Tim Shaw (DJ)
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Timothy Tim Shaw is a British
radio DJ and TV Presenter. He has two children with his wife Hayley. He is regarded as the UK's most controversial broadcasters of all time.
Shaw has been sacked from almost every radio station he's worked at, and been given the largest fine in history for breaking radio regulations.
His radio show often features secret recordings and phonecalls he makes to his family and friends, sometimes even live, but also very candid and honest interviews with guests who have included Kitty Hart-Moxon
, a survivor of the Holocaust, astronaut Buzz Aldrin
and former underworld gangster Dave Courtney
. He currently hosts a weekend afternoon show on 97.4 Rock FM
in North West England.
, Beacon
, Century FM
, Hallam FM
, Magic Radio
, Kerrang! Radio, Kiss 100
and most recently Absolute Radio, BBC WM, BBC Midlands Network (9 stations)
He replaced Jeremy Kyle
on the Orion Media
Network when Kyle moved to Century FM
.
Donkhole, Nob Holder, Slippy Knickers, Chris Peacock and Toenail and his special friend Judith the Clairvoyant to name a few. The show ended on 20 September 2007.
Shaw's greatest controversy was in 2005 when he and his then colleague Greg Prebble broke into the house of Kerrang Radio's then station director, Andrew Jeffries, live on air. Jeffries returned to his house at 11:20 pm believing that he had been burgled when Tim and his colleague burst out of the cupboards. Tim was immediately suspended 'until further notice' and did not return to Kerrang! Radio for a month.
, a survivor of the Holocaust and the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Shaw believed that the interview would last 1 hour and 30 minutes but it actually lasted just under 7 hours. Shaw went ahead with the interview as he believes that schools attempting to teach the Holocaust in a 50-minute history lesson is 'a disgrace', and is also trying to get the interview played at schools. Listener feedback has said that the interview has been inspiring and interesting and makes one think in disbelief that the Holocaust only happened 60 years ago.
Tim himself has said "This has changed my life and the best thing I have done in a long time" and audience feedback
has been generally positive suggesting that Kerrang! Radio bosses, who were initially skeptical about running an item so different from their usual output until Shaw persuaded them, may have underestimated how supportive the listeners would be.
Shaw became very upset with a listener on the 7 January when a text was received saying "If I wanted to hear something depressing, I would listen to Late Night Love". This angered Tim so much that he stopped the interview and had to play a song so he could cool down. The interview is available on CD.
after he told Jodie Marsh
live on air that he would leave his wife and two children for her. Hayley placed the lot on the auction site at the 'buy it now' price of 50p with the description 'I need to get rid of this car in the next two to three hours before my husband gets home to find it gone and all his belongings in the street.' The car sold within five minutes. The scandal made international news and Shaw even made a live apology to his wife on Channel 4
's Richard & Judy
show. He then bought the car back for £5000.
contestants, Tim was attacked after he covertly filmed up Lianne's skirt with a webcam during the interview. The images of Lianne's underwear were broadcast live on the Kerrang website and after receiving a text message from a friend, Lunt punched the presenter and the couple walked out of the interview.
Shaw was also deemed to be in breach of Ofcom
standards for broadcasting a live telephone call Shaw made to his grandmother in which he said (in his own voice) that "Timothy Shaw died today" to the audible dismay of his grandmother followed by revealing that it he was just a joke, resulting in her putting the phone down on him.
. A number of The Asylum calls, wind-up's and features were on the show. Tim subsequently won the "Best Breakfast Show/Morning Entertainment Category" at the New York Radio Awards 2007.
The show had been gaining popularity and a growing audience according to Kerrang! Radio figures.
It has also been noted that the station's managers had a direct mobile link to the station. This allowed them to cut Tim's show off if anything inappropriate was said, and allow it to be replaced with an emergency broadcast.
On the Friday night Absolution
show of 13 November 2009, Shaw announced that the show would be coming to an end after the following night's programme. The format of the last shows was to play Tim's and the viewer's favourite moments. Tim Shaw said that when audiences knew about 'the project he was making way for', they would understand why his contract was self-terminated 6 months early. Tim said he was extremely 'pleased' with the show, and how no complaints were taken further by OFCOM
.
and Networked on Orion Media
stations Wyvern, Beacon & Mercia each Friday and Saturday night, 10pm - 1am, with help from members of his team Jamie Lee, Pants, Slippy Knickers & Donkhole plus various guests. The show takes almost the same format as his former Absolute Radio and Kerrang! Radio shows "The Absolution" and "The Asylum". The first show aired on 15 January 2010.
