Radio:
One of the strangest things I think a live performer can do is present on radio. Suddenly your audience isn't visible and you receive no reaction (apart from the live phone calls). It's like cracking a gag to a brick wall. I trained at C4TRT - the Centre for Television and Radio Training in London. After this intensive course (seriously - it's knackering!) I grabbed any grave-yard shift I could. A lucky break came 6 months later and I secured my own breakfast show on Paradise FM which I did weekdays 7-10am for nearly two years. I also presented Drive-Time on Kool FM. I had a co-presenter at that time too and we were given a lot of slack to create our own features. One of them was called 'Jay's Magic that you Can't Actually See' and I would perform joke presentations of magic tricks on-air. An example; we performed a famous trick called Catching a Bullet in the Teeth. As our listener you would have heard me talk about the trick and the fact that more magicians have died performing this than any other trick (which is true), and then had my co-host load the gun and fire shot after shot which continually missed my mouth (no jokes). The studio window smashed through, the producer of the show went down with a bullet in his chest and so on. We never did catch the bullet.

The feature was cancelled the day I did a straitjacket escape to Queen's 'I Want to Break Free'. I just about made it, but missed going into the news on the hour by 2 seconds (which is serious time in the world of radio) and either I had to go or the feature. But hey, we received great press coverage within the radio industry for that one!

On the back of my breakfast show, I created Radio Magic - a specialist radio show for magicians. We broadcast for one year and became the world's number 1 show in its field. RadioMagic.co.uk was launched and became the online version of the live show. Our studio’s were based in Harvey FM and we broadcast Monday evenings at 8pm on FM and across the world on the internet. Radio Magic was featured on the 2006 DVD Ever-So-Sleightly, a documentary about magic and magicians.

One of the regular features of the live show was interviewing the stars of magic and this has led to the creation of The Magic Interview Series which, along with other merchandise from the show, can now be found on eMagicalMedia.com; a specialist website offering media for magicians.

I've also had the opportunity of recording some comedy sketches at BBC Radio One. Yep, radio's great!