Adrian Goldberg
{{Short description|English journalist}}
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Adrian Goldberg (born in Harborne, Birmingham) is an English journalist, radio and television presenter. He currently hosts the Byline Times Podcast and The Liquidator Podcast, a West Bromwich Albion fan podcast. {{cite web|title=About|url=https://bylinetimes.com/about/|access-date=8 February 2021|website=Byline Times|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|title=BYLINE TIMES PODCAST|url=https://shows.acast.com/byline-times-podcast/|access-date=2021-02-08|website=shows.acast.com}}
Family background
Adrian is the son of Rudolph Goldberg, a German immigrant who fled from the Nazi regime as a 13-year-old child with his 11-year-old brother Werner, thanks to one of the last Kindertransport arranged by Sir Nicholas Winton. Rudolph Goldberg's parents and other relatives were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} during the Holocaust, to whom he later erected a memorial in the Jewish section at Witton Cemetery. After serving in the British Army in the latter part of World War II, in 1950 Rudolph Goldberg married Kitty and had four children: John, Marion, Judith and Adrian. The family latterly settled in Northfield, Birmingham, where Rudolph died in 2012 aged 87.{{cite web|url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/tv/radio-presenter-adrian-goldberg-pays-351472|title=Radio presenter Adrian Goldberg pays tribute to dad who fled Nazis – Birmingham Mail|author=Neil Elkes|date=3 December 2012|work=birminghammail}}
Career
Goldberg was a presenter of the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio WM. He also presented The Politics Show on BBC TV for the Midlands region, and was a reporter on the BBC TV consumer programme Watchdog. Goldberg continues to write a regular column for the Birmingham Mail.{{cite web|title=Adrian Goldberg|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2006/03/13/adrian_goldberg_feature.shtml|publisher=BBC|accessdate=12 February 2012}}
In 2006, Goldberg resigned from BBC Radio WM, in order to launch The Stirrer, a news and campaigning website for Birmingham and the Black Country, declaring himself to be "on a mission".[http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/media-marketing-news/tm_objectid=17216001&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=adrian-s-vision-of-a-digital-future-name_page.html Adrian's vision of a digital future] Birmingham Post, 12 June 2006 He also formed production company Kick in the Grass, which produced a documentary about disquiet in the world of football – Manchester DisUnited.{{cite web
|url=http://www.macarts.co.uk/?page=event.html&id=1856
|title=Manchester Disunited and Other Football Feuds
|publisher=(Midlands Arts Centre)
|accessdate=5 August 2007}} In July 2007, Goldberg was listed at number 41 in the Birmingham Post's annual Power 50 of the people they consider the most powerful and influential in the West Midlands.{{cite news
|date=17 July 2007
|url=http://www.birminghampost.net/2007/07/17/no-41-adrian-goldberg-50002-19469396/
|title=No.41 Adrian Goldberg
|work=Birmingham Post
|accessdate=16 October 2008
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328130306/http://www.birminghampost.net/2007/07/17/no-41-adrian-goldberg-50002-19469396/
|archive-date=28 March 2012
|url-status=dead
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In August 2008, Goldberg joined talkSPORT and presented the overnight 1{{nbsp}}am{{snd}}6{{nbsp}}am slot from Monday to Thursday. After closing down The Stirrer,[http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/?p=2324 Goldberg announces he is to stop editing The Stirrer], The Stirrer 29 August 2010[http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/?p=2384 Goldberg confirms he has stopped editing The Stirrer], The Stirrer 7 September 2010 he left talkSPORT in September 2010 to present 5 Live Investigates, a current affairs programme for Radio 5 Live.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/08_august/10/5live.shtml Radio 5 Live launches new look to Sunday evenings featuring cream of business, politics and current affairs] BBC Press Office 10 August 2010 The programme ran until May 2019, with the final episode covering fire risks in tower blocks.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005fgl Tower Block Fire Risks]
He returned to BBC Radio WM to present a Saturday morning phone-in programme, before taking over Ed Doolan's BBC Radio WM Monday to Thursday lunch-time shows from September 2011. From February 2012, Goldberg's show moved to the 9{{nbsp}}am{{snd}}midday slot.
He left BBC Radio WM again in September 2014, ostensibly to concentrate on making and contributing to network radio and television programming, having suggested he enjoyed his Radio 5 Live Investigates programmes and making a BBC Radio 4 documentary.{{cite web|url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/adrian-goldberg-quit-bbc-wm-7355034|title=Adrian Goldberg: Why I quit BBC WM morning show – Birmingham Mail|author=Graham Young|date=1 July 2014|work=birminghammail}} He also occasionally reported on BBC News.
In December 2014, it was announced he was returning to BBC WM to present the breakfast show again, from the end of February 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/adrian-goldberg-returns-bbc-wm-8315680|title=Adrian Goldberg returns to BBC WM|author=Graham Young|date=19 December 2014|work=birminghammail}} He left BBC WM for the final time to date in February 2017, citing other broadcasting commitments.[https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/-radio-wm-adrian-goldberg-quits-12666122 Birmingham radio host quits and is replaced by former Radio 2 DJ]
As of 2022, Goldberg hosts a show on alternative radio station 'Brum Radio' titled Adventures in Music,[https://brumradio.com/adrian-goldberg/ Adventures in Music with Adrian Goldberg] and a weekly podcast for the Byline Times.[https://bylinetimes.com/podcast/ The Byline Times Podcast with Adrian Goldberg]
Personal life
Goldberg has a degree in English from Birmingham University. He has three daughters, and is a supporter of West Bromwich Albion Football Club.{{cite web
|date=2 March 2003
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/2813203.stm
|title= Politics Show – Meet presenter Adrian Goldberg
|publisher=BBC News
|accessdate=5 August 2007}}