The last show aired 3 June 2010 as Tim was offered a new job at Sky and at the same time that Orion Media
decided to give The Sanctuary type of show two more shows on Friday and Saturdays.
The show won Gold in Best Personality: Network/Syndicated at the New York Festivals Radio Program and Promotion Awards 2010.
in North West of England. Rock FM is owned by the same company that owns Kerrang radio, whom sacked him 4 years previously.
" which is currently in its third season (Tim joined on the second season). In this he is called "Mr. Inappropriate", and does outrageous things such as masturbating in a corner shop, asking for his pubic hair to be cut in a "short back and sides" in a hairdresser, and pulling his pants down in the middle of a conversation. He became a teacher in one of his clips, and he taught the foreign students offensive phrases such as "go home Johnny Foreigner" and "bellend". He also embarrassed a bald man by claiming in public that he dropped a wig, and tried his luck selling double glazing at 4 AM, similar to the segment on The Asylum. As well as farting, he pretended to smoke Crack outside a pub.
Next he bought a Type 3 Razored-Edge Karmann Ghia from some local travellers for £500. It took him 3 years to rebuild and was completed 3 months after he passed his driving test, in the days when classic car insurance was £200 fully comprehensive for a 17 year old!
Since then it has been a story of mostly Saab Turbos, BMWs, VWs and 5 pot Audis. However along the way there has been the odd brain malfunction with the purchase of Nova SRs, Rover 600 Turbos, Volvos, Range Rovers and Minis.
Tim’s greatest feat was totally rebuilding a written-off Lotus Esprit Turbo, managing to extract over 400 bhp from the 2.2 litre engine. This car hit the headlines when his wife Hayley sold it on eBay for 50p after a “lover’s tiff”...
(from the fifth gear website)
a show that explores male vanity and the various beauty standards that are placed on men but often overlooked. Throughout the course of the show he explores people's reactions to his own body and makes choices on how to improve himself that include a change in diet, plastic surgery and exercise.
on Friday nights at 11:00PM, He interviews members of the public that have extraordinary stories to tell.
. He realises that he has put the rapist and his wife onto the same plane again and goes out to save his wife. Tim hopes that the film will be a great success because of the controversy it will generate, and because it is the first film ever to be produced through a radio show. Since conception, a script has been written but no further news had been published since the end of the Asylum show.
. His car consists of a BMW
chassis and a carbon fibre bonnet with a flexible retractable roof
. It's also fitted with LCD screens on the passenger seats and the boot
. It cost him 39p in total.
through advertisements on his website during the event. Over 8 million people watched the event throughout the period.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
radio DJ and TV Presenter. He has two children with his wife Hayley. He is regarded as the UK's most controversial broadcasters of all time.
Shaw has been sacked from almost every radio station he's worked at, and been given the largest fine in history for breaking radio regulations.
His radio show often features secret recordings and phonecalls he makes to his family and friends, sometimes even live, but also very candid and honest interviews with guests who have included Kitty Hart-Moxon
Kitty Hart-Moxon
Kitty Hart-Moxon OBE is a Polish-English Holocaust survivor. She was sent to the Auschwitz labour camp in 1943 at the age of 16, where she survived for two years, and was also imprisoned at other camps...
, a survivor of the Holocaust, astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history...
and former underworld gangster Dave Courtney
Dave Courtney
Dave Courtney is a self-proclaimed British former gangster who has become both an author and celebrity-gangster figure...
. He currently hosts a weekend afternoon show on 97.4 Rock FM
97.4 Rock FM
97.4 Rock FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Lancashire, North West England and some parts of North Wales. Its output is mainly contemporary pop and current chart hits. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations...
in North West England.
Radio Stations worked on
He has worked on over 13 different radio stations including BRMBBrmb
brmb is a local radio station based in Birmingham, UK, owned and operated by Orion Media. The station broadcasts on 96.4 FM, DAB Digital Radio in the West Midlands and online...
