Liz Kershaw

Liz Kershaw (born 3 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 pop 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, BBC Radio Northampton to be precise 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 occassional stints on Radio 2.