Ridings FM Ridings FM Ridings FM is the Independent Local Radio station serving the Wakefield District of West Yorkshire since 3 October 1999. It is owned and operated by the Lincs FM Group. The station was originally based at Thornes Office Park in Wakefield before co-locating with sister station Dearne FM at Zenith Park on Whaley Road, Barugh Green, in the north-west of Barnsley in 2009. Following a memorandum sent to Ofcom, which stated that the station has never made a profit although being a technical success, Ridings FM was moved to Doncaster where it shares a building with Trax FM, Dearne
Richard Ridings as Silas in "". Ridings voices Daddy Pig in the animated children's series "Peppa Pig", Father Christmas and Boss Dwarf in "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom", and Grooby in Q Pootle 5. In 2005, he took the lead role in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom "Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore", playing a sexually obsessed overweight ghost alongside Steve Furst and Amanda Abbington. The second series was transmitted in May, 2007. Ridings has also provided voiceovers in video games, including the voice of Sarge in "Quake III", the Mentor in "Dungeon Keeper" and "Dungeon Keeper 2", Mendechaus in War for the