Coffee break
Name: Steve Jenner
Age: 60; Radio age 27 (I get really excited about free prescriptions, though. Marvellous.)
Lives: Yes, which is a bonus at my age and better than the alternative.
Married? Yep. Same one since year dot. She regards me as a sort of ongoing project.
Kids? Yep. Greatest achievement of my life. Grandkids as well.
About you: Aw, read the book and make up your own mind! Been a teacher, businessman, property developer, broadcaster, music journalist, national championship racing driver, press officer, roadshow DJ, talking head on the telly and now author. I’m a lazy, slovenly workaholic who has raised poor personal organisation into an art form. I like to think I’m quite a gentle person who is quite forgiving, generous and tolerant. I hate Volvos, though. I have a stent following a heart thingy which nearly did for me driving through Wirksworth in the snow one fine morning on the way to Ashbourne to present the breakfast show.
Three things you like: Chips, Mrs
Jenner, proper beer.
Three things you dislike: Not being able to enjoy unrestricted chips and beer for health reasons. And to be honest Mrs Jenner operates strict curfew arrangements, as well.
Are you an Up’ard or a Down’ard?: Always gone out of my way to try not to understand which I am. As studio anchorman for Shrovetide, I HAVE to be, and I honestly believe I remain, staunchly neutral. I quite like a score draw, actually, with lots of street play and loads of stuff to talk about and listen to from our folks out in the field. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. Born and bred: In a lift in a Nottingham Hospital at 2am while Chuck Berry was recording ‘Johnny B Goode.’ Grew up in Hucknall in the North Notts coalfield.
Family matters: Sadly this year I lost my last surviving parent which left me and Mrs J as the family ‘elders,’ which is a bit scary.
Work-wise: Most of the time
I just get in the way, with style. Technically I suppose
I’m a broadcaster, author and businessman. Right now I do most of the radio stuff with the regulator, OFCOM, which is a bit of a laugh, really as I spent a fair chunk of my time as a pirate DJ.
Your ideal holiday: Being semi-retired. It’s great. I love, disappearing off on my canal boat and just turning up somewhere four weeks or so later.
Your favourite food: Love a good curry. That’s why I look like this.
Who inspires you? Some of the teachers who taught me at school were an inspiration.
If you ruled the world, what is the one thing you would change? The ruler.
What would it say on your epitaph? ‘Better nail this one down proper. He’s had about a dozen lives and doesn’t know when he’s done...’