BBC Radio 6 Music is a British digital radio station owned by the BBC and operated by BBC North, specialising primarily in alternative music. BBC 6 Music was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years. It is available only on digital media: DAB radio, the Internet, digital television, and throughout northern and western Europe through the Astra 2B satellite.
BBC Asian Network is a British Asian radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station's target audience is people "with an interest in British Asian lifestyles", especially British Asians between the ages of 18 and 34. The station has production centres in London and Birmingham.
James Paul Theakston is an English television presenter, producer, and actor. He co-presented the former Saturday morning BBC One children's show Live & Kicking, alongside Zoe Ball between 1996 and 1999. He co-hosted BBC One's former music programme Top of the Pops between 1998 and 2003. He currently co-hosts the national breakfast show with Amanda Holden on Heart Radio. He narrated the BBC documentary series Traffic Cops from 2003 and 2015, and again on Channel 5 from 2016 onwards. He has hosted several television programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. He has won a BAFTA for Live & Kicking and numerous awards for his radio work including a SONY GOLD, 3 Silver Awards and 4 Bronze awards, 2 ARQIVA Awards, 3 TRIC awards and 2 New York Radio Festival Awards.
Saeed Jaffrey was a British-Indian actor. His career covered film, radio, stage and television roles over 6 decades and more than a hundred and 50 British, American, and Indian movies. During the 1980s and 1990s he was considered to be Britain's highest-profile Asian actor, thanks to his leading roles in the movie My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and television series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994). He played an instrumental part in bringing together film makers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and acted in several of their Merchant Ivory Productions films such as The Guru (1969), Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978), The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) and The Deceivers (1988).
Jon Holmes is a British comedian, writer, presenter and broadcaster known for his work on such programmes as The Now Show, Listen Against, along with both music and speech radio. He has appeared on numerous television programmes.
Christian Liam O'Connell is a British-Australian radio disc jockey, television host, writer and comedian who presents The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on weekday mornings on Gold 104.3 in Melbourne and the Christian O'Connell Show on weekday evenings on Gold 104.3 in Melbourne, 101.7 WSFM in Sydney, 97.3 FM in Brisbane, Mix 102.3 in Adelaide and 96FM in Perth. He previously presented The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio on weekday mornings from March 2006 which became Absolute Radio in September 2008 until May 2018.
Sonia Deol is an English radio and television presenter of Indian descent.
Silver Street is a radio soap opera broadcast on the BBC Asian Network from 24 May 2004 to 26 March 2010. It was the first soap to be aimed at the British South Asian community,
Paramdeep Sehdev better known as Bobby Friction, is a DJ, television presenter and radio presenter from west London.
Nihal Arthanayake is an English radio and TV presenter who broadcasts on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Jonathan Charles Gaunt is an English radio talk show presenter, TV personality, newspaper columnist, social commentator and spokesman.
Sanjeev Singh Kohli is a British actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his role as shopkeeper Navid Harrid in the BBC sitcom Still Game, Ramesh Majhu in the radio sitcom Fags, Mags and Bags (2007–present), and A.J. Jandhu in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City (2015–present). Since 2019, Kohli has hosted his own television talk show Sanjeev Kohli's Big Talk, on the BBC Scotland channel.
Adil Ray, is a British actor, comedian, and radio/television presenter. Ray stars in the BBC One comedy Citizen Khan, which he created and co-writes, as well as presenting on various BBC radio stations. He is also a presenter on ITV's Good Morning Britain, and has played the role of Sadiq Nawaz in the Channel 4 drama series Ackley Bridge. In 2021 he presented the revival of the British game show Lingo.
Jason Dasey is an Australian-born TV and radio broadcaster, journalist, emcee and media executive working for ABC News and Nine Radio. He is best known for being the first Australian sports host on CNN International and BBC World News and the original anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter Asia and SportsCenter India.
Somethin' Else is a London and New York content agency founded in 1991 by Jez Nelson, Chris Philips and Sonita Alleyne. The company's first production was the Gilles Peterson Show, created for the UK's independent radio network in 1993. The agency specialises in content strategy and production across video, television, audio and social media. In 2017 it was the only company in the UK to feature in Campaign Magazine's School Reports and Broadcast Magazine's Top 100.
BBC MusicIntroducing is BBC Radio's platform supporting unsigned, undiscovered, and under-the-radar UK music talent. It gives artists the opportunity to be played on Local BBC Radio and nationally on BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, 6 Music and the Asian Network, as well as playing Introducing stages at festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend.
Andrew Peach is a radio presenter in the United Kingdom. He presents a daily news and phone-in show on BBC Radio Berkshire which was named 'Best Local Radio Show in the UK' at the 2021 Radio Academy ARIA Awards. He also presents network programmes such as PM and the Six O'Clock News on BBC Radio 4, Newshour and The Newsroom on BBC World Service and reads news bulletins on BBC Radio 2. Peach marked 25 years on BBC Radio on 10 October 2017 with a message of congratulations from Prime Minister Theresa May.
Humza Mohammed Arshad is a British-Pakistani actor, comedian and writer of Pakistani descent. He is best known for his web series Diary of a Bad Man (2010–2013) and Badman (2015–present). His homemade YouTube videos have been viewed more than 100 million times, which makes him one of the most popular online comedians in the UK.
Nadia Ali is an English television and radio presenter of Bangladeshi descent. She is best known for presenting the Sunday evening show on BBC Asian Network.
Nikki Fox is an English broadcaster, presenter and documentary maker. She is a Sony Award-winning journalist who presents for television and network radio. Fox was born with muscular dystrophy. Fox appeared on various TV and Radio shows including Watchdog, The One Show, How to Look Good Naked, and Rip-Off Britain.
