Bryan Crump
{{short description|New Zealand broadcaster}}
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Bryan Crump (born 1966) is a New Zealand radio broadcaster and choir director. He is the presenter of a long running radio programme on Radio New Zealand{{snd}}Nights{{snd}}and the director of a community choir, the Doubtful Sounds.
Early life
Crump was born in 1966 in Thames, New Zealand.{{cite web| url= https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/presenters/bryan-crump| title= Bryan Crump| publisher=RNZ | access-date= 15 July 2021| archive-date= 12 July 2021| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210712185628/https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/presenters/bryan-crump| url-status= live}} He is the fourth child in the family. His father Harry was a postmaster and a singer.{{cite journal| url= https://www.magzter.com/stories/Womens-Interest/New-Zealand-Womans-Weekly/Meet-The-Man-Behind-The-Nights-Microphone| journal= New Zealand Woman's Weekly| title= Meet the man behind the nights microphone| first= Julie| last= Jacobson| date= 30 March 2020| pages= 26–27| access-date= 15 July 2021| archive-date= 15 July 2021| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210715033811/https://www.magzter.com/stories/Womens-Interest/New-Zealand-Womans-Weekly/Meet-The-Man-Behind-The-Nights-Microphone| url-status= live}} As a young person, Crump became interested in sound recording, and began producing radio plays and programmes with friends. In his early 20s, Crump worked for the Department of Conservation for three summers as a nature guide.{{cite news| title=Bryan Crump| work=Dominion Post| date=8 June 2013|page=supplement,14}} He also completed a six month course in journalism, studying in Auckland.
Career
Crump's early work experience in radio includes stints with Radio Active, and Access Radio.
During a period of overseas experience in London, Crump worked for trade magazines. He decided then that he wanted to work for Radio New Zealand, and began sending postcards to Sharon Crosbie, who was the chief executive at the time. In 1993, Crump gained his first position with Radio New Zealand, as a rural reporter based in Dunedin. After moving to another position with Radio New Zealand in Wellington, he produced and presented a rural programme on Saturdays, from 1995 to 1999. He then left for overseas again, and was hired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a rural reporter in the Northern Territory town of Katherine. This was followed by another position with the ABC in Darwin, hosting a breakfast programme. In 2004, Crump returned to New Zealand, to help his brothers care for their father.
Crump then became the host of Summer Nights with Radio New Zealand, and the programme was renamed as simply Nights in August 2005.
In 2022, Crump finished his long-running Nights with Bryan Crump programme, to become an afternoon presenter on RNZ Concert, commencing this new role in October.{{Cite news |date=4 August 2022 |title=Radio host Bryan Crump joins RNZ Concert |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/audio/2018851949/new-rnz-concert-presenter-announced |access-date=26 August 2022|work=RNZ |language=en-nz}}
Awards and honours
Crump won the 2020 Bill Toft Awards with an entry of segment from his Nights programme recorded in March 2020, on the night before New Zealand went into lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web|date=March 2020|title=2020 Bill Toft Awards Winner|url=https://www.billtoftawards.org/news/2020-winner.html|url-status=live|access-date=15 July 2021|website=Bill Toft Awards|archive-date=15 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715034853/https://www.billtoftawards.org/news/2020-winner.html}} The Bill Toft Awards are open to New Zealand broadcasters working in online and broadcasting media. The judges for this award said about his entry:{{cite news| url=https://livenews.co.nz/2020/12/01/awards-bryan-crump-winner-of-bill-toft-award-2020/| title=Awards – Bryan Crump winner of Bill Toft Award 2020| date=1 December 2020| publisher=LiveNews| access-date=15 July 2021| archive-date=15 July 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715033808/https://livenews.co.nz/2020/12/01/awards-bryan-crump-winner-of-bill-toft-award-2020/| url-status=live}}{{blockquote|Bryan's work delivered a sense of belonging and community, a calming connection at a time of fear and uncertainty. Bryan’s intelligent way of interviewing and relating with his audience is a pleasure to listen to, and he is a worthy winner of the Bill Toft Award.}}
Doubtful Sounds choir
Crump formed the Doubtful Sounds choir in 2009, initially with friends and colleagues from Radio New Zealand. The choir is based in Wellington and mainly sings a cappella arrangements of popular songs.{{cite news| url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/summer-days/audio/2018678815/the-doubtful-sounds-in-session| title=The Doubtful Sounds in session| work=RNZ | date=18 January 2019| access-date=11 July 2021| archive-date=11 July 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711001559/https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/summer-days/audio/2018678815/the-doubtful-sounds-in-session| url-status=live}} It has a current membership of around 20 singers.{{cite news| url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/125685943/the-secret-life-of-rnz-nights-presenter-bryan-crump| title=The secret life of RNZ Nights presenter Bryan Crump| first=Andre| last=Chumko| work=Stuff| date=10 July 2021| access-date=16 July 2021| archive-date=20 July 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720133112/https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/125685943/the-secret-life-of-rnz-nights-presenter-bryan-crump| url-status=live}} Crump arranges much of the music for the choir.{{cite news|url=https://issuu.com/the.star/docs/212235kn|title=A new twist on your old faves|work=Kapiti News|date=22 August 2012|page=22|access-date=11 July 2021|archive-date=15 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715211431/https://issuu.com/the.star/docs/212235kn|url-status=live}}
Personal life
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Category:New Zealand radio presenters