Category: Radio Nottingham
Date: 18.02.2005
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham lunchtime presenter Sarah Julian today (between noon and 2.00pm, Friday) announces live on air that she is handing over her lunchtime show to Frances Finn.
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Sarah, who is eight months pregnant, is the station's much-loved lunchtime presenter and the audience have followed her pregnancy on air.
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She says she is overwhelmed by the various gifts, cards and good wishes she has received for herself and her bump!
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"I just want to say a big thank you to all my listeners who have been so generous since I announced that I was to give birth to my first baby," she says.
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"I really appreciate everything and can't wait to hand over the presents when my baby is born."
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Sarah, who has presented the show for the past three years, will return in the autumn.
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Frances has moved on to the programme after presenting the 91Èȱ¬ Midlands Late Show for the past year.
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Notes to Editors
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham is broadcast on 103.8, 95.5 and 95.1 FM and 1584 AM.
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Frances Finn biography
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Frances Finn - known as Fran - trained as a radio journalist in 1996 and was offered her first day's work at the 91Èȱ¬ early in 1997.
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That day was at 91Èȱ¬ Radio Derby and one day's work turned into a few weeks, and then a few years!
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She was thrown in at the presenting deep end in 1999, and has been in front of the microphone pretty much ever since.
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After doubling the audience of the Lunchtime Show at Radio Derby, she moved to Radio Nottingham 18 months ago.
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She has enjoyed presenting the Late Show - which is broadcast on seven stations around the Midlands - but is looking forward to working during the day so she can free up her evenings to spend more time with her husband, Gerry.
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Now living in Nottingham, Fran's hobbies are motorbiking - she passed her test last December and now rides a Suzuki SV 650S - tennis, cooking, sea fishing and snow boarding.
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She plays several musical instruments and has been in rock bands in the past.
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Fran is also involved with her local Anglican church in Woodthorpe.
