After 27 years with the BBC and other lesser broadcasters, Jeremy Nicholas now works with companies and individuals to help them communicate more effectively.Jeremy runs Talking Toolbox Ltd in west London, teaching businesses how to engage their audiences using techniques from TV, radio and comedy. He works with international speakers to add humour to their talks.
He’s a motivational speaker to energise your team. He’s a keynote speaker on communicating with impact and his show about the mistakes business speakers make, ‘What Are You Talking About?’ ran for 23 shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019.
Jeremy cut his teeth as a broadcaster on student radio before doing a postgrad in radio journalism and then working as a news and sports reporter. He joined the BBC in 1987, going on to work as reporter and presenter on TV and radio, both locally, nationally and internationally on the BBC World Service.
He won a Sony Radio award for his breakfast show on BBC Greater London Radio as well as a New York Academy Award for his live commentary at the Hillsborough Disaster.
Jeremy always likes to add personality into his broadcasts and is well known for the quirky style of his news features. He’s shared his ideas on creative storytelling with other reporters in special sessions for the BBC Academy of Journalism.
He’s a highly regarded chat show host having interviewed the great and good from politicians and entertainers to adventurers and academics. He’s coaxed stories out of sports personalities, even when they’ve had very little personality to work with.
On television he’s reported on the face of Elvis appearing in the blue veins of a Stilton cheese, the Moscow State Circus husband and wife crossbow act who were getting divorced but still had eighteen months left on their contract and Speedy the tortoise having an artificial leg fitted. Tragically pigeonholed as an end-of-bulletin man, he never gets the lead story.
He devised the TV sports quiz ‘Sick as a Parrot’ which he presented on Channel 5 and also on BBC Radio 5 Live. He’s hosted five series of ‘You Cannot Be Serious’ on BBC Radio and appeared on TV shows such as ‘Noel’s Telly Years’ and ‘Call My Bluff’.
He’s a recipient of the highest award in UK speaking, the PSAE – Professional Speaking Award of Excellence, only the fifteenth person in history to receive it. He’s a past president of the Professional Speaking Association, London.
Jeremy loves chocolate so much he co-owned a chocolate making business. Bianca Marton Chocolates, an award-winning artisan manufacturer in Brentford. Jeremy mainly tested the chocolate, especially the sea-salted caramels.
In 2018 his one man show ‘After Dinner Stories From My Disastrous Broadcasting Career’ was a success at the Edinburgh Fringe, enjoying a month long run at the Gilded Balloon.
Jeremy is the voice of the announcer on 11 global best-selling football video games, FIFA 06 to FIFA 16. If your children have this game, you will know this man’s voice, perhaps a little too well. In real life he served sixteen years as the stadium announcer at West Ham United FC, announcing West Ham’s goals very loudly and the opposition’s very quietly.
Naseba Dubai
Aetna
Zain Kuwait
Genuine Solutions
Focus Group
West Ham United FC
Loughborough College
Trentbarton
Sanderson
Cambridge IECC
Grassroots Football
Trent College
Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers
Ellen MacArthur book tour
Northamber
Institute of Sales and Marketing Management
Jhoost
Nottinghamshire CCC
Stihl Group
Kingswood
Executive Association
PIMS
Nesta
MindLink
Academy for Chief Executives
Milton
Farnham
Langham Hotel
Football League
Best Business Events
Cognizant
Brody
NIIT
Rugby Football League
Audible
HP
Property Investment Network
Good Funeral Awards
Ideal Death Show
JLA
Merryck
MICA
ABLE
Hounslow Council
Pro Mobile
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Richmond Council
Excedia
Wandsworth Council
Still Logistics
AVN
Association of Serviced Apartment Providers
KSS AHSN
All Wales Medicines Strategy Group
WGSN
University of Nottingham
St Cedd’s
Career Farm
Petrol Retailers Association
Diverse Academies Learning Partnership
Emlyon Business School
Leeds University Business School
Hull University Business School
ACE Newspaper and Magazine Awards
UK Business Awards
UK Employee Experience Awards
Customer Experience World
UK Customer Experience Awards
UK Financial Services Experience Awards
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Jeremy is an award-winning TV and radio broadcaster, well known for his quirky news and sports features for BBC TV and radio.
He is much in demand as a keynote speaker on communication. He shares the skills he learnt from…