Meet the Presenters
on Glastonbury Radio!

About our presenters and their programmes

Glastonbury Radio broadcasts live streaming radio programmes worldwide, made by presenters from Glastonbury and elsewhere

ROSS HEMSWORTH is co-owner of Glastonbury Radio along with Jules Bending. He presents Glastonbury Today, Now THAT'S Weird and The Rock Show. Ross is a media veteran, having hosted shows for BBC local radio and various TV shows over the years. He has now settled in the area, in Godney, and he loves all things Glastonbury. It is his aim that the station not only provides a great community radio service, but also a wide range of programming and the opportunity to promote Glastonbury to the world.

Co-owner of the station, JULES BENDING is the man behind Ralph Bending Estate Agents in Glastonbury High Street. This station's Glastonbury Studio is located there. Jules has hit the headlines over the years for his unusual way of describing properties he sells and rents! One such description hailed a house as 'the kind of place where you wipe your feet on the way out'! Jules presents Friday's Glastonbury Today and Ralph's Rant, an audio version of his other website Ralph’s Rag!

HEIDI COUTURE first visited Glastonbury in 2001 and was forever changed by this spiritually potent place. She has her Masters Degree in Communication and taught at university level. Heidi is founder and director of WES, an international Pagan community, and a ritualist, tarot reader and trance prophecy medium. Her interests include Earth-based and Goddess traditions, shamanism, world mythology and British sacred sites. Heidi makes her home in Glastonbury at The Summerlands B&B and Retreat. She does personal tours of Glastonbury's sacred sites and Stonehenge. .

TIM SHUKER is a musicologist and historian who lectures on the classical music circuit, and his weekly programme The Unknown Muse presents an insight into some of the lesser known composers and their lives and times. Find out more at unknownmuse.co.uk. Tim also runs a B&B in Glastonbury, Kylemore House, with his artist partner Tiana Marie.

SACHA KNOP is an international Soulcoach, Soulreader and Freelance Writer, coaching people from Holland, Belgium, America, Switzerland and UK to follow their heart and live their dreams. She has a small guesthouse for retreats and B&B. She has had over 35 of her articles about the Soul published in Holland and UK. She has a passion for life and believes that starting and ending the day right helps build a happy and strong lifestyle. Since her voice is the main instrument she works with and is deeply relaxing and meditative, her show is the perfect way to start your day. Visit her site at soulwise.co.uk

PALDEN JENKINS has lived 28 years in Glastonbury, with fingers in many pies. Till recently he was webmaster of Glastonbury's big IsleofAvalon site. He is a humanitarian working in Bethlehem, Palestine, a webmaster, book editor, photographer, speaker, astrologer and adviser. Palden is a Sixties veteran (Liverpool & LSE), founder of the UK camps movement and author of five books. He presents This is the Light Programme with the help of whizzo Gemini technical director Sir Tulki Joe Jenkins, 11.

JOHN MARTINEAU is editor and publisher of the Wooden Books ancient sciences series which scooped first prize at the New York Book Show 2007 for best non-fiction series. Author of 'A Little Book of Coincidence' on planetary harmonics, he also makes dub music as TIGGA and walks rather fast.

MATT TWEED runs Glastonbury's Pond Life Studios music recording and production company. Currently playing sitar with Transglobal Underground and bass for award-nominated folk singer Martha Tilston he is also well up on superstrings, other dimensions, and black furry inbetweeny things.

TOR WEBSTER has just finished his first seven year cycle in Glastonbury, and recently opened a small shop in the Gauntlet just off Glastonbury High Street which is the same name as his show 'Summer of Love' he has always been interested in hippie culture, especally the music, so on his show he will be playing mainly psychedelic rock from the 60's and 70's, and sharing thoughts on the movement. Check out Tor's film project 'The Rainbow Serpent'.

ESTELLIANE KERMAGORET is 100% born in South Korea, 100% bred in Brittany, and after a little journey through the mists, she has reached the shores of Glastonbury. Originally a student of Arts and Humanities, she eventually got two postgraduate degrees in business. Estelliane is an aromatherapist and reflexologist, an Angel Therapy Practitioner, a Reiki master, a crystal therapist and a NLP/Life Coach practitioner. Estelliane offers sales and marketing consulting and as well holistic services such as readings and teaching spiritual workshops worldwide.

