Wayne Clarke (broadcaster)
Wayne Clarke (born 10 July 1961) is an award-winning radio presenter and producer.
Wayne Clarke is the current holder of the Andrew Cross Award as "Religious Broadcaster of the Year (local and regional)", one of the premier awards for the religious media in the United Kingdom. Wayne Clarke is also an ordained Baptist minister. Wayne Clarke is currently minister at New North Road Baptist Church, Huddersfield, and was minister at Dovedale Baptist Church, Liverpool from 1994 to 2012. He is due to move to Manchester in early 2018, to become Minister of Trinity Baptist Church, Gorton.
Wayne Clarke was born in Rugby, Warwickshire and attended Lawrence Sheriff School, Keele University and Regent's Park College, Oxford.
From March 2001 to March 2012 Wayne Clarke produced and presented "Daybreak", the religious affairs programme on BBC Radio Merseyside. On 1 January 2008 Wayne Clarke was listed by the Liverpool Echo as one of the 366 "Scouserati", the most influential people in Merseyside.
Wayne Clarke is no relation to Wayne Clarke the footballer and former Everton centre forward, although both were born in 1961 and both made their reputation in the city of Liverpool.