Presenters

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Adam Catterall

Former Gatecrasher resident DJ Adam Catterall began his radio career in 2005 at Lancashire’s Rock FM. After a highly successful 18 months on 2 different time slots Adam was appointed the stations new breakfast presenter – a position which he kept for 3 and a half years. In this time he won several awards including […]

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Adele Roberts

Adele Roberts is the host of Radio 1Xtra’s weekend afternoon show (Weekends, 1-4pm), bringing listeners a fun show full of cheeky banter, wacky stories and listener chat. Adele started her career at 1Xtra in August 2011 as a stand in DJ, having covered for the likes of Sarah-Jane Crawford and CJ Beatz. Adele began her […]

Anneka Rice

Anneka Rice is no radio rookie. She started her media career working for the BBC World Service, working on “The World Today”. At the age of 19 she bought a one-way ticket to Hong Kong where she presented the evening news on TVB Pearl, the English language TV station, as well as producing a weekly […]

Ben Burrel

Ben Burrell

Ben Burrell is a presenter who currently fronts weekday drive on the Free Radio Network in Coventry & Warwickshire. Ben’s love for radio started at Pure FM at the University of Portsmouth, winning the first ever ‘Demo Idol’ at the National Student Radio Conference. After this, Ben stayed on the south coast presenting on The Breeze, […]

Bex Lindsay

Bex is currently a presenter for Fun Kids. She cut her teeth in Northumberland, presenting and producing the breakfast show on Tynedale FM. At the same time, she also worked for Newcastle-based radio station Tyneside Radio. However, in 2011 Bex moved down to the capital and started presenting on Shoreditch Radio, as well as working […]

Chris Warburton

Chris Warburton presents Saturday Edition on 5 live. After qualifying as a journalist, Chris worked as a producer, reporter and presenter for the BBC in Cambridge. Next, he moved into national radio, working for BBC Radio 5 Live as a producer and reporter. And before you ask… No, he’s nothing to do with the bread […]

Clint Boon

Clint Boon is not only a music DJ, he’s a rock star. In 1986, Boon joined Inspiral Carpets and never looked back, performing under various different guises. In 2005, he became Head of Music for Oldham based radio station The Revolution, presenting the 10am to 2pm weekday show. He later joined XFM Manchester, where he […]

Emma Jones

Emma’s flair for radio truly began when she joined Nottingham Trent University’s student radio station Fly FM. Within 6 months she had already been successfully elected as Deputy Station Manager, making her an integral part of the team which guided the station to 5 Gold Student Radio Award wins – their most successful year to […]

Fi Glover

Fi Glover is a multi-award winning broadcaster, writer and voice over artist. She was described in the Guardian as ‘gifted’ and ‘disproportionately likeable’. Fi has won a Sony Gold and a Sony Silver for Saturday Live, and a Sony Silver Award for Broadcasting House (both on Radio 4), as well as a Bronze Award for […]

Glen Scott

Glen Scott is a 22-year-old Multi-Award Winning Radio Broadcaster. Having always loved radio, it wasn’t until he joined his student radio station, Pure FM, that he realised presenting was exactly where he wanted to be. In his second year of University whilst studying for his degree in Television and Broadcasting, Glen picked up the award […]

Jane Garvey

I was born in Liverpool in 1964. Early ambition was to be a bus conductress, but then I discovered radio. My inspirations were Janice Long on Radio Merseyside’s youth show Street Life, and Ray Moore on Radio 2. I went to Birmingham University, did an English degree, and confidently expected the BBC to get in […]

Joel Ross

Joel joined Heart North West in May this year to host the stations breakfast show with Lorna Bancroft. He’s best known for his work with co-host Jason King – thus becoming the multi-Sony Award winning duo JK & Joel. The pair presented shows on Viking Fm, Key 103, BBC Radio One and more. Since their […]

Jordan North

Jordan’s obsession with radio began at college and drew him toward community radio station Preston FM. There he spent his teens honing his craft whilst working part-time on the radio station at Blackpool Pleasure Beach (it was more of tanoy in all honesty). Not content with reuniting ice cream covered children with their sun burnt […]

Ken Bruce

Ken Bruce has been broadcasting on the BBC for some years, although the suggestion that he was the first person to announce the retreat of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army from Derby is untrue… He was educated at, or at least attended, Hutchesons’ Boys’ Grammar School in Glasgow, where his achievements included being named “Laziest Boy […]

Max Rushden

Max has presented shows on 5 Live, BBC London, BBC Cambridgeshire and Talksport. He has also presented The Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast.

Pablo Sat-Bhambra

Born and raised in London Pablo, along with Raj, has become a pioneer of Bollywood in the UK. Loving Bollywood from a young age, and enjoying the escapism and beauty of the on screen stars, they have created a brand that is intrinsically Bollywood. Brought together by a play written by Eastenders star, Nina Wadia, […]

Raj Dhanda

Born and raised in Glasgow Raj, along with Pablo, has become a pioneer of Bollywood in the UK. Loving Bollywood from a young age, and enjoying the escapism and beauty of the on screen stars, they have created a brand that is intrinsically Bollywood. Brought together by a play written by Eastenders star, Nina Wadia, […]

Stuart Maconie

Stuart is the winner of the 2001 Sony Radio Award for Music Broadcaster of the Year and on television he is a stalwart of BBC2’s I Love The 1970s and I Love The 1980s, and of Channel 4’s Top Tens. He also presents BBC Four’s The DVD Collection. As a writer and journalist he has […]

Vicki Blight

Vicki Blight is one of the key presenters across Absolute Radio’s network of stations. She can currently be heard presenting weekend breakfast on Absolute Radio, plus drivetime for Absolute Radio 90s and mid-mornings on Absolute Radio 00s. It was at Cardiff University that Vicki got involved in student radio whilst studying Biochemistry and Medical Molecular […]

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