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About Bernard Allen

Exceedingly Tall

Most people agree that I am very tall and take every opportunity to tell me this. I find the constant reminders very handy. They tend to admit a lot less often that I am 'devastingly handsome', 'extremely nice' and usually sober' but I know they're thinking it.

Comedy Genius

A legend in my own mind, here are some highlights of my torrid life so far:

Zany Goofball

Studied Chemistry at UEA (Norwich) and took up student radio (Livewire) and drama with UEA DramaSoc and Next Best Thing.

As a half-hearted actor, my roles included appearing in a dog's collar, as a cardboard cutout (my most critically acclaimed performance) and a director in a farce what I wrote with some other people called 'Nietzsche: The Musical'.

Later I appeared as a yet another vicar in Chichester Festival Theatre's production of 'The Barchester Chronicles'.

Next Best Thing Productions

Z-List Celebrity

After university I managed to blag a night shift on Broadland 102 in Norwich, before moving back to Chichester to help set up Spirit FM.

Highlights included hosting the Barnham Christmas Late Night Shopping Event, opening a leisure centre with Fox from Gladiators and broadcasting live on the Big Breakfast. Barnham was the best gig though...

There's a hopelessly out-of-date profile at The Voiceworks:

The Voiceworks


It's All For Charity, Mate

I support Cancer Research UK and through the years have completed sponsored events including cycle rides, leg waxing and a tandem sky dive.

I also enjoyed a trip on the Sail Training Association ship Sir Winston Churchill, producing a series of reports about our adventures.

More recently, Becky and I biked from John O'Groats to Land's End for Cancer Research UK and Guide Dogs.

John O'Groats to Land's End bike ride
Dreams Come True Tandem Skydive
Sir Winston Churchill Voyage C626

My Better Half

I now live in Wells, Somerset, where I work in communications and marketing.

My glamorous partner is the lovely Becky, who is a doctor. After watching too much Casualty, Becky set her heart at an early age on helping ill people and driving a Ferrari.

Now she works as an anaesthetist, watching people get sliced up with sharp knives and has probably seen enough nasolabial folds to last a lifetime.

We both enjoy walking (and completed the Coast to Coast walk in 2006), cocktails, body boarding, fudge, biking, Scrubs, skiing, and pasties.

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