Eric Dixon

Eric Dixon has over twenty years’ experience in broadcast and print media. He has presented programmes and news bulletins for various BBC local radio stations, BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC World Service and News Direct for Reuters and ITN. As a print journalist he has written articles for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and The Observer, as well as national tabloid newspapers. Eric is also an accomplished public speaker and compère, who hosts events across the UK including the BBC Good Food Show and BBC Gardener’s World Live. In front of the microphone Eric is the voice behind hundreds of TV and radio commercials including the ‘Homebase’ radio and TV campaign.

He has a 1st class BA (Hons) degree in English.

Eric has combined his roles with media training for more than ten years and in that time has led media training workshops in Europe and Saudi Arabia, for the financial and property industry, with UK politicians and with the police. His commercial clients have included some of the world’ s largest companies including Lloyds TSB, GlaxoSmithKline and Vodafone.

Eric is an occasional trainer with The Media Coach.

Please click play to watch a short presentation from Eric.

I have to say that I was sceptical in the beginning but following the radio debate, I now can’t find the words to describe how extremely worthwhile it was! What proved useful was the fact that we had pre-empted and anticipated all the key issues that were likely to emerge during the radio debate and that we had thought through and rehearsed our positions in advance. And you know what? Every single issue we anticipated came up and I was able to provide clear, articulate and properly thought-through responses!

The most important thing for me though was because of this, I relaxed! Instead of sitting nervously and worrying about what questions would be flung at me, I sat back and enjoyed the debate and I think that this contributed to what I am told was a really good performance (the BBC team wrote to say that I was unanimously the best panellist on the debate and I feel I should share the credit with you!)

I have already given feedback on the training session to others in Actionaid and would very highly recommend you to others for the excellent job you are doing.

I look forward to working with you again!

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