top Shop, at Oxford Circus in London. He went onto presenting Children's ITV from 1989 to 1991, before becoming a DJ again at London's Capital FM, where he presented a Saturday night show from 10pm-1am, before taking over the weekend early show & the overnight slot on Mondays & Tuesdays.
[edit] Radio 1
He joined BBC Radio 1 in November 1994, presenting the Weekend Breakfast Show. In October 1995, Clive became Chris Evans' warmup presenter as he took over the Weekday Early Breakfast show from 4-6.30am. Following on from Chris Moyles joining Radio 1 in July 1997, Clive took over the weekday overnight slot from 1-4am, this became 2-4am from October 1998. He remained on this slot until he left Radio 1 in September 2000.
While at Radio 1 he gave the first UK radio play to "Free as a Bird", the first single released by The Beatles for 25 years, and also deputised for Mark Goodier on the Top 40 show on several occasions.
[edit] Virgin Radio
In October 2000, Clive joined Virgin Radio, presenting a Sunday afternoon show from 1-4pm & in January 2001, he took over the Weekday late-night slot from Gary Davies, from 10pm-1am.
He left Virgin in January 2002 and returned to Capital FM presenting occasional overnight slots.
[edit] Real Radio & Jazz FM
In early 2003, Clive joined Real Radio Wales, where he presented the afternoon show and in March 2004, he joined London's 102.2 Jazz FM, presenting a Saturday morning show from 10am-2pm & the Weekday late night show from 9pm-Midnight. He remained here until October 2004.
[edit] Heart 106.2 & Reading 107
In early 2005, Clive joined London's Heart 106.2 as a stand in presenter, before taking over the Sunday mid-morning show from 9am-12noon.
In addition to that, in early 2006, he also joined Reading 107, as a presenter of their weekday drivetime show from 2-6pm. He remained here until late 2006.
[edit] Current work
Clive now works at 105.4 Century Radio in Manchester as the drivetime host. He broadcasts the show every weekday from 2-6pm & also presents a Saturday morning show from 10am-2pm.
Clive is also due to soon be starring in a new film by first time writer/director Karl Pilkington alongside Rebecca De Mornay
