talkSPORT Presenter Profiles
Mike Dickin, The Mike Dickin Show
Mike Dickin is the presenter of the late-night 10:00pm-1:00am slot every Friday and Saturday on talkSPORT discussing the latest news and current affairs.
Starting off as a musician in the 1960s, Mike was a bass player and singer who found he preferred playing records to making them when he joined the BBC in 1970 as the first presenter on air at BBC Oxford. In 1977, Mike moved to Australia for where he worked for Sydney's biggest station, 2UE. When he returned the UK in the late 1970s, he spent 17 years working for BBC Radio 4, LBC and Capital in London. He is also an award-winning presenter having won a Golden Rose Award in New York for his coverage of the Lockerbie disaster.
and had a trial with Headington in the season before they became Oxford United. He played cricket for Abingdon as well, and rugby for Oxford. A keen tennis player, Mike has played for the BBC and still occasionally turns out for various charity cricket teams. Golf, fly fishing and shooting are his current sporting passions as a participant, but horse racing and motor sport take up most of his time as a spectator.
For pure relaxation, sailing and narrow boating are the current favourites, accompanied by music by Joe Cocker, Status Quo, ELO, ZZ Top, Dire Straits and Elkie Brooks. Mike also spends plenty of his leisure time in France where he has property and is said to be retiring across the English Channel when he hangs up his headphones for the final time.
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