In 1997, he won a Sony Academy Award for "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", a radio documentary about gay music, produced by Benjamin Mepsted. He currently presents his own show on 6 Music on Saturdays between 9pm and midnight, and on Sundays between 6pm and 8pm as "Now Playing @6Music", a show that plays songs based on a certain theme and listeners' input. He also has a show broadcast at 2am on Monday mornings, which is focused on music by local bands from "BBC Introducing". In 1994 he wrote and presented "Surviving Suicide", about his suicide attempt.