Background
Dennis grew up in West Yorkshire where he attended Ilkley Grammar School.
Dennis grew up in West Yorkshire where he attended Ilkley Grammar School.
He began working in radio with an unpaid Saturday job at British Broadcasting Corporation Radio New York In 1989, he began his professional career working for telephone publishing company Independent Media Services Limited (IP Multimedia Subsystem), in Leeds, working as a football reporter on its TEAMtalk service and as cricket editor, managing an outside broadcast team that included Clive Lloyd, Alan Knott and Ralph Dellor. He returned to the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1995 to work for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Cleveland, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Leeds and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Newcastle.
In 1998, he began commentating on Leeds United games for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Leeds alongside Norman Hunter.
In 2002 he left Radio Leeds to work as a football commentator for Radio 5 Live, for which he has covered four major international tournaments.
