Petroc Trelawny
| Petroc Trelawny | |
|---|---|
| Born |
James Edward Petroc Trelawny 27 May 1971 Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Classical music radio and television broadcaster |
| Known for | BBC Radio 3 Breakfast |
James Edward Petroc Trelawny (born 27 May 1971) is a British classical music radio and television broadcaster, who joined BBC Radio 3 in 1998, where he now presents Breakfast.
James Edward Petroc Trelawny was born in Worcester but grew up in the Meneage district of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall and attended Helston School. He started his career with BBC Radio Devon in 1989, aged 19, as a reporter and presenter. During the First Gulf War, Trelawny was a newsreader for the British Forces Broadcasting Service, and then joined the station as a presenter in Hong Kong for a year.
In 1992 Trelawny joined new radio station Classic FM, in London, as the first presenter of the afternoon show. In 1994 Trelawny joined London News Radio where he hosted a daily three-hour news and talk show. In 1997 he co-presented the BBC GMR Breakfast Show, broadcast from Manchester, with Victoria Derbyshire.
In 1998 Trelawny joined BBC Radio 3 full-time. Trelawny presented Breakfast, and subsequently In Tune, and has introduced hundreds of broadcasts for the station, many from the BBC Proms, as well as the Cardiff Singer of the World and the Leeds International Piano Competition.
He had also broadcast for RTE Lyric FM in Ireland, where his major documentary series Max and St Magnus – An Orkney Saga won an ESB Media Award. Trelawny is a regular television presenter of classical music programmes for BBC Two, BBC Four and Sky Arts.
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