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Radio presenter Lauren Laverne speaks out for Sunderland

Lauren Laverne, an honorary graduate at the University of Sunderland, is helping showcase the University in a new promotional video. The Sunderland-born broadcaster voices the video, ‘Think Sunderland’, which celebrates the University’s career-focused courses, facilities, inclusive and culture and everything the city has to offer. Lauren, host of the BBC Radio 6 Breakfast Show and Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs...

BBC Radio 1 launches Annie Nightingale Scholarship for emerging DJs

BBC Radio 1 has launched the Annie Nightingale Presents Scholarship, a brand-new initiative designed to champion up-and-coming women and non-binary DJs in the Dance scene. The Scholarship aims to celebrate and elevate talented women and non-binary people in the electronic music scene by providing them with a national platform to showcase their taste and expertise...

BBC Radio 1’s Adele Roberts announces she has bowel cancer

Presenter Adele Roberts has announced via Insta that she missed her BBC Radio 1 breakfast shows this weekend because of an upcoming operation to remove a tumour. Adele revealed she was diagnosed at the start of October and is having surgery on Monday. Her colleagues and friends including Greg James, Scott Mills and Sara Cox replied to the post wishing her well...

BBC wins Broadcaster of the Year at New York Festivals Awards

The BBC has won Broadcaster of the Year at the New York Festivals Radio Awards. Most of the Gold Awards went to the BBC or to independent producers working on BBC programmes. Across its radio networks, the BBC collected 14 Gold awards, 7 Silver and 10 Bronze with podcast series’ including I’m Not A Monster, Where Is George Gibney and Fight Of The Century all picking up several each...

Europe’s Biggest Dance Show returns with BBC Radio 1

Radio 1 will be once again partnering with radio stations from across Europe for a marathon broadcast showcasing the best of each nation’s dance scene. The stations will join forces with Radio 1 for the mass simulcast on Friday 29 October. Radio 1’s Dance Party host Danny Howard will kick off the marathon show at 6.30pm with 30 minutes of the hottest dance music from the biggest UK acts before handing over to the next country...

BBC Radio 1Xtra to launch weekly UK Afrobeats Chart Show

BBC Radio 1Xtra is introducing a weekly UK Afrobeats chart show presented by Eddie Kadi. The hour-long show will air every Sunday from 1pm starting 26th September. It will be compiled by the Official Charts Company based on sales and streams across the UK. Each week Eddie will showcase the hottest music from the scene’s emerging artists and global superstars, as well as championing the sounds, vibes and...

BBC Radio 1 is going Out Out with live music party

BBC Radio 1 is hosting a free party with live music to celebrate the return of the night out, with AJ Tracey, Joel Corry, Sam Fender, Griff and Biffy Clyro the first acts to be named. Radio 1’s Out Out! Live will be free with the exception of a booking fee, and tickets will be distributed to young people across the UK. Hosted by the Radio 1 DJ family, the three-hour show will take place at...

Radio 1’s Live Lounge Month is returning for September

Lil Nas X, Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes and Bring Me The Horizon are among those set to perform in BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge when it returns next month. Live Lounge Month kicks off on Monday 6 September as Radio 1’s new schedule comes into effect, with Rickie, Melvin and Charlie taking on the Live Lounge (Monday-Thursdays, 10.30am-1pm)...

Special guests planned for Nick Grimshaw’s final Radio 1 show

Nick Grimshaw is hosting his final show on BBC Radio 1 this week after 14 years at the station. The last afternoon programme, on Thursday from 2pm till 5.45pm, will be filled with Radio 1 memories and some very special goodbye messages. Nick first joined Radio 1 in 2007 and has hosted a variety of shows across the network including BBC Radio 1 Breakfast. In 2018 he took over the reins of Radio 1’s drivetime show...

Radio services off-air after fire at a North Yorkshire transmitter site

Local and regional radio stations including Capital, Heart, TFM and BBC Radio Tees have lost their analogue FM services around North Yorkshire following a fire at the Bilsdale mast. National stations Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Classic FM along with local DAB services on the MuxCo multiplexes are also suffering from reduced coverage in the area. Freeview services carried by the site are also off-air...