Shaun William Keaveny is a British broadcaster who presents the breakfast show on digital radio station BBC Radio 6 Music.
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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".
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. The show was originally presented by Phill Jupitus, who had hosted the show since the station's inception in March 2002. His current breakfast show includes features such as 'Middle Aged Shout-Outs', 'Small Claims Court' and 'Keaveny's Believe It or Not'. The show has regular music news updates from presenter Matt Everitt. Professor Brian Cox is a regular contributor to the show.
Keaveny's first book, R2D2 lives in Preston 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.
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Early and personal life
Keaveny grew up on the Higher Folds housing estate in Leigh, Greater Manchester. He attended Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds. As of 2017, he is a single parent to two sons.
References
External links
- Shaun Keaveny at BBC Programmes
- "Toast the Nation" website
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