Train-loving Les graduated from a registrar’s office to a fledgling BBC Radio Birmingham and up to Radio Tees, before returning home to his beloved BRMB in Birmingham – where he hosted the breakfast show for decades and became one of the City’s best known broadcasters ever.

Hear Les every Sunday afternoon at 4 .00 on Boom. Drop him a message below.

Les completed his fourth March for Men in Battersea Park on Saturday, 13th June  helping to make a difference to the 1 in 8 men who will get prostate cancer - as Les did. Find out more and sponsor him here.