Presenter profile: Mark Murphy

"Every time the red light goes on I love it," said Mark

Mark was born in Suffolk, is passionate about broadcasting in his home patch and first received national recognition in 2003 when he was crowned the Sony Radio Academy News Broadcaster of the year.

The judges described him as "The epitome of what a local radio broadcaster should be in his reporting of news, responding to the community and holding service providers to account."

In 2006 Mark and his breakfast team were also awarded the EDF Energy regional radio journalist of the year award.

And in 2007, Mark's breakfast show was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy News and Current Affairs award for its sensitive coverage of the killings of five women in Ipswich.

In the same year Mark, producer Kate Arkell and engineer David Butcher scooped a Frank Gillard (BBC Local Radio) award for their outside broadcast in Jamestown, USA.

The team travelled to Virginia to follow in the footsteps of Suffolk explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, who's credited with founding the first English-speaking settlement in North America.

It was this outside broadcast that also earned Mark his second Sony Radio Academy gold award in 2008.

In 2009 Mark and his breakfast team received another top gong as they were crowned EDF energy regional news and current affairs programme of the year. Mark's Don't Be A Tosser campaign also won two prestigious Frank Gillard awards in the same year.

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"Presenting the BBC Radio Suffolk Breakfast Show is a dream come true for me," said Mark.

"I remember listening to the very first Good Morning Suffolk Show on 12 April, 1990. Now I'm presenting that very programme on that very station."

Mark is an Ipswich Town season ticket holder and sits in the North Stand upper tier with his wife and fellow BBC Radio Suffolk presenter Lesley Dolphin.

They both walk their rescue dog Satsuma and can usually be found stomping out and about with him somewhere in the Suffolk countryside.

Mark also has an unhealthy obsession with the UFO sightings in Rendlesham Forest in 1980. "I'm determined one day to find out what really happened that night."

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Listen to Mark Murphy on BBC Radio Suffolk, weekday mornings from 6.30am and Saturday mornings from 9am.