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Nigel Ogden
Nigel Ogden
	Nigel Ogden (left) with his fellow Organist Encores Team members Damon Cox and John Leeming
Background information
Born	1954 (age 69–70); Manchester, England
Occupations	Musician; Radio presenter;
Instruments	Theatre organ; Church organ;

Nigel Ogden (born 1954) is an English theatre organist, known for presenting and performing on the BBC Radio 2 programme The Organist Entertains between 1980 and the end of the show's run in 2018.

Ogden was born in Manchester, England,^[1] the son of a church organist, and had several years of piano lessons, before taking up the organ at the age of twelve.^[2] As a child, his family took him to Blackpool Tower Ballroom to hear performances on the Wurlitzer organ there, by Reginald Dixon.^[2]

He studied to be a teacher, then worked as a sales demonstrator for an organ retail business in Hyde, Cheshire, where he later started his own business selling organs.^[2] From 1972, he started appearing on The Organist Entertains, eventually taking over from Robin Richmond as presenter in March 1980.^[2]

Ogden is also a composer^[1] and a touring musician, playing both theatre and church organs,^[2] and was the organist for the Channel 4 production of Dennis Potter's Lipstick on Your Collar.^[3]