Derek Guille
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Derek Guille is an Australian radio presenter. He currently presents the Evenings program on 774 ABC Melbourne and ABC Victoria. Derek plays guitar, snare drum, and kazoo, with varying degrees of proficiency, and sings with a sort of jug band called The Ugly Uncles. His passion for music and live performance is often extended with his regular visits, as a performer or compere at festivals like the Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Queenscliff Music Festival.
Derek also enjoys reading (from the widest range of genres but especially comic fiction), and theatre and has an appreciation for fine wine and food. His latest passion is riding his motor scooter.
Married in 1974, Derek and his wife Barbara have two children and a schnoodle called Bob.
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Before beginning his radio career, Derek worked for Channel Nine and Batman Records and travelled overseas where he worked as a music journalist, silkscreen printer and photographer. Derek fulfilled his childhood ambition when he began his radio career with 3HA in Hamilton in the early eighties. In 1987 he joined the ABC at the Horsham studios of 3WV/WL, presenting the local current affairs Morning program, before moving on to the Breakfast shift. With the creation of the ABC's Bendigo studios in 1993, Derek moved to central Victoria to take up the challenge of building an audience for that new station, as Breakfast presenter and as station manager.
After spending three years presenting the statewide Afternoon program on 774 ABC Melbourne and ABC Local Radio throughout Victoria and Southern New South Wales, in 2003 Derek took over the reins of the Evening Program for Victoria. His programs feature live performances by musicians from around Australia, as well as some of the best of the international artists who tour here. Derek's broad knowledge of musical styles and his understanding of the highs and lows of a musician's life results in players relaxing into generous conversations with him. [1]
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