Xpress Radio is a national award-winning student radio station based at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales, focused on current, popular and new music. The station broadcasts from 9am-1am daily with programming ranging from comedy to film reviews, to the best in new and local music.
Xpress is run by students at the university. It operates from a studio and editing suite on the fourth floor of the Students' Union building. The current station manager of Xpress is Daniel Potts.
Every year Xpress links with Swansea University's station Xtreme Radio to present live coverage of the Welsh Varsity sporting events between the two institutions, including a full live commentary from the Millennium Stadium for Men's Rugby match in the evening.
In 2012 Xpress Radio broadcast a live performance of a Sherlock Holmes parody written by Robert Thomas and Aleks Ford, which was nominated for Best Live Event in the Student Radio Awards. It has also broadcast a Christmas special known as Sherlock Holmes and the Geese of Christmas Past, which was produced by Robert Barratt, written by Robert Thomas and Darren Freebury-Jones.
Ex-members include Vicki Blight (Absolute Radio), Jen Long (BBC Radio One) and Roop and Tom.
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