Mark Marston

(Mark) Greg Marston (born 28 December 1956) is an international voice-over artist who became well known within the radio industry in Great Britain in the early to mid 90’s as the first main station-branding voice for the GWR Group of stations, later to include national broadcaster Classic FM and LBC in London.

When Classic FM changed its format in the late 90s, Marston was its first and primary station-branding voice under the new regime and format. In 1999 at the annual Sony Radio Academy Awards in London, Classic FM took “Gold” for Station Branding and again, in 2000, “Gold” for Station Sound.
Biography
Marston was born in Bristol, England and immigrated to Australia at the age of 13. Leaving school, after a stint with the State Government, he began his broadcasting career working as a presenter on various commercial radio stations throughout Western Australia - University Station 6UVS FM Perth, 747-6SE Esperance, 6MD Merredin, GWN Bunbury, 6IX Perth, 6KY Perth - before arriving at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC 720 6WF Perth) in the late 90’s and taking up the position of Music Director for 2 years.

During that time, as part of a programme called “The NightShift”, he interviewed many musicians, actors and other celebrities, broadcasting the resultant chats on “Interview” once a week.

Marston also took part, initially as a guest judge, in “Theatresports” at the Fly-By-Night club in Fremantle, Western Australia, and later became a player and active participant in the improvisational comedy/drama played out seasonally on Sunday evenings.

This led to the formation of a 5 piece comedy troupe - “Cabaret Suaving-On” - which featured skits, parodied songs and improvisational sketches, often performed for the first (and last) time at any given performance.

He was involved in the introduction and launch of the ABC’s national youth radio broadcaster, Triple J, to Perth audiences in 1991.

In 1992, Marston returned to the UK to take up a contract with Bristol based radio station “Classic Gold”, which led directly to his association with the then GWR Group across the UK and a career as an independent professional voice-over artist.

He currently lives just outside of Perth, Western Australia, having re-located in 2006, and works from bespoke studios as an international voice-over to all parts of the world using broadband and ISDN technology.

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