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. Some other people have written about me. How kind...

Matthew Collins
Ben & Amanda Smith

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There's a nicely out of date profile at The Voiceworks: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.

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, cocktails, body boarding, fudge, biking, Scrubs, skiing, and pasties.