, Beacon
Beacon (Radio)
Beacon , is an independent local radio station, broadcasting to the Black Country and Shropshire in the West Midlands region of England.-History:The station began broadcasting to Wolverhampton and the Black Country from studios at 267 Tettenhall Road,...
, Century FM
Century FM
Century Radio was the brand name of a group of independent local radio stations in England. The brand was developed with the launch of 100-102 Century Radio in North East England in 1994, with John Myers as managing director and John Simons as programme director...
, Hallam FM
Hallam FM
Hallam FM is an independent local radio station serving South Yorkshire and the North Midlands from studios in Sheffield. The station is owned and operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations.-History:...
, Magic Radio
Magic Radio
Magic is a music radio and a TV brand in the United Kingdom, run by the German publishing company Bauer.-Magic Radio in United Kingdom:...
, Kerrang! Radio, Kiss 100
Kiss 100 London
Kiss is a UK radio station broadcasting on FM and Digital Radio, specialising in hip hop, R&B, urban and electronic dance music. It also broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio around the UK & nationally on Freeview, Sky and TalkTalk TV...
and most recently Absolute Radio, BBC WM, BBC Midlands Network (9 stations)
He replaced Jeremy Kyle
Jeremy Kyle
Jeremy Kyle is an English radio and television presenter, best known for his British daytime television chat show on ITV, The Jeremy Kyle Show. Kyle is also the host of an American talk show of the same name that premiered on 19 September 2011.-Radio career:From 1986 to 1995, Kyle worked as a...
on the Orion Media
Orion Media
Orion Media is a UK commercial radio group run by radio veteran Phil Riley and backed by Lloyds TSB Development Capital. It was created from the enforced sale of several radio stations in the English Midlands owned and operated by Global Radio.-History:...
Network when Kyle moved to Century FM
Century FM
Century Radio was the brand name of a group of independent local radio stations in England. The brand was developed with the launch of 100-102 Century Radio in North East England in 1994, with John Myers as managing director and John Simons as programme director...
.
Kerrang! Radio - The Asylum
Shaw began working for Kerrang! Radio in 2004, on The Asylum. It broadcast between 22:00 and 01:00 Sunday to Thursday with help from members of his team nicknamed Juicy Lucy,Donkhole, Nob Holder, Slippy Knickers, Chris Peacock and Toenail and his special friend Judith the Clairvoyant to name a few. The show ended on 20 September 2007.
Shaw's greatest controversy was in 2005 when he and his then colleague Greg Prebble broke into the house of Kerrang Radio's then station director, Andrew Jeffries, live on air. Jeffries returned to his house at 11:20 pm believing that he had been burgled when Tim and his colleague burst out of the cupboards. Tim was immediately suspended 'until further notice' and did not return to Kerrang! Radio for a month.
Holocaust interview
Near the end of 2006, Tim interviewed Kitty Hart-MoxonKitty Hart-Moxon
Kitty Hart-Moxon OBE is a Polish-English Holocaust survivor. She was sent to the Auschwitz labour camp in 1943 at the age of 16, where she survived for two years, and was also imprisoned at other camps...
, a survivor of the Holocaust and the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Shaw believed that the interview would last 1 hour and 30 minutes but it actually lasted just under 7 hours. Shaw went ahead with the interview as he believes that schools attempting to teach the Holocaust in a 50-minute history lesson is 'a disgrace', and is also trying to get the interview played at schools. Listener feedback has said that the interview has been inspiring and interesting and makes one think in disbelief that the Holocaust only happened 60 years ago.
Tim himself has said "This has changed my life and the best thing I have done in a long time" and audience feedback
Feedback
Feedback describes the situation when output from an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or occurrences of the same Feedback describes the situation when output from (or information about the result of) an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or...
has been generally positive suggesting that Kerrang! Radio bosses, who were initially skeptical about running an item so different from their usual output until Shaw persuaded them, may have underestimated how supportive the listeners would be.
Shaw became very upset with a listener on the 7 January when a text was received saying "If I wanted to hear something depressing, I would listen to Late Night Love". This angered Tim so much that he stopped the interview and had to play a song so he could cool down. The interview is available on CD.
