Jenny is an artist, performer, maker of clothes and costume, prop-maker and all-round creative who for too many years was trapped inside the body of a forensic scientist. Having given …
We’re so excited for Bradford’s UK City of Culture year in 2025 and we’re working closely with Bradford 2025 in the build up. One of the ways we’re working with …
This summer holidays we’re working pupils from Bradford schools to get behind the BCB desks and make radio. Today they were on our About Bradford programme and getting a feel …
Mary is an occasional presenter on BCB these days. You can often hear her broacasting from special events or reporting live from venues across the Bradford District. From time to …
Dom Burch, presents Bradford and Beyond on Fridays 4-6pm. Originally from Reading, he’s lived in Yorkshire since 1994. He joined BCB in September 2010 when on a career break from …
Listen Up is BCB’s Youth Music funded project for young people aged 12 – 25 years old that are interested in radio broadcasting. We have a dedicated Youth Development Worker, …
I am the youngest presenter on BCB! (I think). I’m 11 years old – and love presenting my show every week! have been presenting my own show for the …
Bren Travis is a professional musician and tutor from Shipley. He works in many community events across our district including Saltaire Festival, Challenge Festival, Baildon Carnival and many others. …
Rob Walsh presents Blowin. He calls it ‘World-class music radio. Blowin plays what it likes, which is plenty.’ In jazz Blowin’ is ‘Playing music in an unrestrained, unstructured, or …
Mike Kelly presents Pick Of The Podcasts at midday on Tuesdays. He joined BCB in 2018 after being made redundant at EE, prior to this he worked at AA …
Pete has been involved in the alternative music scene for around 45 years, djing and in bands as well as presenting The Turtleshead on BCB since 2001. He also …
Peg started volunteering at BCB in 2011 doing news and current affairs talk shows. She has lived and worked between Bradford and Leeds most of her life and she …
Johna loves humanity, inspirational people, Leeds United and music particularly Punk Rock was reborn which was his personal Anarchy moment when he became the person he wanted to be.
Abi presents Abi’s Obscurities every other Sunday from 7-8pm. She has always been an avid music lover, getting her hands on any underground act she can possibly find, and …
Tony presents About Bradford on Wednesdays 11am – noon and a monthly specialist music show, The Tipping Point. Although he grew up in London’s East End and Essex, he …
Peter moved to Bradford to present on Pennine Radio in 1980. After that his career took him to many Radio stations around the North, presenting pop, Classic Gold, and …
David had lived in Bradford since 1986. His music programme (Crossroads) is a splendid mix of great roots music from all over the world from the 1920’s to today. …
Dive into the world of poetry and spoken word with Spoke Radio Show, hosted by the talented Poet Sharena Lee Satti. This show is a platform for local talent …
Will fell in love with music at an early age but it wasn’t until he moved to Shipley in 2015 that he truly fell in love with vinyl records …
Mark is passionate about music and gets to as many gigs as he can. He has lived in Bradford since coming to uni in 1992 and put down roots. …
John has volunteered at BCB for over 20 years and has tried his hand at most aspects of presenting. He particularly enjoys features on politics, sport and music.
She’s a long term BCBer and finds the challenge of a two hour live broadcast an excellent wellness tool! The focus required is like an exercise in mindfulness. Not …
Shamim is Bradford born and bred and has been a part of BCB since 2014. With a passion for broadcasting, she takes part in both in-studio presentations and outside …
I have been at BCB for nearly 2 years.I Co-host Carers Show and OpenMinds. Cares Show goes out every 2 weeks and Open Minds goes out every 4weeks.I have …
Goodie is a PhD student at the University of Bradford. She joined BCB radio in June 2023 as volunteer trainee. Goodie is passionate about equality of voices and is …
Gail works in the Bradford Music Scene as a Venue & Festival Manager, and is a champion for grassroots music in the district. Boasting over 15 years experience in …
Nigel became involved with BCB over 20 years ago when he was asked to share his top 10 tunes on One To One, and since then he’s grown into …
Bradford resident since 1988…a retired teacher she used to be a regular presenter on Round Table and Afternoon Stretch. Now does occasional outside broadcasts from community events such as …
Nic is a local lad who likes to bring a smile to your face. He presents the show that gives you the feel good factor, and is a passionate …
She first came to bcb as a guest discussing various topics including health matters, literature and reading poetry, some of which she penned herself. She went on to co …
AKA Mistryllaneous – photographer, printmaker, educator, selector (not a dj). One of the DisOriental and No Hands Family: with a love of global beats, electronica, alt pop and beyond. …
Fortnightly from 11pm through till Midnight. Presenting a variety of disco, jazz, soul, funk and electronic music. Digging deep into our record collections to bring old undiscovered gems back …
Every month we shine the spotlight on one of the programmes on BCB. This month we’re telling you about The Northern Corner presented by Doreen Malcolm, which goes out every …
On Saturday 11th May we broadcast the Bradford City Fire Memorial Service, co-presented by June Russell and John Brennan live from Centenary Square between 11am and midday. We broadcast the …
Every year (for 30 years) BCB works with students from Leeds Trinity University’s Journalism course to provide them hands on experience of working at a living, breathing radio station and …
