Meet the Team

🎵 Favourite Album: Man in Black – Johnny Cash
🎶 Favourite Song: Steve Bloomer's Watching (Derby County)
🎬 Favourite Film: Lost in Translation
📺 Favourite TV Programme: Only Fools and Horses
🌍 Favourite Place Visited: California
📖 Favourite Book: The Bible
⭐ Most Famous Person Met: Katie Melua
🍽️ Dinner With: Scarlett Johansson
🍛 Favourite Food: Indian Curry
⚽ Favourite Sport: Football

Dave is the presenter of Daybreak from 08.00-10.00CET daily on TRE. Dave is an ordained minister and instigated the creation of 2 revs on Sunday mornings. He has had an interest in radio from a very early age, he has also been involved with Radio Cracker and Hope fm both community radio stations in the midlands.

He was a regular guest on BBC WM in Birmingham with a thought for the week and joined TRE in 2009. Above all, he is a Derby County fan through and through, which sometimes comes across in his sports bulletins with sports media. His favourite interview to date was with Chas Hodges from Chas and Dave.

📻 Daybreak — Monday to Friday 08:00–10:00 CET

🎵 Favourite Album: Sign O' The Times – Prince
🎶 Favourite Song: Tempted – Squeeze
🎬 Favourite Film: Withnail and I
📺 Favourite TV Programme: Frasier
🌍 Favourite Place Visited: Venice
📖 Favourite Book: Kitchen Confidential
⭐ Most Famous Person Met: Hannah Murray… (Jay Kay)
🍽️ Dinner With: Eva Longoria
🍝 Favourite Food: Italian
🏎️ Favourite Sport: Motor Racing

Giles Brown has been based in southern Spain for nearly 30 years. Having worked as a journalist contributing to The Times, Daily Mail, The Mirror, Daily Star, BBC and Radio 5 Live. Giles now presents three shows a week (...at the very least!) on Talk Radio Europe

📻 Let's Talk — Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 10:00–12:00 CET
📻 Viewpoint — Tuesday 10:00–12:00 CET
📻 A Slice of Brown — Saturday 09:00–11:00 CET

🎵 Favourite Album: Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
🎶 Favourite Song: Lascia ch'io pianga – G.F. Handel
🎬 Favourite Film: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
📺 Favourite TV Programme: Lilyhammer
🌍 Favourite Place Visited: Angkor
📖 Favourite Book: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
⭐ Most Famous Person Met: Prince Charles
🍽️ Dinner With: Noam Chomsky
🪿 Favourite Food: Roast Goose
🚣 Favourite Sport: Rowing

Educated in Spain and England, Stephen Ritson is the host of Europe Today, Talk Radio Europe’s flagship current affairs programme. Since his first job as a diarist on the London Evening Standard, Stephen’s media career has spanned print media, television and radio, both in the UK and Spain.

He has also worked extensively as a translator and interpreter for organisations such as the Institute for Economic Affairs in the UK, The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute in the US and the Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales in Spain. Consummately bilingual, he has translated books by, among others, former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar and Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. An avid traveller, he has visited nearly three dozen countries in the past three years alone, providing his listeners with a unique personal insight into some of the key issues confronting the world today.

Europe Today is broadcast live every weekday 12.00CET – 14.00CET, from our studio in Altea. The programme provides up to the minute breaking news from Europe and beyond as well as analysis of the motivations behind some of the most important stories in the world today. By referencing multiple sources and airing the opinions of a wide range of conflicting views, Europe Today aims to go beyond the traditional Western perspective of other mainstream media outlets.

This research is complemented by a spectrum of correspondents and associates on location whenever and wherever a story breaks. Despite its name, Europe Today is not just about Europe. Rather, it provides listeners with a rounded view of the whole world from a European perspective, often covering important stories that its competitors have missed and explaining frequently complex issues in easy to understand plain English.
Europe Today.... Delivering your Right to Know.

📻 Europe Today — Monday to Friday 12:00–14:00 CET

🎵 Favourite Album: Innervisions – Stevie Wonder
🎶 Favourite Song: Parisienne Walkways – Gary Moore
🎬 Favourite Film: The Shawshank Redemption
📺 Favourite TV Programme: Anything that makes me laugh out loud!
🌍 Favourite Place Visited: Too many beautiful places to just pick one!
📖 Favourite Book: Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
⭐ Most Famous Person Met: Eva Longoria
🍽️ Dinner With: Myself in 30 years
🍫 Favourite Food: Chocolate!!

