Nita Jhummu

Nita is a much loved and respected part of our team at Chelmsford Community Radio. We are incredibly proud of her great work in supporting the Chelmsford Community – giving a platform to hundreds of guests over the years.

She says of her original journey into the world of radio ”I’ve always been a 50% numeric person and 50% creative person and when I started working in financial services I was looking to do something outside of work which used my creativity. I always listened to radio since I was born and thought I’d give it a go. Radio had helped cheer me up when life had been tough such as times of being quite ill or when feeling lonely so I knew what a powerful medium it was and thought I could connect with people.”

Nita spent a few years learning the ropes on Hospital radio and then joined us soon after she won presenter of the year at the Hospital Radio Awards in 2017 seeing it as a positive move forwards. In 2019, Nita made it to the finals of the BBC Essex New Voices contest. She has also made the finals of the Community Radio awards 4 times, including as part of our 2019 Election Coverage.  She lists her main influences in Radio as Chris Moyles from his Radio 1 days for “Being a Genius” but also LBC presenters James O’Brien, Nick Abbot and Sheila Fogerty – for their use of language. In addition to that, James O’Brien for his fairness, Nick Abbot is clever and very quick witted and “I really respect Sheila Fogerty as I think it’s more difficult for female presenters than males even in this day and age, she has a great tone of voice and being a woman, I think the callers argue with her more than the male presenters but she handles it so well.”

Nitas passion for radio and experience in listening to some very strong role models helped her form the idea behind City Talk. She explains “I’d done years of music shows and wanted to challenge myself. It’s much harder to do a speech based show than a music one and also the type of show I do where you have to switch from one topic to the next in a short space of time! I also thought there was a need for a talk show which focused on Chelmsford and its people only. I think we are one of very few stations (or the only station) that has a speech show which covers Chelmsford issues, talks to Chelmsford Councillors, Chelmsford charities, Chelmsford celebrities, Chelmsford actors, and Chelmsford authors etc… all in one show. Lots of shows focus on one area but this show does it all.”

The topics and guests vary each week. Of the countless guests that have been part of City Talk over the years, Nita cites some of her favourites as Mike Nolan (because she’s a massive Eurovision fan) also Broadcast Journalist and Author Nick Wallis who was talking about his then visit to Chelmsford for a talk on the Post Office Scandal. Nita is always happy to welcome new guests on her show so if you would like to be part of her conversation then do get in touch via studio@chelmsfordcommunityradio.com  or just listen…. Tune in every Monday from 8pm.