Liz Kershaw
broadcaster and writer

Liz started in newspapers with a weekly music column in the Yorkshire Post. As a member of a local all-girl band, she was then recruited by Radio Aire in Leeds and then BBC Radio Leeds to present music shows. In 1987, she joined Radio 1 and then, in 2002, moved to BBC Radio 5 which became Radio 5 Live in 2004, presenting news and current affairs programmes.

In 2002, she was a member of the launch line-up on BBC 6 Music where she presented until being ‘retired’ in March 2022. At the same time, from 2000-2011, Liz also hosted daily news breakfast shows on BBC Local Radio, being the only woman to do so solo on the BBC at the time.

From 2015, she made a weekly appearances on Sky News reviewing the morning papers before moving to the newly launched GB News in 2021 to join Eamonn Holmes on Breakfast.

She has written for most national newspapers, including the Independent, in which she had a weekly column from 2008-2002, and The Times and Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. She is currently writing features for the Telegraph.

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