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Richard Andersone is a British radio and television presenter. Richard began within a talent centre learning acting and singing between 1999 - 2003.

From 2000 Andersone began live gigs as a singer/songwriter performing to thousands at venues such as The London Astoria. During this time he released albums under an independent label.

By 2003 he was scouted at a live gig by the managing director of Liberty on SKY 0186 and was drafted into the staff line up.

2007 saw Richard Andersone begin the national Breakfast with Richard Andersone Show on SKY 0186. The shows line up of guests has ranged from Jay Sean to Right Said Fred all the way to Heavy Weight champion Evanda Holyfield.

During 2009 Richard began a venture into polotics serving as a governor within the borough of Harringey. Within the same year he created and introduced 2 successful programmes amongst many called the 'National Battle of the Bands Twenty's' and 'The Vacancy Twenty's'. Both shows speedily became hit reality programmes with the Great British public featuring various stars including the legendary Temptations (singers of My Girl).

By January 2011 Andersone began a voyage by starting the Explosive Media Group www.explosiveemediagroup.co.uk which would house all his creative programming for both local and national television and radio. Weeks into the devleopment of the project the successful nationwide Explosive Unsigned Show was born.

The hit live event and TV show features an array of stars including: Denise Waterman from number one selling group Tight Fit, Jai Amore MOBO Award Winner, Ian Prince GRAMMY Award Winner, Adam Child T4 Presenter and Shipwrecked Star, Angel McKenzie Big Brother Star, A talent scout from the Universal label, the shows Artist Manager Stacy Hall, COOL FM's Connor Phillips, Solar Radio's Roni O'Brian, Kiss and Magic 105.4's Becky Graham, Worlds Apart Lead singer of hit Boyband Aaron Paul and more to be announced.

The TV show airing on SKY 201 and Freesat 403 is presented by national presenter Sumaya Anwar and has devloped rapidly to aquire cult status aiming to help Unsigned acts take a foothold in the music industry.

By August 2011 Andersone took Explosive to the next phase and incorperated the show into a radio show which he called, the Explosive Unsigned Radio Show fronted by national presenter Zoe Cunningham. The show was granted to one of the UK's biggest i-tunes stations pulling in 45'000 listeners, Radio Alternativa available via www.explosiveunsigned.co.uk/radio.

Within the same month Richard decided to take the Explosive Unsigned show further and partnered it with www.tomorrow-news.com and hit magazine Croydon Life and Bromley Life for the rapidly expanding Explosive Magazine content and physical print.

By September 2011 Andersone integrated various community projects as what he described as his way of giving back to the community and acquired a football team which he named EXPLOSIVE currently entering major leagues and partnered with Standard Records and Secret Diamondz entertainment to begin a national campaign named 'Be Productive Not Destructive', an initiative to combat the UK's growing issue of gun and knife crime and launched Explosive's Think Out The [BOX] campaign to encourage young people to aspire further.

Richard Andesone continues to introduce more programming to local and national radio and television.