This is Chris Evans. You may know of him. You may not know of him. His profession is known as a radio disc jockey. That can also be referred to as a radio broadcaster, or a presenter for the audio medium known as radio.
I was interested in radio when I was a younger lad, but I wasn’t that interested. I recall enjoying Pick of the Pops presented by Alan ‘Fluff’ Freeman it was a good place to hear some old tracks, and I was more interested in the older tracks than what passed for pop at the time. I wasn’t a big radio fan, I was just about interested in what was going on.
And then came Chris Evans …
Radio appeared bland, especially in terms of presenters, I didn’t hear anyone that sounded fresh, exciting, innovative … hey even interesting. Radio just appeared to be music interrupted now and then by some cheesy talker talking whatever.
And then came Chris Evans …
I was interested in performing stuff, especially drama and was just discovering my voice and connecting it with some of the creative elements that were just emerging, but I was a bit unsure as to how to best express this. I wasn’t going to be an actor, probably not a screenwriter, so what could I do. I was a bit uncertain.
And then came Chris Evans …
As it turned out Evans was a bit of a flash in the pan, really. His star shone brightly for a few years through Big Breakfast, his radio one show and then some other smaller stuff. He’s back on radio now on radio two only taking on the biggest challenge of taking over from the enormously popular Terry Wogan. I’m certain he’ll work out to be a success.
Yet in his time, he did enough to spark in me an interest in communication that no other influence was able to spark in me. An influence that got me to do radio at university. An influence that got me much into the media as a force that would get me interested in expressing what I want in as creative a fashion as possible. The world was my oyster and it was opened to me because of Chris Evans. I’m looking forward to sharing with you the review of his biography that I’ve finished recently.
He is the hero that I’ve been referring to in this post about Timmy Mallett. He was the man that also launched the Quality of a Man series (including the initial blog, on consistency, on creativity, on responsibility and on maturity) on the basis of some of the things I learnt whilst reading his autobiography. The book review will be up in the other place soon. I am in no way idolising the guy. As I intimated before he was the trigger, the inspiration, the pivotal figure put in me life to wake me up to opportunities that lay dormant for so long. That’s what makes him my hero … but only for a season.
Now I’m here and making sense of life and realising that the Author of my faith has it mind to point me to the real hero of the piece who has all those qualities of the man. I’m glad for good role models and signpost figures like Chris Evans and others, but the goal for me as I hunger and thirst for that which is right is to be just like the real hero – Jesus.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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