Shelagh Godwin

Shelagh Godwin's interest in radio was awakened at the age of 10 when she won a children's hour quiz organised by a local radio station in Nairobi, Kenya. From then it was always her urge to get behind a microphone and a mixing desk but she didn't actually do so until she joined Radio Lion Guildford in 1998.

Her father was an Army Chaplain and as she grew up the family travelled widely, living in East Africa, Germany and Singapore. Her travels then and since featured in the regular programme she devised for Radio Lion, Guess the Country.

She is proud to have attended school in Blackheath (South East London), just half a mile from the Greenwich meridian, and to have studied music at Newnham College Cambridge. It was in Cambridge that she met her future husband Jim during an amateur operatic production in which they both took part.

Enthusiastic devotees of classical music, Shelagh and Jim both sing, and as members of the London Bach Choir for many years participated in the music at the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.

Since moving to Godalming in 1972, Shelagh has edited magazines about early music (through a long standing association with the Dolmetsch family in Haslemere), astronomy (an interest kicked off by the reappearance of Halley's Comet in 1986) and is also actively involved in her local church and community in Godalming.

In 1997, after her daughter and son had left home, she took an extended break from her profession as a piano teacher to devote time to radio.

She prepares a regular Sky at Night feature and a Just a Thought slot for Radio Lion.