Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has been nominated forradio broadcaster of the year in this year's annual Broadcasting Press GuildAwards.Cocker, whopresents shows on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music, is up against Radio 4 news presenterMartha Kearney and former newsreader Charlotte Green.
Green, famousfor her occasional giggles, was nominated in recognition of her 25-year careerat Radio 4.
The awards arevoted for by a panel of media journalists.
Previousrecipients of the broadcaster of the year award include Sir Terry Wogan,Jonathan Ross and Kirsty Young.
Cocker became afigurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s through his band, whosehits included Common People and Disco 2000. He began presenting his SundayService show on 6 Music in January 2010.
He won therising star prize at the Sony Radio Academy Awards later that year.
His Radio 4show, Wireless Nights, sees him take listeners "on a nocturnal journeyaround stories of night people".
Others in therunning for an guild award in March include BBC Radio 3's World and Music, asequence of classical music interspersed with both popular and less familiarpoems and prose read by leading actors.
The judgesdescribed it as an "overlooked jewel" in the BBC's crown.
Radio 4'scomedy series Cabin Pressure (see pic), featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam,has been nominated for best radio programme along with James Joyce's Ulysses, aRadio 4 dramatisation to mark Bloomsday, the day in June when the book's eventstake place.
They willcompete against Soul Music, another Radio 4 series, about music that has astrong emotional impact.
The winnerswill be announced at an awards lunch in London on 14 March.
Source: BBC
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