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Charlie Girling

Charlie Girling has the voice for radio, but a face for TV! She's the rosebud amongst the thorns in the Trent FM newsroom and you can find out more about her here...

 

Name: Charlie Girling
Age: 24
DOB: 13th October 1983
Starsign: Libra

 

  • Favourite song: Lola - The Kinks, Counting Crows - Mr Jones, Stolen Car - Beth Orton, or Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train.

 

  • Favourite album: REM - Out of Time, Coldplay - Parachutes or The Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour.

 

  • Favourite sport team: Nottingham Panthers and Notts County - come on you pies!

 

  • Biggest star you've met: Charlotte Church was good fun...and Peter Kay was great company on a long train journey! And meeting the McFly boys was one of the highlights of mine and Stuart's lives.

 

  • People who know me say I am: Always late and rushing, kind, ditzy, fun, determined, bossy, difficult to shock (good thing given some of the things that go on at this radio station!)

 

  • "I got into radio journalism because...": I decided my two favourite things in life were knowing things first, and telling people about them!

 

  • What's the biggest story you've covered: Sadly our really big stories are usually murders...but one of the funniest ones I've covered was the Channel 4 show which said Nottingham was the second worst place to live in the UK - we ended up showing almost everything they said was wrong!

 

  • Which news story would you love to have covered: VE Day 1945.

 

  • Favourite cock-up?: Err...that's a toss-up between asking famous cricketer Ian Botham if he'd ever been to Nottingham before (home of the famous Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, as he soon reminded me!) and writing off two promotional jeeps on the same day by crashing them into each other. Luckily I wasn't working for Trent at the time!

 

  • What advice would you give to wannabe journo's?: Get as much work experience as possible by emailing people (though make sure you listen to that station's news output first!) Once you're in, arrive early, stay late, work as hard as you can and be friendly - then people will remember you and want to help you in the future. Oh, and if you're on work experience at Trent, make me and Stuart lots of tea - we're very grumpy without caffeine!

 

 

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