- Iain Dale
Iain Campbell Dale (born 15 July 1962) is an English Conservative, blogger, author, and presenter on internet TV station, 18 Doughty Street Talk TV, which he co-founded with Stephan Shakespeare. He was the first openly gay Conservative to be selected as a Parliamentary candidate. Dale is author or editor of fourteen political books. He presented "Planet Politics" on Oneword Radio and occasionally appeared on "Sunday Service" on BBC Radio Five Live.
- Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode (born Mark Fairey on 2 July 1963) is an English film critic who regularly writes for "Sight and Sound" magazine and "The Observer" newspaper. He is most famous for reviewing films on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio Five Live show on Friday afternoons, and is also the resident movie critic for "The Culture Show". He is also a critic on other branches of the arts for the BBC2 programme "Newsnight Review", …
- John Pienaar
John Pienaar, is the BBC's Senior Political Correspondent, on both television news and BBC Radio Five Live
- Alan Green
Alan Green (born Belfast, Northern Ireland 25 June 1952) is a BBC Radio Five Live sports broadcaster/commentator. He commentates mainly on football, but also covers golf and rowing. Green attended Methodist College Belfast. He then joined Queen's University, Belfast and worked on local newspapers before joining the BBC as a news trainee in 1975. His first match commentary on the radio was a 1982 World Cup qualifier between England and Northern Ireland, …
- Anita Anand
Anita Anand is a British radio presenter and journalist born in London in the United Kingdom. Her parents were Hindus from the North West Frontier of Pakistan bordering on Afghanistan. She considers her background to have been "soupy"; while her parents had an arranged marriage, she values her sense of freedoms from having grown up in a western culture. She has been European Head of News and Current Affairs for Zee TV, …
- Stephen Nolan
Stephen Nolan, born Belfast in 1973, is a radio and television presenter for BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Radio Five Live. He was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and The Queen's University of Belfast where he studied French and Business Studies.
- Peter Allen
Peter Edwin Allen is UK radio broadcaster, and the current co-presenter of BBC Radio Five Live's Drive programme. Allen was ITN political correspondent until 1992 when he was one of "a string of high-profile resignations" following the company's budget cuts. He left ITN to join London News Network. On 1 March 1994 the BBC announced that Allen was to host its new "flagship" Breakfast programme. In 1997 the Breakfast programme was extended by half an hour.
- Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor OBE (born September 15 1944, Worksop, Nottinghamshire) is a football manager and a former player. Taylor grew up in the industrial steel town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, a town with which he still has many connections and regards as his hometown. The son of a sports journalist with The "Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph", Graham found his love of the beautiful game in the stands of the "Old Showground" watching Scunthorpe United, …
- Colin Murray
Colin Murray (born March 10 1977) is a BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Five Live DJ and television presenter from the Dundonald area of east Belfast, Northern Ireland. He went to Methodist College Belfast. His career path includes digging graves at the age of 16, and print journalism for the "Belfast News Letter" and publications in Canada, as well as running the music magazine BLANK.
- Julian Worricker
Julian Worricker is a British journalist. He currently presents a Sunday morning current affairs programme on BBC Radio Five Live, and is a regular presenter on the BBC's domestic rolling news channel BBC News 24. He was born in Surrey on 6 January 1963. Educated at Epsom College, he went on to study English literature at the University of Leicester. He was an only child. He joined the BBC in 1985 as a staff reporter for BBC Radio Leicester, …
- Rhod Sharp
Rhod Sharp (b. 1953) is a Scottish-born broadcaster, best known as a presenter of Up All Night on BBC Radio Five Live.
- Clare Balding
Clare Balding (born 29 January 1971 in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England) is a BBC sports presenter, and journalist. In 1989 and 1990, she was a leading amateur flat jockey and Champion Lady Rider in 1990. She was educated at Downe House, a girls' independent school near Thatcham in Berkshire, and studied English at Newnham College, …
- Jane Garvey
Jane Garvey (born in Liverpool) is a presenter of BBC Radio Five Live's Drive programme. Jane Garvey was the first voice on Radio Five Live when it launched at 5am on 28 March 1994. She now co-presents, with Peter Allen, Five Live's Drive show on weekday afternoons. Educated at Merchant Taylors Girls' School in Crosby, Liverpool and then later at the University of Birmingham, she had a variety of jobs before she joined the BBC.
