Shaun Keaveny
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Shaun William Keaveny (born 14 June 1972, Leigh, Lancashire) is a British broadcaster, who presents the breakfast show on digital radio station BBC 6 Music.
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[edit] Career
He played guitar for John Ariss in the student band Mosque between 1987-93. He joined XFM in 2000 fronting the Early Breakfast show warming up for Christian O'Connell, and later presented the weekday afternoon show (Monday-Thursday) and the Friday breakfast show on XFM London up until 2006. 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 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".
He was often derided by Richard Bacon during Bacon's now defunct XFM drive-time show, though he had cordial relations with Bacon offair. Keaveny joined BBC 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.[1] The show was originally presented by Phill Jupitus, who had hosted the show since the station's inception in March 2002.
Keaveny's first book, R2D2 lives in Preston[2] 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'.
[edit] Personal
Keaveny married Lucy Irving in May 2009; they have one child.
[edit] References
- ^ "Shaun Keaveny to present new breakfast show on BBC 6 Music", BBC Press Release, 12 March 2007.
- ^ ISBN-10: 0752227459, Boxtree (19 November 2010), downloaded 1 December 2010
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