Biography
Buzz Hawkins
Writer, composer, musician, producer and comic, he is known best for writing and voicing the cult comedy radio show “The Bradshaws” which began on Piccadilly Radio’s “Night Beat” in 1982. The shows have twice been nominated for the Sony “Best Use Of Comedy On Radio” Award and currently run on many radio stations in the UK (BBC Merseyside, BBC Lancashire, BBC Manchester, Peak 107, Fresh Radio, and others) as well as in Australia, Abu Dhabi, Canada, Spain, South Africa and Tenerife. His website www.thebradshaws.biz has been awarded a Visionary Design Award for its accessibility by visually impaired people.
The Bradshaws are Alf, Audrey and little Billy Bradshaw, an ordinary family living an ordinary life in an ordinary two-up two-down terraced house. Where? Somewhere in the North. When? In pounds, shillings and pence time when convenience food was bread and dripping, sugar butties, condensed milk butties… Little Billy is only seven (“I’m nearly eight!”) and already a legend in his own bath time. As well as the Bradshaws, Billy has made numerous television appearances all by himself. Billy’s’ Stranger Danger video is currently in use in thousands of schools. When you meet him, you’ll want to adopt him but you’ll never prise him from his mam, Audrey. Alf says he’d swop him for a crate of brown ale.
In 1994 a British Television Corporation, Granada TV showed his ten-part series of “The Bradshaws” which attracted great viewing figures, as a result of this Buzz is now working on a new series via his own production company.
Buzz has just mastered 300 Bradshaws radio stories on CD. The 25 CD Collection is scheduled for release in October 2006 to celebrate the approach of 25 years of The Bradshaws on air.
He has been a radio producer since 1986 and has also produced several television series including "Comedians", "Stuart's Hall Of Fame" and “Foo Foo” on Granada Plus, and wrote many TV sketches for The Grumbleweeds and comedian Norman Collier.
Buzz regularly takes his one-man shows on tour around the UK and he is in great demand as an after-dinner speaker. He is a director of Made In Manchester Ltd, an independent television production company.
His British TV appearances include “Opportunity Knocks”, “Fame Game”, “Telethon”, “That’s Entertainment” and Peter Kay’s “Phoenix Nights”,
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