Would-Be Mp Bides His Time for Re-Run ; Aspiring Politician, Radio Personality and Public Relations Firm Boss Graham Robb has Battled Peter Mandelson for a Parliamentary Seat and Dined with David Cameron. Peter Mccusker Finds How He has Balanced Work and Politics.

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WHEN Graham Robb told his mother Sylvia he wanted to be a radio DJ she told him to change his name, adding: "I'm not having it".

Within a few weeks Robb had enrolled on a audio-visual technology course at a Middlesbrough college. He says the qualification bit helped persuade his mother it was a worthwhile career.

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Would-Be Mp Bides His Time for Re-Run ; Aspiring Politician, Radio Personality and Public Relations Firm Boss Graham Robb has Battled Peter Mandelson for a Parliamentary Seat and Dined with David Cameron. Peter Mccusker Finds How He has Balanced Work and Politics.

Later the controller of Radio Tees came to visit the budding broadcasters on the course so Robb asked him for a job and after a trial he landed the 1am to 5am slot.

"Prostitutes, insomniacs and mad people were my listeners. I'd go to college, have a sleep and then head off to work," he smiles.

This was all before he had turned 18. His coming of age saw him promote...

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