- Jimmy Armfield
James Christopher "Jimmy" Armfield OBE (born September 21, 1935 in Denton) is an English former professional football player and manager who currently works as a football pundit for BBC Radio Five Live. He played the whole of his football league career at Blackpool, usually at right back. Between 1954 and 1971 he played 569 games, scored 6 goals, and spent a decade as the club's captain. After Armfield's family moved to Blackpool from Denton, …
- Christian O'Connell
Christian O'Connell is an English radio DJ who presents the Virgin Radio weekday breakfast show. He has formerly hosted BBC Radio Five Live's weekend sports game show "Fighting Talk" alongside the weekday breakfast show on indie music station Xfm London. O'Connell joined the Virgin Radio team making his first broadcast on January 23 2006. O'Connell has an ironic style and sense of humour that some have found occasionally offensive, …
- Fi Glover
Fi (Fiona) Glover (born 27 February 1970) is a BBC journalist and presenter. Her style is characterised by a mix of serious journalism and subtle satirical and sarcastic comment. She grew up in Hampshire, with her mother Priscilla, whilst her father was in Hong Kong establishing a business. Her parents eventually separated. She attended the St Swithun's girls school in Winchester. She had bulimic tendencies in her teens.
- Mark Saggers
Mark Saggers is a journalist and presenter, currently working on BBC Radio Five Live. Saggers began his broadcasting career at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, where his love of sport grew. A wicketkeeper, Saggers also played two list A matches for Cambridgeshire, though he averaged only 3.50 with the bat. His love of sport soon took him to the BBC, joining Radio Sport in 1989. During his first stint with the BBC, Saggers won a Sony Award for his reporting of the Grand National, …
- Brian Alexander
Brian Alexander is a British broadcaster who is regularly to be heard on BBC Radio Five Live in the UK and on the BBC World Service. He hosted the Radio Five programme Late Night Live for a time. He can sometimes be heard presenting special sports discussion programmes on the network. Brian was born on 9 April 1957. During an 18-year career in Fleet Street, Brian worked for nine different national papers.
- David Pleat
David J Pleat was (born January 15, 1945 in Nottingham) is an English football manager and former player, who now provides Champions League commentary for ITV and occasional commentary for BBC Radio Five Live. He is now Director Of Football at Sheffield United. He was a Football Consultant for Nottingham Forest. He has managed Luton Town F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and Sheffield Wednesday F.C. He used to be a consultant at Portsmouth F.C., …
- Roger Mosey
Roger Mosey (born 1958) is a British broadcasting executive who has served as Head of BBC Television News and BBC's Director of Sport. He took up the role in August 2005. His previous jobs include being Editor of Today on BBC Radio 4; Controller of BBC Radio Five Live; and, most recently, Head of BBC Television News.
- Mark Lamarr
Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on January 7, 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian and a presenter on radio and television.
- Lennart Johansson
Lennart Johansson (born 5 November, 1929) was the president of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations from 1990 until 2007. Born in Sweden, Johansson lives in Stockholm and was the president of local football club AIK's football section until he stepped down in 2005. In April 2005 he was re-elected for a new two-year period as President of UEFA, and announced that he would seek another four-year term. However, he lost the UEFA leadership election of 26 January, …
- Jacqui Oatley
Jacqui Oatley (born 1975 in Codsall, South Staffordshire near Wolverhampton) is an English football commentator, notable for being the first female football commentator on the BBC One programme "Match of the Day". After wanting to play football professionally, Oatley graduated with a degree in German from the University of Leeds in 1996.
- Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson is a British football commentator, currently working on the BBC's "Match of the Day" programme. He previously worked on BBC Radio Five Live. He supports Tranmere Rovers FC and lives in Sussex. Described by The Observer TV critic as "the best commentator on the 2002 and 2006 World Cups".
- Conor McNamara
Conor McNamara is a football commentator. He lives in Limerick, Ireland. He works for BBC Radio Five Live. Conor studied at the University of Salford. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Business Studies from University College Dublin. McNamara worked as a reporter and wrote for Irish Times and the Irish Examiner. His first commentary was on FA Cup final in 1997 for Irish national radio. His first television commentary was for TV3 in 1998 for the Republic of Ireland vs.
- Jon Champion
Jon Champion (born 23 May 1965 in Harrogate, England) is a TV and radio sports commentator. His late father David Champion was the deputy headmaster of a leading English private school, Bootham School York. Jon Champion began his career as a commentator and reporter for BBC Radio York, moving to BBC Radio Leeds in 1988 and then on to BBC Radio 2 network sport.
- Steve Bunce
Steve Bunce is a freelance television and radio sport pundit and newspaper columnist, primarily for boxing, although he has appeared discussing many other sports.
- Sian Williams
Sian Mary Williams (born 28 November 1964 in Eastbourne, Sussex) is a television presenter for the BBC. She currently presents BBC Breakfast on Monday-Thursday alongside Dermot Murnaghan.
