Welcome to Why Not Me, The World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mantour.

Broadcasting from Music City, USA.

Nashville, Tennessee.

Join us as our guests tell us their stories.

Some will make your laugh, some will make you cry. Real life people who

will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.

Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance,

and a better understanding for autism around the world.

Hi, I'm Tony Matur. Welcome to Why Not Me the World. Today's guest is Howard Priestley. He's

music director of Phoenix Radio located in Northern England.

Welcome, Howard.

It's a pleasure.

Well, it's a pleasure to have you, and I really appreciate you coming on today.

If you would, tell our listeners a little bit about Phoenix Radio, where you're located, and what it is that you do there.

Sure, yeah. Well, we're based in the north of England, so Halifax is midway between Leeds and Manchester, which are probably two more well-known cities.

Although Halifax is quite a well-known small town which has got a history of creating things

on a worldwide scale historically.

We or I run Phoenix as a community radio station.

Well, radio is a great thing to do. I understand that that's not all you do. You have other

things that you enjoy as well. My background is art and it's also kind of teaching in further education and the work I was doing mostly was with

people with learning disabilities and part of what also did was our qualified youth work and I was determined to try and make the youth service more inclusive.

So part of my artwork is cartoons and things, so I try to create things that were of interest to young people generally to try and put messages across about working together. And that's kind of continued with the teaching that I did and

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