Quintessential New Yorker, now Brighton resident, Mark Riley is an award-winning broadcast journalist with 40+ years of experience hosting and directing radio programmes and providing political analysis on TV.

Mark has interviewed everyone, from Nelson Mandela to Muhammad Ali, but his true passion point is music.

He’s the co-Founder of "For The Record" (1978), the successor of The New York Record Pool, and from this capacity he’s built extensive accolades as a Club Music afficionado. Mark highly respected for his cross-genre music acumen and he is personally aligned with some of the most iconic names in the history of Club/Dance/Jazz Music globally: The Loft, The Garage, David Mancuso, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Joey Llanos.

From the Brighton area Mark can be streamed on the 2nd and 4th Thursday every month on https://1btn.fm/ and curating for the mobile Tea Room www.teaandgrazing.co.uk