Lynn Parsons

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Lynn Parsons is a British disc jockey and current afternoon host on 102.2 Smooth Radio.

Parsons has an OND in electronic principles and started her career working in the television industry as a sound engineer and then a vision mixer. Her broadcasting career began in the early 1980s, working for commercial station County Sound (later known as The Eagle and Mercury FM).

Parsons moved to Capital Radio in 1987, presenting a three hour show five nights a week.

1991 saw Parsons move to BBC Radio 1 presenting the Overnight slot on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 2-4am. In October 1993, Parsons went on to present the Weekday Overnight slot from 12-4am, taking over from Bob Harris.

In 1995, Parsons moved to the Weekend Early morning show 4-7am where she remained until she left Radio 1 in 1996.

She then went on to present shows for BBC World Service and a singing series for BBC Radio 3.

In late 1996, Parsons joined Virgin Radio, presenting the Weekend Evening show between 6 and 10pm, later moving to Weekend Breakfast.

In 1999, Parsons joined the most listened to station in the UK, BBC Radio 2, taking over the Friday and Saturday Overnight slot 12-3am and 1-4am, where she remained until 2003, after leaving to have a baby, although she still continued to deputise for many presenters on the network such as Richard Allinson and Sarah Kennedy until 2006.

In August 2005, Parsons was briefly heard presenting a regular show on BBC Radio Berkshire on Sunday mornings from 10am-1pm and in addition to that, launched The Chalet Show, a mix music and talk podcast "from the chalet at the bottom of Lynn’s garden in the UK." [1] In April 2006, she launched a second podcast, The Red Light Zone, with a similar format to her original show.

Planet Parsons is a daily-ish bite-sized podcast that started in April 2007 and gives a glimpse into the light and dark corners of Lynn's life.

She joined 102.2 Smooth Radio in London following its launch in March 2007. During her first few weeks there, she presented the evening 8pm-midnight slot from Friday to Sunday. However, from 5 May 2007 to 13 January 2008, she swapped shows with Mike Allen to present the Saturday lunchtime 10am-1pm (Later 10am-2pm) and Sunday afternoon (1pm-5pm) shows. She was still to be heard on Friday evenings though.

On 14 January 2008, following the unexpected death of Kevin Greening, Parsons took over the weekday afternoon show (1-4pm) and Saturday afternoon show (2-5pm) on London's 102.2 Smooth Radio. In her spare time, she is writing a musical.