Lotus Esprit
Shaw's wife, Hayley, sold his Lotus Esprit, worth £25,000, for 50p on eBayEBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
after he told Jodie Marsh
Jodie Marsh
Jodie Marsh is an English media personality, former glamour model and bodybuilder. She has appeared topless in many tabloid newspapers and has appeared in her own reality show, Totally Jodie Marsh.-Early life:...
live on air that he would leave his wife and two children for her. Hayley placed the lot on the auction site at the 'buy it now' price of 50p with the description 'I need to get rid of this car in the next two to three hours before my husband gets home to find it gone and all his belongings in the street.' The car sold within five minutes. The scandal made international news and Shaw even made a live apology to his wife on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
's Richard & Judy
Richard & Judy
Richard & Judy was a British magazine/chat show which was presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. It originally aired on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2008 but later moved to digital channel Watch in October 2008. It featured the world's most famous stars, along with their Book Club...
show. He then bought the car back for £5000.
Controversy
In April 2007 during an interview with the couple Ben Lunt and Lianne Dauban about their time as Shipwrecked 2007Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2007
Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands is a UK reality television series on Channel 4. The fifth series of Shipwrecked was aired in 2007 and used the "Battle of the Islands" format, which was first seen in the previous year.-The game:...
contestants, Tim was attacked after he covertly filmed up Lianne's skirt with a webcam during the interview. The images of Lianne's underwear were broadcast live on the Kerrang website and after receiving a text message from a friend, Lunt punched the presenter and the couple walked out of the interview.
Shaw was also deemed to be in breach of Ofcom
Ofcom
Ofcom is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002. It received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003...
standards for broadcasting a live telephone call Shaw made to his grandmother in which he said (in his own voice) that "Timothy Shaw died today" to the audible dismay of his grandmother followed by revealing that it he was just a joke, resulting in her putting the phone down on him.
Kiss 100 - Breakfast
In December 2005 Tim, Tony Marks (Nob Holder 2) and Neev presented London's Kiss 100Kiss 100 London
Kiss is a UK radio station broadcasting on FM and Digital Radio, specialising in hip hop, R&B, urban and electronic dance music. It also broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio around the UK & nationally on Freeview, Sky and TalkTalk TV...
. A number of The Asylum calls, wind-up's and features were on the show. Tim subsequently won the "Best Breakfast Show/Morning Entertainment Category" at the New York Radio Awards 2007.
Kerrang! Radio - The Morning After
On 11 September 2007 Kerrang! Radio announced that Tim Shaw had been given the breakfast slot replacing Ugly Phil. The show began on 1 October 2007, it was hosted by Tim Shaw & Kate Lawler and aired between 7:00am and 10:00am Monday to Friday.The show had been gaining popularity and a growing audience according to Kerrang! Radio figures.
Controversy
Tim Shaw was suspended from Kerrang Radio on 23 April 2008. On 9 May 2008 Kerrang broadcast a message stating that Tim Shaw's contract with the station had been ended for fixing the results of a competition. His profile has been deleted from the stations website and The Morning After is now presented by Simon James and Hill.Absolute Radio - Absolution
Tim presented "Absolution" on Absolute Radio (formerly Virgin Radio) each Friday and Saturday night, 10pm - 1am, with help from members of his team Roque, Eloise and Pants and then later was joined by Peta and Nob Holder 3rd. The show takes almost the same format as his former Kerrang! Radio show, The Asylum. The first show aired on 3 October 2008. With the original team of Roque Segade-Vieito and Eloise Carr, Tim won a Bronze Sony Award for Best Entertainment Show in 2009.It has also been noted that the station's managers had a direct mobile link to the station. This allowed them to cut Tim's show off if anything inappropriate was said, and allow it to be replaced with an emergency broadcast.
On the Friday night Absolution
Absolution
Absolution is a traditional theological term for the forgiveness experienced in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This concept is found in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the Eastern Orthodox churches, the Anglican churches, and most Lutheran churches....
show of 13 November 2009, Shaw announced that the show would be coming to an end after the following night's programme. The format of the last shows was to play Tim's and the viewer's favourite moments. Tim Shaw said that when audiences knew about 'the project he was making way for', they would understand why his contract was self-terminated 6 months early. Tim said he was extremely 'pleased' with the show, and how no complaints were taken further by OFCOM
Ofcom
Ofcom is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002. It received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003...
.
