Gavin Harris
Robert Kenny
Join Robert Kenny for Reading 107 Breakfast every weekday, from 5am-9am. Reading born and bred, he's been with Reading 107 since it launched in 2002.
Quickfire Q&A
Full name: Robert John Matthew Kenny
Birthday: March 6th
Starsign: Pisces
Nickname at school: Didn't really have one, but for a while I was called "Dalglish" as in "Kenny Dalglish". I took it as a compliment being a Liverpool fan, but it was only the name connection and not for my outfield skills! But I was Reading School's top goalie when I was about 10!
Where did you go to school and were you naughty? St. Anne's Primary in Caversham, followed by Presentation College in Southcote (now the Elvian School). I think generally I was good, although I did have a complaint from one girl's mum at St. Anne's that I was a bit over ambitious when playing kiss-chase.
First job - and would you do it again? Working in a shop that sold curtain fabrics, and going to people's homes to measure what they need for curtain tracks/poles etc. I probably would do it again - it was pretty good fun, although it really depends on who you're working with and not necessarily what you're doing. Perhaps I should just get all the fabric shop team to come and work at Reading 107?! It'd probably be curtains for my career but I could sign off with "Material Girl". I knew all those so called "jokes" would come in handy sometime.
While the music's playing, what do you do? Read the paper, read emails, read texts. A lot of reading - that's why we're called Reading 107, see.
Do you have any embarrassing albums in your collection at home? Not that I can think of...though I haven't seen most of my albums for ages 'cos so much of it's on vinyl and I don't have a record player. You'd find anything from Spandau Ballet to Razorlight in there. Actually I've just thought...I did buy Hazell Dean's album about a hundred years ago... I suppose that's quite high on the embarrassment scale!
Favourite place to eat? Loads of places, but The Griffin in Caversham gets a special star.
Favourite pub? Loads of places, but The Griffin in Caversham gets a special star.
Reading's best-kept secret? Caversham Court. Used to go there when I was little and remember having "rolling down the hill" races against my sisters. It's just occurred to me that maybe they wanted me to keep rolling into the Thames?? When I was that young I didn't really appreciate it's proximity to The Griffin. Is there a theme emerging here?
