Howard Pearce
Howard Pearce, an original presenter for Radio Victory, is re-joining the team to share his experience and love of music with our listeners.
Howard’s first professional broadcasting job was at Radio Victory as part of the original team that included David Symonds, Dave Christian, Anton Derby, etc. At one point he was simultaneously presenting the Breakfast Show for Victory and the afternoon Drive Show for Radio 210 in Reading five days a week (Radio 210 now Heart FM). At 210 Howard was part of a presenter team that included Mike Read, Steve Wright and Bob Harris.
Howard then joined Radio Luxembourg presenting regular programmes for the famous ‘208’ night-time English service.
On returning to the UK, in addition to daily radio programmes, Howard started specialising in ‘celebrity’ interviews. These included The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Bob Geldof, Janet Jackson, Bryan Adams, The Bee Gees, etc. These initially were for BBC Radio One (Newsbeat) and later for independent syndication.During this time Howard also joined BBC Radio 2 for several series of programmes presenting both the weekend and weekday early breakfast shows, he also presented interview ‘specials’ for the station with the likes of Paul McCartney.
Next Howard began presenting the weekly pop music and celebrity interview programme ‘Soundcheck’. The show was syndicated nationally around the Network Chart Show (now the Big Top 40) on most of the UK’s Independent Radio Network, including Radio Victory.
In 1993 Howard joined Virgin Radio presenting several programmes every week for over 6 years. He worked through various stages of the station’s development including under the leadership of Sir Richard Branson and Chris Evans.
In 2003 Howard joined Smooth FM in London presenting regular music shows. He also hosted the stations live football coverage of every Chelsea FC match during 3 seasons when Chelsea were Premiership Champions and FA Cup holders.
More recently, as broadcasting has increasingly moved onto global online platforms, mobile devices and smart speakers, Howard has presented regular programmes for Sunshine Radio.
Since the mid 90’s these have all run in parallel to Howard’s other business interests, including senior roles at Hogarth Worldwide (part of the WPP Advertising Group) and MurphyCobb and Associates where he was MD of Technology.
Now in 2025, Howard has rejoined Radio Victory for a series of Saturday morning shows.