- Matt Smith
Matt Smith (born 1967, Liverpool) is a British broadcaster, and currently one of ITV Sport's main presenters. He also presents shows on BBC Radio Five Live He presents "The Championship" highlights programme every Sunday on ITV1, as well as hosting UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League games and highlights. He can also be heard presenting "Weekend Breakfast" with Rachel Burden, and occasionally covering on the "Drive" 4pm-7pm weekday show, …
- Cornelius Lysaght
Cornelius Lysaght is the horse racing correspondent of the BBC, usually broadcasting on Five Live radio. He took up this post in 2001, succeeding Peter Bromley, who had held the position since 1959. Lysaght, who was raised in Herefordshire and educated at Eton College, became a cult figure in the late 1990s when appearing on BBC Radio 1 as the voice of Mark and Lard's competition feature Dobbins or Bobbins.
- Gideon Coe
Gideon Coe is a radio DJ, presenter, sportscaster, voice-over artist, and journalist. He was born on 22nd September 1967 Coe graduated from Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, now Coventry University in 1989. He gained a 2.1 in Communication Studies. During his time there he played rhythm guitar with pop/punk bands Cradle Song and The Vendetta Men.
- Ian Payne
Ian Payne (born December 1962 in Germany) is a British television broadcaster who (as of 2005) works for Sky Sports as presenter of its FA Cup and League Cup coverage. He began his career with BBC Radio Lancashire in 1986 and was once named as Northwest Young Journalist of the Year. Payne joined BBC Radio network sport in 1988, initially as a producer with BBC Radio 2 and on programmes including BBC Radio 4's "Today".
- Tommy Boyd
Timothy Leslie Boyd (born December 14, 1952), better known as Tommy Boyd, is a radio presenter and former children's television presenter who now lives in Chichester, West Sussex.
- Dj Spoony
DJ Spoony ("born Jonathan Joseph in 1970 in the London Borough of Hackney ") is a British DJ, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter. Spoony's broadcasting career started on London Underground (a leading pirate radio station in the mid-nineties). he then joined Kiss 100, where he became a member of the "Dreem Teem" with Mikee B and Timmi Magic. The Dreem Team then brought UK garage to Radio1. His weekend breakfast show allowed listeners to join the Early Doors Club, …
- Anita Rani
Anita Rani is a Radio and Television Presenter and journalist in the United Kingdom Born in Bradford, England in 1977 to parents from the Punjabi Sikh community, she spent her childhood living in the town of her birth. She developed an early interest in journalism, hosting her first show at the age of 14 and later studying Broadcasting at the University of Leeds. After leaving university she worked as a researcher for the BBC and other organisations.
- Jane Hill
Jane Hill is a British journalist working for the BBC. She is one of the main presenters of rolling news channel BBC News 24 and a regular relief-anchor for BBC One O'Clock News and BBC Six O'Clock News, plus occasionally presents weekend editions. After studying Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, Hill worked at the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington DC before joining the BBC on a full-time basis at the end of 1991.
- John Rawling
John Rawling, born 1957, has been the main boxing commentator on ITV since boxing returned to the network in September 2005. In 2007, he was named Sports Commentator of the Year by the Royal Television Society for his work in ITV Sport's "The Big Fight Live". He previously commentated on boxing and athletics for BBC Radio, and was named Sony Radio Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 1994.
- Peter Drury
Peter Drury has been a leading member of the ITV Sport commentary team since arriving at ITV in 1998. A politics graduate from Hull University, Peter began his career as a journalist with Hayters sports agency before joining BBC Radio Leeds in 1990 as a football and cricket commentator, presenter and reporter. Three years later, he moved to BBC Network Radio Sport. There, he worked for BBC Radio Five Live on a variety of sports, …
- Liz Forgan
Dame Elizabeth "Liz" Anne Lucy Forgan, DBE (born 1944) is a British journalist and television executive who was educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Forgan was a founding commissioning editor and then Director of Programmes at the UK's Channel 4 from 1981 to 1990. She initially worked on newspapers starting with Teheran Journal's as Arts Editor 1967-68, at the Hampstead and Highgate Express 1969-74, …
- Clare McDonnell
Clare McDonnell (born 1967) is a radio broadcaster and presenter. Clare began as a reporter in local radio in England, and from there moved on to be a radio presenter. For several years, she presented the Breakfast Show on BBC GLR Radio, and many shows on national radio, such as the "Trade Update" series on BBC Radio 1, and "Global" on BBC Radio Five Live, also working on the Nicky Campbell Show on Five Live as the Euro News presenter.