Mr Mark Hurrell DL - Current High Sheriff

Now retired from full time work in the media, Mark joined the BBC in 1978 and, apart from a short time in commercial radio in the early 1980s, worked for the Corporation continuously in a wide variety of roles; these included presentation and production in both TV and radio before he turned his hand to management and leadership. He came to Gloucestershire in 1990 for a senior role at BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

Following a four year spell at Points West TV in Bristol, he was appointed as Editor of BBC Radio Stoke in 1998. He returned in 2002 to run Radio Gloucestershire where he was actively involved in many of the station’s major stories, including the extensive coverage of the 2007 floods. In 2013 he worked in London for a year managing a BBC-wide initiative, ‘World War One at Home’ and fulfilled a similar role in 2016, this time with local radio/TV coverage of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.

He and his family have lived in the city for over 34 years and he’s become involved in the local community in a variety of ways; he is a season ticket holder at Kingsholm and sings with several local choirs. A founder member of the Honourable Company of Gloucestershire, where he chairs the Arts & Heritage committee, Mark is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Gloucestershire and in 2017 was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant. He has been involved with a variety of local charities including The Cranfield Trust, The Friends of the Cotswolds, and now sits on the Cathedral’s Development Board.