On Friday 3 May we broadcast an epic live outside broadcast from 10am-6pm of the local election results. Maureen Grant, Jenny Kean, Jane Gregory and Phil Towers were our roving …
Listen Up! has had a busy couple of months. We kicked off April with some Easter drop in workshops for young people in the region to dip their toe into …
It’s been a busy half term here at the BCB Studios.We’ve been working with students from the Bradford Citizens to make radio programmes about the issues that matter to them. …
Exciting news here at BCB! Radio 119, which has been part of New Choices over the last few years, has now become part of the BCB family. Radio 119 is …
We’ve been busy working, in collaboration with Word Up North, delivering sessions to school groups to create their own radio programs about the issues that matter to them. So far …
Interested in broadcasting, music, presenting and aged 12-25 in Bradford? Come and check out Youth Music on the 4th / 5th April 10am-12pm and 2-4pm. To book on drop us …
Every year BCB works with students from Leeds Trinity University’s Journalism course to provide them hands on experience of working at a living, breathing radio station and this year will …
This month we were joined by students from Shipley College – Btec Creative Media Production Level 2 as part of their “Getting Ready for Work – Out and About Week”. …
Young Carers Action Day 2024 took place on Wednesday 13th March. To celebrate Young carers in Bradford brought us a very special programme chatting about their lives as carers in …
8th March is International Women’s Day 2024 and, as we do every year, we’ll be celebrating with Radio Venus – a full day of women’s broadcasting. Here’s the full schedule for …
Our Rainbow Primary team had a very special guest in the studios, Astronomer Rod Hine, who answered all their questions on space! You can listen back to Rainbow Stars Space …
Well what a day International Women’s Day (8th March) was – 19 hours of Bradford women broadcasting on BCB as part of Radio Venus. Across the day we had Maria …
February was LGBTQ+ History Month and, as we do every year, we marked and celebrated the month across our broadcast schedule.Throughout the month BCB’s very own LGBGTQ+ programme The Equity …
We welcomed pupils from Belle Vue Girls’ Academy, Bradford Girls’ Grammar School and Immanuel College, as part of Bradford Citizens Pupil Voice Project. They made a special program where they discussed …
Thanks to everyone who came to the this years AGM. As well all know it’s an important date in the BCB calendar so it was great that so many of us …
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of one of our oldest volunteers – Alan Bingley aged 96. Alan was part of our Radio 119 team for adults …
It’s a real achievement to get 700 shows so congratulations to Patrick Thornton, who hosts Selection Box every Wednesday 9-10pm, for reaching the milestone! Here’s to the next 700!
It’s the holidays again and we are once again telling you when we’ll be closed. From Friday 22nd December we’ll be shut and we will be re-opening on Tuesday 2nd …
You may be aware that we’ve teamed up with 509 Arts to work on a special project to rediscover the stories of Bradford’s recent textile past. Over the next few …
BCB would like to offer our very best wishes to volunteer Ben Mussanzi, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday. Ben has been a committed, and much loved, volunteer at BCB for …
Every month in the BCB newsletter we shine the spotlight on one particular programme on the BCB schedule. This week we’re telling you about a new show on BCB called …
Its that time of the year again – the BCB AGM! Yes, it’s the time for us all to get together, reflect on the past year and look forward to …
This November was Bradford Music Month and everyone here at BCB was celebrating the amazing musical culture of Bradford. Every day on Bradford & Beyond we chatted with to a …
BCB Roundtable is our weekly news discussion programme, Friday 12noon – 1pm. It’s an opportunity for three guests, ably assisted by a BCB presenter, to discuss the week’s news – …
After three decades, Terrorvision are still very much in the pink literally, so as they played a triumphant homecoming show at St George’s Hall in Bradford, their first at the …
October was Black History Month and we celebrated and marked the month in a number of different ways at BCB. Every day on Bradford & Beyond, our daily magazine programme …
We held 4 sessions in October which were well attended by presenters, looking at the Ofcom Broadcasting Code, The Ofcom Broadcacting Guidelines as well as looking at our key responbilites …
It was really good to see the young people in the studios taking part in the BCB Youth Music Workshops over half term. Great that they were all able to …
I completed my volunteer training at BCB radio in July 2023. By the end of September 2023, I launched my live health and wellbeing show ‘One Small Step’ a 45-minute …
Our summer co-horts of new volunteers have completed our Introduction To Radio training course and we’rebroadcasting a series of new programmes on BCB 106.6fm. Elizabeth Radice is chatting to interesting …
As mentioned before, over the last few months we’ve been working with 509 Arts on this exciting heritage project. We are capturing the experiences of people working in the mills, …
Bradford Literature Festival (BLF) is an annual festival and year-round cultural outreach programme encompassing the best of literature, music, theatre, cultural discussions, lectures and family events. This year the festival …
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. As always, Bradford has pulled out all the …
2023 is the 75th anniversary of Windrush For the Windrush Generations, the Bradford Heritage Arts and Culture Planning group and it’s supporting partners have prepared an array of Windrush75 activities …
8th March was International Women’s Day and, as we do every year, we broadcast Radio Venus – a full day of women’s broadcasting on BCB. We broadcast a wide variety of …
