Andrew Peach (born in Walsall, West Midlands) is a radio presenter in the UK. He presents regular news and phone-in shows on BBC WM and BBC Radio Berkshire. He is an occasional stand-in presenter on BBC Radio Five Live [1] and a freelance newsreader on BBC Radio 2.
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Andrew Peach was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School in Walsall and St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he achieved a first class master's degree in Modern History and Politics. He is a member of Mensa and is a qualified piano teacher. He lives in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire with his wife and two children. He is patron of two charities in Berkshire: Thames Hospicecare, which runs hospices in Windsor and Ascot and WAMDSAD, a disabled sports charity in Maidenhead.
Peach's career started at BBC Radio Oxford in 1991. He joined BBC Radio Berkshire in 1992, BBC Radio 2 in 1998, BBC WM in 2008 and BBC Radio Five Live in 2010.
Peach was nominated as UK Speech Broadcaster of the Year in the 2010 Sony Radio Academy Awards.[2] His programmes were nominated for Sony Awards in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010 winning one gold, one silver and two bronze awards.[3][4][5][6] [7]
He won the Silver World Medal for Best News Anchor at the New York Radio Festival in 2007[8] and was named BBC Local Presenter of the Year in 2005.[9]
Peach's BBC Berkshire show was reviewed by The Guardian in April 2010.[10]
His interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury in November 2010 was reported in every UK national newspaper.[11][12] [13] His conversation with a tearful Reading FC Captain the morning after the club was relegated from the Premier League was featured in The Times in May 2008.[14] His programmes have also been reported in the Daily Mail and Sunday Telegraph.[15][16]
Major broadcasts have included coverage of the US Presidential Election in Washington, D.C. in November 2004 and Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010.