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Mike Hurley is a multi award-winning voiceover and radio presenter who has worked the other side of the glass as a radio copywriter/director on some of the UK’s biggest radio campaigns through his production company, The Creative Department.
He has been a judge at Clio, the Sony Awards, the London International Awards, the Rediffusion Awards, Mobius, the Irish Awards, the UK Radio Advertising Awards, Creative Circle and the Radio Festival of New York, all of which he’s won (in those year’s he wasn’t a judge!)
He has lectured on voicing and production at conferences and seminars in South Africa, Kenya, Malta, Marbella, Oslo and Dublin and was a keynote speaker at the first three UK Creative Circle radio workshops at London’s BAFTA.
Professionally, Mike is a Member of the Institute of Directors, the British Institute of Management, the Institute of Public Relations, British Equity, a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and an Affiliate of the Charted Institute of Transport.
Off-duty he is a member of the London Omnibus Traction Society, Leodiensian RUFC, a lifetime member of Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, a qualified rugby and cricket coach, and holds PSV1 and HGV1 driving licences.
Mike knows all the voicing tricks and shortcuts to plough through the heaviest sessions in double-quick time - as one producer said: "Get home early with one-take Hurley". If you’re under pressure, let off steam with someone who’s been in the same sauna.
Mike's ISDN studio, Ventriloquist
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This is the logo for Ventriloquist: some people get it immediately, others have to have it explained. Either way, it won a Cream Creative Award.
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If you want a techspec, it approximates:-
- Alice desk
- Sony MXD-D4 minidisc recorder
- Sony 60ES DAT recorder
- 2 x Studer B67 reel to reel
- CDQ Prima 120 Codec
- Cool Edit mp3 and wav facilities
- Iomega zipCD burner
- Teac C-2X cassette deck dbx
- 160A compressor/limiter
But as you’ll be doing the technical tweaking your end, you’d prefer to know the microphone, and it doesn’t come any better than a Neumann U-47: Mike picked it up for £50 in a studio closure sale in 1986, and was offered £500 for it the next day! He chose to keep it: just listen and you’ll appreciate why.
Hurley, Neumann and Ventriloquist, not a firm of solicitors, but the most experienced and unbeatable source of sound you’ll find.
Mike presenting "Hurley-Burley" on BBC Radio York, Saturday
mornings 9 - 12.
Peter
Davidson recording HSBC Bank commercials at Ventriloquist
"Dr Who, What, Where the hell is Goole?"
Mike’s
bus - never drink at lunchtime, its amazing what you’ll buy 
Mike's RM 7 - the registration
plate is worth more than the vehicle!
Mike
got his Heavy Goods licence on this lorry
Welwyn Lorry
Mike’s
last show on Pennine Radio, Bradford in 1979 - the shirt is now a tablecloth.
"Early with Hurley", weekday breakfast 6 - 9.
At
the Ogilvy & Mather radio masterclass in Kenya. Can you spot Mike in the
shot?
O & M masterclass Kenya (that's him in the middle at the back)
On
a 4x4 course in deepest Somerset
Mike at the wheel
Mike
with Colin Blunstone, ex-lead singer of The Zombies, Mike's favourite
group. Pathetic isn't it?
Mike and Colin Blunstone
King
Michael preaching the Gospel according to alcohol...
Mike on Boxing Day
2000
Mike Hurley's "Wall
of Fame"
Can you recognise the
people giving Mike the awards?
The
dog was the photographer’s idea
"His
Master’s Voice!"
Dan
Dan Paul (Yorkshire debutante) and Stevie Gill (second cap) of Leodiensian
RUFC after beating Lancashire at Cleckheaton, March 24th 2002
Dan Dan & Stevie
At the launch of Real
Radio, March 18th 2002 
Dave Borthwick, Mike
Hurley, Graham Elliott, Pete Haslam, Al Dupres and Karl Svenson
I've
finally arrived in life - I've made the front cover of The Dandy
Click on the above front cover to see what it says on the elephant!
An
advertisement seen on the side of a bus
"Guess why they don't advertise on radio"
Rambo
Chicken in her field, one year on
"Happy Birthday"