Simon Marnie

{{Short description|Australian radio presenter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{BLP primary sources|date=August 2012}} '''Simon Marnie''' is an Australian radio and television presenter.

== Career ==

=== Radio === Marnie was a student of the inaugural radio course at the [[Australian Film, Television and Radio School]].

Prior to joining [[702 ABC Sydney|ABC Radio Sydney]], he worked at [[Triple J]] starting in work experience before moving to a full time position.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Simon Marnie|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=3 March 2008|url=http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s1857170.htm|access-date=27 June 2016|archive-date=5 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605154441/http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s1857170.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Simon previously hosted [[ABC Radio Sydney]]'s weekend morning program across [[New South Wales]].<ref>{{Cite press release |date=2024-11-30 |title=ABC farewells Simon Marnie |url=https://www.abc.net.au/about/media-centre/press-releases/abc-farewells-simon-marnie/104668270 |url-status=live |archive-date=1 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201053917/https://www.abc.net.au/about/media-centre/press-releases/abc-farewells-simon-marnie/104668270 |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=About the ABC |language=en-AU}}</ref> The program was broadcast throughout Sydney on Saturdays from 6 am–12 pm and New South Wales from 10 am, and on Sundays from 10 am–12 pm in Sydney.

=== Television === Simon conceived and produced SBS TV's music show, ''nomad'', produced on [[WOW (TV station)|WOW TV]] and reported on ABC TV's ''TVTV''.

Marnie is one of the hosts, along with [[Jane Hall (actress)|Jane Hall]], Bryce Holdaway, [[Del Irani]] and Dean Ipaviz as they guide families, couples or individuals through the trials and tribulations of their life-changing decision to escape the city, on the ABC program ''Escape from the City''.

== Personal life == Marnie resides in the Sydney suburb of [[Maroubra, New South Wales|Maroubra]] with partner [[Amanda Brown (musician)|Amanda Brown]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Orchestrated acrobatics |url=http://www.pressreader.com/australia/wentworth-courier/20150805/281917361794029/TextView |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013072755/http://www.pressreader.com/australia/wentworth-courier/20150805/281917361794029 |newspaper=[[Wentworth Courier]] |date=5 August 2015 }}</ref>

==See also== *[[ABC Local Radio]] *[[ABC Radio Sydney]]

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