Janine Machin

Janine Machin (born February 24, 1978) is a British radio and tv presenter.

Machin began her media work in the English counties of Staffordshire and Cheshire as the host of the breakfast show on BBC Radio Stoke. She joined the radio station in 1999 as a telephone answerer and then in 2002 she became co-presenter of the breakfast show along with Kevin Fernihough. Since Fernihough's departure in 2004 to BBC Radio Northampton, Machin hosted the show as its sole presenter.

Machin was born in Stoke-on-Trent is a graduate of Oxford University

Trivia

Machin:
*Is reputed to have an exhaustive collection of footwear.
*She was also a goalkeeper of her school field hockey team.
*In an entry on the BBC website she says, "I like cheese and shoes more than I should, and I'm not a fan of Centre-Lane-Hoggers on the motorway!"

In 2007 Machin joined BBC Look East based in Cambridge as a presenter and reporter for the BBC's Look East's "Close Up" service.

External links

* [http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/images/2005/08/25/janine_machin_203x152.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/02/27/janine_machin_radio_stoke_feature.shtml&h=152&w=203&sz=12&hl=en&start=7&sig2=-oaLSiu9DzDkUMhnK1gW-w&tbnid=4A5ws93fEahdyM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=105&ei=ckgDSKbbG4XywwH49b2QCQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djanine%2Bmachin%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den BBC website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lookeast/content/articles/2007/05/21/janine_machin_feature.shtml BBC Look East biography]

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DATE OF BIRTH =24 February 1978
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