Controversy
Tim was suspended for 2 weeks in February after broadcasting content that "crossed the line", offending a minority of listeners. This led to him having to make apologies every half an hour for his next 2 shows once he returned. Along with this, Tim and the presenters involved also received written warnings.BRMB/Orion Media - Rehab
Tim presented "Tim Shaw's Rehab" on BRMBBrmb
brmb is a local radio station based in Birmingham, UK, owned and operated by Orion Media. The station broadcasts on 96.4 FM, DAB Digital Radio in the West Midlands and online...
and Networked on Orion Media
Orion Media
Orion Media is a UK commercial radio group run by radio veteran Phil Riley and backed by Lloyds TSB Development Capital. It was created from the enforced sale of several radio stations in the English Midlands owned and operated by Global Radio.-History:...
stations Wyvern, Beacon & Mercia each Friday and Saturday night, 10pm - 1am, with help from members of his team Jamie Lee, Pants, Slippy Knickers & Donkhole plus various guests. The show takes almost the same format as his former Absolute Radio and Kerrang! Radio shows "The Absolution" and "The Asylum". The first show aired on 15 January 2010.
The last show aired 3 June 2010 as Tim was offered a new job at Sky and at the same time that Orion Media
Orion Media
Orion Media is a UK commercial radio group run by radio veteran Phil Riley and backed by Lloyds TSB Development Capital. It was created from the enforced sale of several radio stations in the English Midlands owned and operated by Global Radio.-History:...
decided to give The Sanctuary type of show two more shows on Friday and Saturdays.
The show won Gold in Best Personality: Network/Syndicated at the New York Festivals Radio Program and Promotion Awards 2010.
97.4 Rock FM
Tim also now hosts a weekend afternoon show on 97.4 Rock FM97.4 Rock FM
97.4 Rock FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Lancashire, North West England and some parts of North Wales. Its output is mainly contemporary pop and current chart hits. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations...
in North West of England. Rock FM is owned by the same company that owns Kerrang radio, whom sacked him 4 years previously.
Balls Of Steel
Tim is featured on Channel 4's "Balls Of SteelBalls of Steel (TV series)
Balls of Steel is a Channel 4 comedy series developed by Objective Productions and hosted by Mark Dolan, his special guests would perform stunts and hold their nerve during hidden camera set-ups in the presence of celebrities or the British public....
" which is currently in its third season (Tim joined on the second season). In this he is called "Mr. Inappropriate", and does outrageous things such as masturbating in a corner shop, asking for his pubic hair to be cut in a "short back and sides" in a hairdresser, and pulling his pants down in the middle of a conversation. He became a teacher in one of his clips, and he taught the foreign students offensive phrases such as "go home Johnny Foreigner" and "bellend". He also embarrassed a bald man by claiming in public that he dropped a wig, and tried his luck selling double glazing at 4 AM, similar to the segment on The Asylum. As well as farting, he pretended to smoke Crack outside a pub.
Fifth Gear
Although Tim is best known as a radio presenter on Virgin and Kerrang, his real passion is cars. He studied Automotive Transport Design at Coventry University, and he joins the Fifth Gear team as the official “people’s champion”, tackling all the issues that wind petrol heads RIGHT up. At the age of 12 Tim’s grandparents gave him his first car – a Morris 1100. Within 2 months, a car that only needed a new steering rack and front sub frame was in the scrap yard. Two years later he completed his first engine rebuild of a VW Beetle.Next he bought a Type 3 Razored-Edge Karmann Ghia from some local travellers for £500. It took him 3 years to rebuild and was completed 3 months after he passed his driving test, in the days when classic car insurance was £200 fully comprehensive for a 17 year old!
Since then it has been a story of mostly Saab Turbos, BMWs, VWs and 5 pot Audis. However along the way there has been the odd brain malfunction with the purchase of Nova SRs, Rover 600 Turbos, Volvos, Range Rovers and Minis.
Tim’s greatest feat was totally rebuilding a written-off Lotus Esprit Turbo, managing to extract over 400 bhp from the 2.2 litre engine. This car hit the headlines when his wife Hayley sold it on eBay for 50p after a “lover’s tiff”...
