Graham Torrington
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| Born | 1961 Birmingham, England, UK |
| Station(s) | BBC Radio WM |
| Time slot | 10pm-1am (Sun-Thur) |
| Style | Talk radio |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Website | BBC WM |
Graham Torrington (born in 1961 in Birmingham, England) is a British radio presenter and broadcaster.
After starting out as a hospital radio presenter, Torrington joined Birmingham's BRMB in the 1980s to cover an overnight programme for Steve Dennis. He was with the station for several years during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and through most of his tenure there presented a late night programme of love songs called Romantica. The show had previously been hosted by Charley Neal, who went on to become a weather presenter at Central Television. Torrington presented the programme on Saturdays for a while after Neal, but moved to host the station's lunchtime show in 1989, as well as a Sunday morning programme. Romantica was presented by Nick Hennigan for a while, but the show was relaunched with Torrington in 1990 and aired on Sunday evenings. Romantica used an instrumental version of Luther Vandross's Any Love as its opening theme tune. Torrington continued his weekday presenting, moving to the Drivetime show, then in 1992 he started hosting a late night show from Mondays to Thursdays. This programme contained a love songs strand titled The Love Zone. Torrington left the station in 1993 after its acquisition by the Capital Radio Group when he and several other presenters were axed by incoming managing director Richard Park. He moved to Buzz FM, taking Romantica with him, and he was made the station's Programme Controller. He later launched Kix 96 in Coventry.
The majority of Torrington's radio career has been within the commercial radio industry. Presenting on stations such as 96.4FM BRMB and more recently on Global Radio (formerly GCap Media's) The One Network where Torrington presented the nightly relationship show, Graham Torrington's Late Night Love for 12 years. The show regularly attracted more than 1 million listeners across the UK on 41 radio stations and earnt Torrington a Sony Radio Academy Award and the award for "Best Talk Show Host" at the New York Radio Festival Awards in 2008. Following Torrington's move to the BBC, fans of Late Night Love campaigned for him to return to late night radio, which prompted Torrington to start producing a weekly podcast version of the show.
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