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Liz Kershaw

Liz Kershaw (born 3rd January 1960) is one of the UK's most high-profile female music broadcasters.

The younger sister of fellow broadcaster and world music obsessive Andy Kershaw, she began her career as a music journalist for the Yorkshire Post before joining Leeds station Radio Aire, where her brother also worked for a time.

Her next move was to the BBC and local station Radio Leeds before the call came from BBC Radio 1 to present a music magazine show called Backchat. After winning a number of awards, she progressed to the evening show and then her best known slot, the weekend breakfast show which she co-hosted with Bruno Brookes. The two projected a 'love-hate' relationship on-air, and got their fair share of PR in the tabloids as a result, including Kershaw smashing a turntable live on air because she hated a Wet Wet Wet record being played on it; and the two pulling a stunt of getting married as an April Fool. During this period they also made a charity record for the BBC's Children In Need campaign; a version of It Takes Two. They later made two more fundraising records featuring their Radio 1 colleagues and guest vocalists Frank Bruno and Samantha Fox, though only one charted.

She left Radio 1 in 1992 to present a phone-in on BBC Radio 5 in its original form, but still continued to present documentary programmes on Radio 1 until mid 1993. She was part of the team which would later relaunch the station and give it its current name of 5 Live. She also went back to local radio for a spell, presenting BBC Radio Northampton's breakfast programme, and presented documentaries for the other three BBC national networks - Radio 2, Radio 3 and Radio 4.

In 2002, she was one of the original presenters on the newly launched, digital station BBC 6 Music where she presented the weekday afternoon show from 1-4pm. She currently hosts 6 Music's Weekend mid-morning slot from 10am-1pm, alongside occasional stints on Radio 2.

In Spetember 2005 Liz began presenting the weekday drivetime show on the BBC's new BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio station.

Some or all material in this page has been adapted from the Liz Kershaw entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Kershaw), or others, in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), the free encyclopedia.