DJ quits BBC to teach in Yorkshire

26/07/2010

BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs will switch off her microphone for the last time later this year to take up a teaching role at a Yorkshire university.
The DJ is leaving her role at the station after 14 years of championing new dance music to teach at the University of Sheffield.
Hobbs, 46, will teach at the Yorkshire university's Union of Students radio station, TV station and newspaper.
Hobbs said: "The great freedom the BBC has given me as a broadcaster has allowed me to help break so many confrontational artists as diverse as Slipknot and Skream, and of course, the whole genre of dubstep in recent times. My current Experimental show is in peak condition, it's never been stronger and although it's a very emotional decision to leave the show that I love so much, it's also an optimum moment to bow out at the very top of my game."
The last of Hobbs's weekly shows will be broadcast on Thursday September 9 from 2am to 4am. BBC Radio 1 will announce plans for the slot in the coming weeks. The station said the new programme will follow the tradition of providing "distinctive specialist music content".
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