Lynn Margaret Parsons is a British

United Kingdom

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 disc jockey

Disc jockey

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 and currently presents Weekends 10am - 2pm on UK radio station Smooth Radio and various shows on for BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

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Parsons has an OND

BTEC ND

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 in electronic principles and started her career working in the television industry as a sound engineer and then a vision mixer. Her broadcasting career began in the early 1980s, as a presenter on hospital radio

Hospital radio

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 and later working for Guildford

Guildford

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-based commercial radio station County Sound (later known as The Eagle

96.4 The Eagle

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Parsons moved to Capital Radio

Capital Radio

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 in 1987, presenting a three hour show (1-4am) five nights a week.

1991 saw Parsons move to BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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 presenting the Overnight slot on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 2-4am.