BBC News presenter Ros Atkins puts together epic drum n’ bass mix for Radio 6 Music
nme.comBBC World News presenter has submitted a drum n’ bass mix to Radio 6 Music, for the station’s Desert Island Disco day after it was revealed that he used to be a DJ.Ros Atkins, who’s been dubbed the BBC’s “Explainer-in-chief” thanks to his viral current affairs explainer videos, formerly put on his own nights in Brixton, London and DJ’d in as far flung places including South Africa before his career in broadcast journalism.After reading a recent interview with Atkins by The Guardian, BBC Radio 6 Music producers got in touch with him to see if he’d like to do a drum n’ bass mix for their upcoming all-day Desert Island Disco day, which aired yesterday (January 17).Atkins put together a playlist including ’90s tunes by DJ Hype & Ganja Max and Shimon and Andy C.“To the 19-year-old who avidly collected all the latest mix cassettes and recorded tracks off @BBCR1, the idea I’d do a mix on the BBC would have been incomprehensible.
I’m very touched to have been asked,” Atkins wrote on Twitter.“So here you go. My Desert Island Disco mix for @BBC6Music. Starting off back in the 90s and working my way through to right now.
I hope you enjoy it – I’ve been totally taken aback by the reaction. I’m not so secretly hoping they might have me back.”2/11 I also started to DJ.
Inspired by @therealLTJbukem @DJHYPE_PLAYAZ @KennyDJKen @RAYKEITH1 and others I started to buy a lot of D&B and, through my 20s, in a very amateur fashion, I DJed a range of music in London, Cornwall & Cambridge.
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