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词条 Shaun Keaveny
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  1. Career

  2. Early and personal life

  3. References

  4. External links

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}}Shaun William Keaveny is a British broadcaster who presents the afternoon show on digital radio station BBC Radio 6 Music.[1]

Career

He played guitar and sang in the student band Mosque between 1987 and 1993. He joined BBC in 2000 fronting the Good Morning Britain breakfast show warming up for Anne Diamond, and later presented the weekday afternoon show (Monday-Thursday) and the Friday breakfast show on XFM London until 2006. By night he performed stand-up using the name the Leigh Buffalo. His work on television includes appearing with Richard Bacon on his show Flipside TV (Channel 4 and Paramount Comedy), with Mary Anne Hobbs on JAMZ (Nation 217) and appeared on Ready Steady Cook with Huey Morgan. He also appeared as himself in an episode of The Bill in 2005. He has narrated for E4's Stop Treating Me Like a Kid, Superheroes for Sky One and Channel 4's Road to V; and was the new "voice of Sky One".

In 2006 Keaveny bought a small cider farm in Somerset and launched his own brand of craft cider "Keaveny's Krackers" the following Autumn to critical acclaim. Keaveny's Krackers was nominated for the British Cider Association's "Second Best Cider Award - 2008".

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.[2] The show was originally presented by Phill Jupitus, who had hosted the show since the station's inception in March 2002. Keaveny's breakfast show included features such as listeners' earworms 'Middle Aged Shout-Outs', 'Small Claims Court' and 'Keaveny's Believe It or Not'. The show had regular music news updates from presenter Matt Everitt and Georgie Rogers. Professor Brian Cox was a regular contributor to the show.

Keaveny's first book, R2D2 lives in Preston[3] 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".

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

On 11 April 2014, Keaveny was brought on stage by Manchester band Elbow at Leeds First Direct Arena to play extra drums on their track Grounds for Divorce.

It was announced in August 2018 that Keaveny would move from his weekdays BBC 6 Music breakfast show, to the Radcliffe and Maconie weekdays afternoon slot in January 2019.[4][5] 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. [6]

Early and personal life

Keaveny grew up on the Higher Folds housing estate in Leigh, Greater Manchester.[7] He attended Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds.[7] {{Asof|2017}}, he is a single parent to two sons.[8]

References

1. ^[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l9k Shaun Keaveny Afternoon Show Mon-Fri 13:00-16:00, BBC Radio 6music website]
2. ^"Shaun Keaveny to present new breakfast show on BBC 6 Music", BBC Press Release, 12 March 2007.
3. ^{{ISBN|0-7522-2745-9}}, Boxtree (19 November 2010), downloaded 1 December 2010
4. ^{{cite web |title=Lauren Laverne to replace Shaun Keaveny in huge BBC Radio 6 shake-up |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/lauren-laverne-to-replace-shaun-keaveny-in-huge-bbc-radio-6-music-shakeup-from-next-year-a3907566.html |website=Evening Standard}}
5. ^{{cite web |title=Shaun Keaveny: the 6 Music curmudgeon who breaks every rule of breakfast radio |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/radio/shaun-keaveny-6music-bbc-breakfast-radio/ |website=i |date=10 August 2018}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Shaun Keaveny's last Breakfast Show - #BreakfastExit|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001kgd|website=BBC Radio 6 Music Shaun Keaveny|date=14 December 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Uni goings-on part 1 - Shaun Keaveny|url=http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/blogs/Uni-goings-on-part-1---Shaun-Keaveny|publisher=Leeds Trinity University| date=6 November 2013}}
8. ^{{cite news|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Shaun Keaveny: ‘I was like one of those Italian sons who don’t have to lift a finger’| url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/17/shaun-keaveny-i-was-like-one-of-those-italian-sons-dont-have-to-lift-finger-radio-presenter| date=17 March 2017|newspaper=the Guardian|first=Clyde |last=McGarrigle}}

External links

  • {{BBC programme}}
  • "Toast the Nation" website
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