Editing Jon Culshaw (section)

==Early life and career==
Culshaw was born on 2 June 1968 in [[Ormskirk]], [[Lancashire]],{{CN|date=August 2024}} and educated at [[St Bede's Catholic High School, Ormskirk|St Bede's Catholic High School]]<ref>[http://www.stbedes-ormskirk.lancs.sch.uk/index.php St Bede's]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215195957/http://www.stbedes-ormskirk.lancs.sch.uk/index.php |date=15 December 2006 }}</ref> and [[St John Rigby College, Wigan|St John Rigby College]], [[Wigan]].

Culshaw's radio career began in [[hospital radio]] in Ormskirk. His first job was at [[97.4 Rock FM|Red Rose Radio]] (now Rock FM) in [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]] in 1987, where, even then, he used to occasionally read the weather in the voice of [[Frank Bruno]]. He did voice-over work, then was catapulted to prominence with ''[[Spitting Image]]'', where he voiced around forty characters, including [[John Major]] in the 1990s, who was then the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]].

For around four years in the late 1980s, Culshaw was a DJ on commercial radio station [[Viking FM]],<ref>[http://www.tellytunes.com/photocards_vikingfm.asp Tellytunes: DJ photocards: Viking FM DJ photographs]<!-- Bot generated title -->  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215195957/http://www.tellytunes.com/photocards_vikingfm.asp |date=15 December 2006 }}</ref> based in [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], and also had a breakfast show on [[Pennine Radio (radio station)|Pennine Radio]] (now the [[Pulse 1|Pulse of West Yorkshire]]) and [[Radio Wave]] in [[Blackpool]]. It was a receptionist at Viking FM who persuaded Culshaw that he should go onstage with his impressions and make it his living. Culshaw later appeared on [[BBC Radio 2]]'s ''[[It's Been a Bad Week]]'', appeared as a guest on the [[BBC Two]] ''Star Trek Night'' quiz in August 1996, and was also a regular guest on the [[Chris Moyles]] afternoon show on [[BBC Radio 1]] from 1998 to 2002, where he would phone up commercial organisations such as a [[Kwik-Fit]] garage in the voice of [[Patrick Moore]] or [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] politely requesting whether they could service his [[X-wing]] fighter and how much time it would take.