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Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has been nominated for radio broadcaster of the year in this year's annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

Cocker, who presents shows on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 and 6 Music, is up against Radio 4 news presenter Martha Kearney and former newsreader Charlotte Green.

Green, famous for her occasional giggles, was nominated in recognition of her 25-year career at Radio 4.

The awards are voted for by a panel of media journalists.

Previous recipients of the broadcaster of the year award include Sir Terry Wogan, Jonathan Ross and Kirsty Young.

Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s through his band, whose hits included Common People and Disco 2000. He began presenting his Sunday Service show on 6 Music in January 2010.

He won the rising star prize at the Sony Radio Academy Awards later that year.

His Radio 4 show, Wireless Nights, sees him take listeners "on a nocturnal journey around stories of night people".

Others in the running for an guild award in March include ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3's World and Music, a sequence of classical music interspersed with both popular and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors.

The judges described it as an "overlooked jewel" in the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's crown.

Radio 4's comedy series Cabin Pressure, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam, has been nominated for best radio programme along with James Joyce's Ulysses, a Radio 4 dramatisation to mark Bloomsday, the day in June when the book's events take place.

They will compete against Soul Music, another Radio 4 series, about music that has a strong emotional impact.

The winners will be announced at an awards lunch in London on 14 March.