Bob Brolly presented a long-running programmes on BBC CWR and BBC Radio WM for several years, where he is probably best known for a weekly Irish music show aired on Sunday afternoons.
13 Facts About Bob Brolly
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On 27 August 2023, Bob Brolly presented what turned out to be his final Sunday afternoon show for BBC Local Radio in the West Midlands.
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Bob Brolly first began singing as a boy, as a member of the Waterside Chapel choir in Derry, but did not become a professional musician until much later in life, and when his family entered the pub trade.
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Bob Brolly has enjoyed a successful solo career, appearing at venues including the Wembley Arena in London, and the National Indoor Arena and Symphony Hall in Birmingham.
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Bob Brolly has released several albums, many featuring covers of popular songs.
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Bob Brolly's 2012 album, Till We Meet Again is a collection of mostly original material.
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In 1994, and along with fellow broadcaster Stuart Linnell and the Coventry Telegraph, Bob Brolly founded the Snowball charity to raise funds for good causes.
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Bob Brolly hosted his first charity fundraising ball in 1999, in aid of the Omagh Victim Support Fund and Leukemia Research, and featuring Irish artists and personalities such as Brendan Shine, Foster and Allen, Barry McGuigan and Majella O'Donnell.
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Bob Brolly was awarded the MBE in the 2003 New Year Honours for his services to charity and broadcasting.
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Bob Brolly is a past winner of the Irish World Radio Presenter of the Year Award, and the Irish Post Media Person of the Year Award.
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In November 2005 Bob Brolly was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack.
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Bob Brolly subsequently gave his backing to the Derek Higgs Start a Heart Appeal, an appeal named in honour of former Coventry City FC director Derek Higgs, and which sought to raise funds for fifty defibrillators that would be placed at locations around Coventry.
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Bob Brolly is a patron for the Zoe's Place Baby Hospice in Coventry.