Selina started working at TRE in 2011 when she joined Kenny Jones to co-host the Weekend Show. This successful show is still running from 11am to 1pm every Sunday, re-branded as ‘Your Sunday Selection’, where she takes your song requests for birthdays, anniversaries, for someone special…or just for yourself!

Around 6 months later she was offered a one hour Saturday morning show which she called Lifestyles and after another 6 months this was moved to a daily slot from 1pm – 3pm (now 2pm to 4pm). The show covers a Mental health awareness feature, an Animal Feature, Cookery, Health, Gardening, Biographys and much more. Some of her highlights were interviewing Tony Hadley, Midge Ure, Kate Adie and of course Gilbert O’Sullivan.

Selina has been in Spain for 11 years. Before moving here she was involved in Acting and Modelling in the UK. She also ran two businesses, one of which she is still a director and travelled all over the world as International Sales Director for a hotel company.
“I love working for Talk Radio Europe” Selina says “And I feel honoured to be part of the team. I hope my time here will be long and successful”

📻 The Lifestyles Show — Monday - Friday 14:00–16:00 CET
📻 Selina's Sunday Selection — Sunday 11:00–13:00 CET

🎵 Favourite Album: 4.5 – Indigo Girls
🎶 Favourite Song: Brighter Than the Sun – Colbie Caillat
🎬 Favourite Film: Forrest Gump
📺 Favourite TV Programme: Friends (or any quiz show)
🌍 Favourite Place Visited: Sydney, Australia
📖 Favourite Book: Chris Evans’ autobiographies, It’s Not What You Think & Memoirs of a Fruitcake
⭐ Most Famous Person Met: George Clooney (he’s recently bought a place in Marbella so we can spend more time together)
🍽️ Dinner With: Alan Carr (the comedian, not the self-help quitting smoking guy!)
🥗 Favourite Food: Rosada and salad in a nice chiringuito on the beach
⚽ Favourite Sport: Gymnastics


Hannah moved to Spain in 2003 after having travelled and worked abroad in a variety of jobs. Although never working in radio before, she did Performing Arts at college, and has always had an interest in the media.

She started at Talk Radio Europe in 2005 as a producer and researcher for the Magazine Show. Before long she was presenting both Stage and Screen and the Saturday Morning Breakfast Show. Then in 2008 she became the host of the daily Magazine Show, when she was interviewing up to 10 different guests each day! Some of her highlights include Noel Edmonds, Anne Diamond, Martine McCutcheon, Raymond Blanc, Louise Hay, Rick Stein, Beth Tweddle, Alexandra Shulman, and Sylvia Young. She hosted The Breakfast Show for 9 years and is now happily not setting her alarm anymore and is back interviewing interesting people in the afternoons.

Hannah has also been presenting The Book Show for over fifteen years, and has interviewed some fantastic authors including James Patterson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffrey Archer, Wilbur Smith, David Baldacci, and Lee Child

📻 TRE in The Afternoon — Monday to Thursday 16.00-18.00 CET
📻 The TRE Book Show — Friday 14.00-16.00 CET and Sunday (Repeat) 09.00-11.00 CET

🎵 Favourite Album: 4.5 – The The – Soul Mining & K.D Lang and the Siss Boom Bang – Sing it Loud
🎶 Favourite Song: The The – This is the day
🎬 Favourite Film: Lawn Dogs
📺 Favourite TV Programme: Breaking Bad or the West Wing
🌍 Favourite Place Visited: China
📖 Favourite Book: The life according to Garp – John Irving
⭐ Most Famous Person Met: John Cleese
🍽️ Dinner With: Barack Obama or Joanna Lumley
🥗 Favourite Food: Papas a la pobre
⚽ Favourite Sport: Walking the dog

