Martyn Lee (born July 22, 1978) is a British national radio broadcaster, Sony award-winning radio producer, Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Master Practitioner and Hypnotist. He is a presenter on Absolute 80s.
He has been Programme Director for radio stations on the south coast of England including 2CR FM, Original 106 and The Coast 106. Lee also works with Bournemouth University with their media and radio courses.
He grew up in Norfolk and Suffolk where his career started at LTR FM, which is now known as The Beach. He worked at Radio Broadland from 1994 to 1996 as the weekend sports producer.
In October 1996 he joined 2CR FM working on the breakfast show for the presenter 'Lloydie'. He went from being a producer to presenter on Boxing Day 1997 and subsequently went on to host the evening show, breakfast show and drivetime show. Whilst as 2CR FM he was also Head of Music and Assistant Programme Controller. He left in June 2006 having spent 10 years there presenting many shows including the Breakfast Show, Drivetime, Daytimes and 'The Hot 30 Countdown'
Whilst at 2CR FM in Bournemouth, Martyn was part of the music scheduling team for the parent companies, GWR and GCap Media responsible for choosing the playlists of over 30 radio stations.
He joined Original 106 in July 2006 as Assistant Programme Director and host of the Saturday Breakfast show. For much of 2007 he was the host of the weekday afternoon show. In early 2008, with the arrival of Richard Skinner, he no longer presented a weekday programme and became Programme Director, whilst retaining his own show on Saturday evenings 6pm-midnight.
When Original 106 was bought by Celador in August 2008, Martyn was employed as Programme Director to launch The Coast 106, which went on air on October 30, 2008 with a line-up that included Matt Hopper, Iain Meadows and John Clayton.