SUE CLARK has been psychic all her life, living in Glastonbury for a year. She has been reading the tarot for approx 12 years. She used to do psychic fairs when she lived in London and she is now starting to do fairs in the South West. She reads from the heart using the tarot. During her programme you can ring in to 01458 837026 for a five-minute reading!

MARK ELLIS is Ross Hemsworth's brother and, although not a resident of Glastonbury, he loves the place and gets here as often as possible. His show focuses on the music that he associates with the town, and his thoughts about and aspirations for Glastonbury. Mark plays in various bands including Dirtie Birtie, who headline many of the large Hell's Angel festivals around Europe. He also has his own twentyfour-track recording studio based in Kent, his home patch.

Journalist GEOFF WARD has been writing the Mysterious West page every Friday in the Western Daily Press newspaper since October 2004, and is also the author of Spirals: the Pattern of Existence, published in 2006 by Green Magic, of Somerset. Each week on his programme, Geoff interviews a special guest, or guests, from the esoteric realm.

PAMMY DINI host of Jazzology, lives and works in the centre of Glastonbury. Involved with the early Women’s Centres in London, and having worked and taught in the Community Arts Studio and Theatre in South London for ten years, she moved to the West Coast of America for a number of years. Her love of Jazz has been a lifelong passion and she is pretty sure is woven into her DNA! You can reach her through her B&B website at http://abundancebb.com.

TREVOR JONES and Dr LIZ WILLIAMS run The Witchcraft Shop in Benedict Street in Glastonbury. The Witching Hour is so popular that it has now become the Witching TWO hours! Presented by Trevor and Liz from The Witchcraft Shop in Benedict Street in Glastonbury, the programme features the latest news and music from the Pagan, Druid and Witchcraft scene. Trevor also presents Thursday's Glastonbury Today.

DAVE STARBUCK is an investigative journalist who gets to the bottom of conspiracy theories and digs out truths which may shock you! He has already made a strong case that Princess Diana was murdered. Dave is a former professional comedy magician turned author, lecturer, investigative journalist and researcher. He is considered by many to be one of the world's top conspiracy theorists and investigators. To get an idea of what you are likely to be in for, visit RevelationAudioVisual.com

GINA ALLAN is Glastonbury Radio's very own psychic sex counsellor! Her late night show is definitely X-rated but she pulls no punches on problems of a relationship or sexual nature. See more about Gina at www.ginaallan.co.uk. Gina is not what you may call your 'normal psychic' and can't be doing with all that love and light stuff! She does however get it right over and over again and this is a show you should listen to, but only if you are NOT easily offended!

DR AMAQUEEN (aka Carl Simpson) is originally from South London's music video scene and has been a resident of Glastonbury for eight years. A DJ and film-maker "infamous in the West Country for Low Down Dirty Funk" theme party nights, including Disfunktional, The Spy Who Funked Me and First Church of Funk. But it's not just about funk! The good Doctor has an eclectic if somewhat psychedelic and sometimes even 'sleazy' tastes in tunes!

WHITEDOG from the band Local Chemistry is active in GAS, the Glastonbury Alternative Scene, that meets at the Riflemans Arms in Glastonbury on Wednesdays.

LONÉ BANG WHITESTAR combines astrological knowledge with guided tours of sacred sites and the exploration of these from a cosmological angle, especially the Glastonbury Zodiac and stone circles. She does astrology and rune readings and looks after the land by serving on the committee of Friends of Bride's Mound.

GEORGINA SIRETT-HARDIE also does astrology and tarot readings, runs workshops, offers esoteric soul healing, support and spiritual counselling, and is a Priestess of Avalon with the Goddess Temple.

ANGELA LONG is a radio veteran who for many years presented a regular show from Tibet. She has worked alongside some of the most spiritual people in the world, and through her Beautiful Radio show she brings you some of what she has seen and learned.

RICK WOOD is a resident and native of Virginia, USA, with a long-time interest in science and the paranormal. He is a member of the Association For Skeptical Enquiry and a regular attendee of programs in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion. Rick has been published by the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, as well as BadPsychics, and has been featured in numerous articles regarding paranormal and religious subject matter.