📻 Spanish Sounds — Saturday 12:00–13:00 CET

🎵 Favourite Album: 4.5 – Indigo Girls
🎶 Favourite Song: Hit the Road Jack, Ray Charles
🎬 Favourite Film: The Good Lie
📺 Favourite TV Programme: The Boys
🌍 Favourite Place Visited: Taiwan
📖 Favourite Book: The Return - Victoria Hislop
⭐ Most Famous Person Met: Boris Johnson
🍽️ Dinner With: My family
🥗 Favourite Food: Bread
⚽ Favourite Sport: Mountain biking and netball

Anna is an award-winning presenter having cut her teeth primarily as a stunt cyclist for a TV show on ITV in the UK. She discovered a passion for interviews and went on to work for most of the top broadcasters covering the sport of cycling. She was lead presenter for Sky’s ‘Mountain Biking Adventures’ and has hosted videos and live events for such as Red bull, Eurosport, Discovery, Subaru, Adidas and the BBC.
Since moving to Spain to be with her family she has used her passion and talent for warm interviews and cheeky shows to work in radio, and now hosts her informative and philosophical new show ‘it’s the Fri-yay cocktail’

📻 It's the Fri-YAY Cocktail — Friday 16:00–18:00 CET

I sometimes wonder where the time has gone, born 17th believe how long ago that is!) I have lived in Spain since 1998 and my late wife, Pen, and I adopted the same laid-back approach as the locals.

Our kids grew up here and we have made a lot of friends and employ local people. My Spanish dream was to arrange tours into the wilds of Spain on mountain bikes, but you fall back into what you know and what I know is tree surgery, having done this previously in Canada, California and England. Since 1998 I have been plying the Costa with The A Team (that’s what we call ourselves – ‘El Equipo A’), climbing, pruning and sometimes felling palms, pines and eucaluptus trees.

I am also a singer with the 9 piece rock cabaret Biagra. So in answer to the question “Are you a tree surgeon?” “I am, but I am also an hotelier (In 2009, we opened Dar Gabriel, a boutique hotel in Chefchaouen, Morocco), actor, singer, event organiser, American Truck enthusiast, mountain biker, bull terrier aficionado and radio presenter (I began broadcasting ‘George and The Hogg’s Saturday magazine show with Phil George, on Talk Radio Europe in September 2013).

No wonder I’m exhausted! It must be my age!
“Booof”

“What was that?”
“That was your life mate“

📻En Camino — Saturday 11:00–12:00 CET

🎵 Favourite Album: Original Soundtrack The Thomas Crown Affair
🎵 Favourite Album: Really impossible to pick but lets go with Chasing Pavements – Adele
🎶 Favourite Song: Really impossible to pick but lets go with Chasing Pavements – Adele
🎬 Favourite Film: Another near impossible choice: Ben Hur 1959
📺 Favourite TV Programme: MASH
🌍 Favourite Place Visited: Venice
📖 Favourite Book: The Dune Trilogy
⭐ Most Famous Person Met: (...and interviewed)…. Michael Caine
🍽️ Dinner With: Stephen Spielberg
🥗 Favourite Food: Thai noodle dishes
⚽ Favourite Sport: Rugby Union

I have been involved in Radio in Spain since 1998. Prior to this I was enticed to Spain by my work in video production but soon after this, I spent a year running a beach concession at Las Dunas. That was a fabulous time and soon after that, I got back into radio after many years away from the medium, with Spectrum FM. In 2004 I moved to a new operation in San Pedro based at La Colonia centre to design and commission the now TRE Talk Radio Europe station system.

Before coming to Spain, was very much involved in Radio Production from the early 70s so go back a “long way”! Radio has always been in my blood. From the Radio Pirates of the late 60s to today`s highly technical systems; it´s been a long learning curve. What is important though is the people and I have always aspired to provide the best. I have a big interest in movies and film in general, as I do with all kinds of music.

This I fortunately get to produce and present with my Moves and U show and the Album Hour shows. Allan Tee Other credits: Producer for London Advertisers in the 70s and Capital Radio Director of Radio Training and Production for Roger Squire Ltd Journalist for Video Industry Publications in the 80s and Film critic and reviewer for Regional Press in the same decade. Radio presenter and producer for Hereward Radio, Chiltern Radio.

📻 The Director's Cut — Friday 18:00–19:00 CET and Sunday (Repeat) 13.00-14.00 CET