(from the fifth gear website)
Extreme Male Beauty
In May 2009, Tim hosted Extreme Male BeautyExtreme Male Beauty
Extreme Male Beauty is a British documentary series which began airing on Channel 4 and features television presenter Tim Shaw as he explores the various lengths men will go to in order to achieve the beauty standards placed on them....
a show that explores male vanity and the various beauty standards that are placed on men but often overlooked. Throughout the course of the show he explores people's reactions to his own body and makes choices on how to improve himself that include a change in diet, plastic surgery and exercise.
Tim Shaw &...
Tim hosts a chat show on Current TVCurrent TV
Current TV, or Current, is a media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt. Comcast owns a ten percent stake of Current's parent company, Current Media LLC....
on Friday nights at 11:00PM, He interviews members of the public that have extraordinary stories to tell.
timshaw.co.uk
During 2006, timshaw.co.uk was set up as a medium to allow fans of the radio show host to see what Tim has experienced in his life so far. The site continues to this day and is currently undergoing a facelift.Try Dying
Tim Shaw was trying to develop a film through his Asylum radio show, called "Try Dying". It is based on the idea that when you have an accident, your life splits. On one "plane" of life you die, but on another you survive and carry on with your life. In the movie a man and his wife are deeply in love, but then she is raped and murdered. He is distraught, and tracks down and kills the rapist. He is especially upset when the police question him over his wife's murder. He then makes contact with a man who tells him that the only way to see his wife again is to commit suicideSuicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
. He realises that he has put the rapist and his wife onto the same plane again and goes out to save his wife. Tim hopes that the film will be a great success because of the controversy it will generate, and because it is the first film ever to be produced through a radio show. Since conception, a script has been written but no further news had been published since the end of the Asylum show.
The 50p Car
In response to his wife selling his Lotus Esprit for 50p, Tim decided to build a £50,000 car with only 50p. He achieved this by asking various manufactures for "free" or extremely cheap parts for his car. He has since completed the project and appeared on ITV's Pulling PowerPulling Power
Pulling Power was a regional motoring programme shown only in the Central Television region on ITV in 1996. However, it returned in 2005 and was shown on the ITV1 on a series trial basis until 2008, and it was also as a filler programme at times. It has also been shown on ITV4. Presenters included...
. His car consists of a BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
chassis and a carbon fibre bonnet with a flexible retractable roof
Retractable roof
A retractable roof is a kinetic architectural element used in many sports venues, in which a roof made of a suitable material can readily be mechanically deployed from some retracted or open position into a closed or extended position that completely covers the field of play and spectator areas...
. It's also fitted with LCD screens on the passenger seats and the boot
Trunk (automobile)
The trunk or boot of an automobile or car is the vehicle's main storage, luggage, or cargo compartment. Trunk is used in North American English and Jamaican English; boot is used elsewhere in the English speaking world. Trunk is also primarily used in many non-English speaking regions, such as...
. It cost him 39p in total.
Man In Box
In February and March 2010 Tim spent 30 days locked inside a box. The location of the box was unknown, even to Tim. The box had two cameras streaming live online constantly. Through this one could guess where Tim was hidden. To do so, a user had to watch the stream daily for clues, then submit a location guess via the Man In Box website. No one found Tim, but he did raise money for Help for HeroesHelp for Heroes
Help for Heroes is a British charity launched on 1 October 2007 to help provide better facilities for British servicemen and women wounded since September 11, 2001. It was founded by Bryn Parry OBE and his wife Emma Parry OBE after they visited soldiers at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham...
through advertisements on his website during the event. Over 8 million people watched the event throughout the period.
Global Radio and Sony Radio Awards
- 2005 New York Radio Awards for The Asylum
- 2006 best radio show Working Title films
- 2007 Tim was awarded 4 GOLDS in the following categories:
- Talk Special- 'The Holocaust' an interview with holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon
- KISS 100 Best Breakfast Show/Morning Entertainment Category
- Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy Programme - The Asylum
- Bronze award for Best Regularly Scheduled Talk Programme - The Asylum
- 2010 SONY Radio Awards - won Entertainment cat. Beaten to gold by Chris Evans for show on Absolute Radio. Formerly Virgin Radio
- 2011 NY Global radio Awards. Gold award. Best comedy category
- 2011 NY Global radio Awards. Best interview.
- 2011 NY Global radio Awards. Best show imaging.