Mick Ord is a media trainer and consultant who’s worked – amongst other things – as a jacuzzi deck-builder in California, a tobacco-picker in Ontario and a school caretaker in Liverpool.

He  joined the BBC in the 80’s and climbed the greasy pole starting off as a reporter eventually becoming BBC Radio Merseyside’s longest-serving manager (17 years), leaving in 2012.

Musically, he was thrown out of the school choir aged 10 for being “tone-deaf” (thanks, Fr.Brady) and aged 12 learned  to play the recorder (well,’Au Clair de la Lune’). 

His musical tastes range from Captain Beefheart to late period Scott Walker, The Fall, Joni Mitchell, The Chieftains, Cecilia Bartoli, Maria Callas and loads of other singers and musicians (including Ian Prowse, obviously) too numerous, obscure or obvious to mention.

Nowadays he runs a media consultancy mickord.com specialising in media and crisis communications training.

A frustrated musician, writer, radio presenter and Everton fan he is not bitter or twisted about anything at all, honest.