Adrian Allen is a radio presenter, who is well-known for his previous work at LBC 97.3 a talk based radio station. He was born in Sunderland on 27 January 1962 in the North-East region of England and has broadcast on various stations in Great Britain.

At the end of 2006 he was presenting weekend breakfast on Talk 107 in Edinburgh and a Sunday night slot on 3 local radio stations in his home area of Wearside; Sun FM, Durham FM and Alpha 103.2.

From January 2 2007, Allen joined London's LBC 97.3 FM, in his trademark late-night slot. Allen has previously filled in for Marcus Churchill who was, until July 5th 2005, on leave for gallbladder trouble and LBC is the latest stop in a lengthy career of speech, and before that music, radio. Adrian officially left LBC as of 23rd May 2007.

On 8 July he returned to the East Midlands on LBC's sister station Heart 106 where he worked when it was called Century 106 making much of his return. He will be hosting the Sunday late show for a few weeks.

Career

He originally made the transition to speech radio at 96.6 TFM in England's North-East, taking over from James Stannage who himself returned to a long-term slot at Manchester's Piccadilly radio stations.

In no particular order as yet, Allen has also presented across regional radio stations Century FM and Real Radio (from 2000 to 2002), local stations Rock FM and BRMB, Buzz FM in Birmingham (as a music DJ), Liberty Radio in London (as a music DJ and controller) and Wear FM in Sunderland, BBC local radio stations in Newcastle and Teeside BBC Radio Cleveland.

Both alongside and beforehand to speech broadcasting, Allen has presented traditional soul shows, the latest of which was his "Sunday night Big Night" In on BBC Radio Cleveland.

Adrian is a master of the spiritual healing art of Reiki, and hosts a "Reiki Box", where visitors to his website can appeal to have distance Reiki healing applied for no charge.

Attempts to ruin Wikipedia

On 24th April 2007 Allen encouraged listeners to his LBC show to edit Wikipedia entries for comedy value. Some listeners did call the show to explain how childish this was, and pointed out that Wikipedia needs to be a reliable sorce of information.

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