Shaun Keaveny

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Shaun Keaveny
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Keaveny at the Latitude Festival, 2013
Born
Shaun William Keaveny

(1972-06-14) 14 June 1972 (age 52)
Leigh, Lancashire, England
NationalityEnglish
Education St Mary's Catholic High School, Astley
Alma mater Trinity and All Saints College
Occupation(s) Radio presenter
Comedian
Magician
Musician (drums)
Known for BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Radio 2

Shaun William Keaveny (born 14 June 1972) [1] [2] is a British broadcaster who presented the Breakfast Show on radio station BBC Radio 6 Music for 11 years, and the afternoon show for a further 3 years. [3]

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Education and early life

Keaveny grew up on the Higher Folds housing estate in Leigh, Lancashire. [4] He attended St Mary's Catholic High School, Astley and then Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds. [5]

Career

Keaveny joined the BBC and presented the weekday afternoon show (Monday-Thursday) and the Friday breakfast show on XFM London until 2006.[ citation needed ]

Keaveny joined BBC Radio 6 Music in 2007 and presented its late evening show until April 2007. He began presenting the BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show on 2 April 2007. He also substitutes for a range of presenters on BBC Radio 2. [6] The show was originally presented by Phill Jupitus, who had hosted the show since the station's inception in March 2002. The show had regular music news updates from presenter Matt Everitt and Georgie Rogers.[ citation needed ] Professor Brian Cox was a regular contributor to the show.[ when? ]

Keaveny's first book, R2D2 lives in Preston [7] was published in November 2010. It is a compilation of little known facts relating to various towns throughout the United Kingdom, advised by listeners to his radio show in a feature entitled Toast the Nation. [8]

On 16 February 2013, Keaveny took part in the fifth series of Let's Dance for Comic Relief as a member of Destiny's Dad alongside fellow stand-up comedians Hal Cruttenden and Mark Dolan. [9]

It was announced in August 2018 that Keaveny would move from his weekday BBC 6 Music breakfast show, to the Radcliffe and Maconie weekday afternoon slot in January 2019. [10] [11] Keaveny hosted his final Breakfast Show live from the Maida Vale Studios on 14 December 2018 as part of the BBC 6 Music All Day Christmas Party. [12]

The Channel 5 series The Mega Council Estate Nextdoor aired in September 2020 was narrated by Keaveny. [13]

In June 2021, he announced that he would be leaving 6 Music in September 2021 after 14 years at the station saying "Things change, places change, people change, and it's time for a change." [14]

In August 2021, March 2022 and October 2024, he presented the Saturday teatime show on BBC Radio 2 covering for Liza Tarbuck.

His final 6 Music show was on 10 September 2021.

After leaving BBC 6 Music he set up Community Garden Radio, an internet service which sees Keaveny broadcast a live show every Wednesday, and started a podcast called Creative Cul De Sac about people's unrealised ideas, as well as hosting The Line-Up, discussing guests' dream festivals. [15]

Since April 2022 Keaveny has presented the BBC Radio 4 show Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny, on Saturday mornings where, with a co-presenter, guests from around the world try to convince him to visit the places they come from. [16] [17]

Personal life

Keaveny is married, and a parent to two sons and a daughter. [18] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Shaun Keaveny Live from Leigh, Lancashire". BBC.
  2. ↑ "Shaun's 40th Birthday Surprise!". BBC. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  3. ↑ "Shaun Keaveny Afternoon Show Mon-Fri 13:00-16:00". BBC.
  4. 1 2 McGarrigle, Clyde (17 March 2017). "Shaun Keaveny: 'I was like one of those Italian sons who don't have to lift a finger'". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Uni goings-on part 1 - Shaun Keaveny". Leeds Trinity University. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Shaun Keaveny to present new breakfast show on BBC 6 Music", BBC Press Release, 12 March 2007.
  7. ↑ ISBN   0-7522-2745-9, Boxtree (19 November 2010), downloaded 1 December 2010
  8. ↑ "Toast the Nation". toastthenation.com.
  9. ↑ "Let's Dance for Comic Relief: Destiny's Dad". BBC. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  10. ↑ Sporn, Natasha (2019). "Lauren Laverne to replace Shaun Keaveny in huge BBC Radio 6 shake-up". Evening Standard . London.
  11. ↑ "Shaun Keaveny: the 6 Music curmudgeon who breaks every rule of breakfast radio". i. 10 August 2018.
  12. ↑ "Shaun Keaveny's last Breakfast Show - #BreakfastExit". BBC Radio 6 Music Shaun Keaveny. 14 December 2018.
  13. ↑ The Mega Council Estate Next Door (Documentary), Shaun Keaveny, Avalon, Channel 5 Television, 6 September 2020, retrieved 29 January 2021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ↑ "Shaun Keaveny to leave BBC 6 Music after 14 years". BBC. 11 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  15. ↑ "The week in radio: 5 Live Drive; Nazanin; Shaun Keaveny's Community Garden Radio and more". The Guardian . 19 February 2022.
  16. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny - Available now". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  17. ↑ "Your Place Or Mine". comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  18. ↑ Elms, Robert (10 April 2022). "Shaun Keaveny, Keith Kahn-Harris, Peter Hughes". Robert Elms. BBC Radio. BBC Radio London. Retrieved 7 May 2022. We've got the two older boys and we've got our little daughter now, and my two older boys are... trying to inculcate southern vowels into my daughter, which me and my wife are a bit annoyed about.
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