Radio

Stephen Lee was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the National Council for the Training of Broadcast Journalists (NCTBJ) in 1992. He studied at Highbury College in Portsmouth.

He started his media career in 1992 at radio station BBC Radio Norfolk as a radio reporter and progressed to radio newsreader and radio presenter. He presented the two hour, all speech breakfast programme “Today in Norfolk” and the drivetime show “Norfolk Tonight” as well as a weekend entertainment show called “Saturday Stretch”. Stephen established the station on the internet, the first BBC local radio station to go online. He also reported for the national BBC radio networks, Radio Four and Five Live.

In this period, Stephen was selected by Cellnet to become the voice of its national mobile phone network. He recorded a series of announcements for callers.

He then worked briefly for the BBC’s regional news programme “Look East” as a Regional Journalist before moving to the BBC’s bi-media base in Cambridge where he worked in both radio and television. He presented and produced the Breakfast Show and also the Drivetime Show, and presented the evening regional radio news bulletins broadcast across the east of England.