Wayne Clarke (broadcaster)

Wayne Clarke is a radio presenter, producer and author. He is the current holder of the Andrew Cross Award as "Religious Broadcaster of the Year (local and regional)". Clarke is also an ordained Baptist minister. He was minister at New North Road Baptist Church, Huddersfield from 2012 to 2018. He was minister at Dovedale Baptist Church, Liverpool from 1994 to 2012. He moved to Manchester in early 2018 to become Minister of Trinity Baptist Church, Gorton.

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 Clarke was listed by the Liverpool Echo as one of the 366 "Scouserati", the most influential people in Merseyside.

He is the author of A Ready Man, a biography of Hugh Stowell Brown, published by Instant Apostle in 2019.