Russell Trafford-Jones studied physics at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, where he spent a lot of time working at the student radio station as an engineer. There they started broadcasting on AM and on DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting). He worked for NPR in the U.S. for a short time and for a commercial network in the U.K., GWR (now GCap Media), who were early adopters of DAB and helped to push it forward. He then became a broadcast engineer at the BBC at Television Center in London where he now works.