Edith Eleanor Bowman was born on 1974 and is a Scottish radio DJ and television presenter.
24 Facts About Edith Bowman
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Edith Bowman hosted Colin and Edith, weekday afternoons, weekend breakfast, and The Radio 1 Review on BBC Radio 1 until 2014 and has presented a variety of music-related television shows and music festivals.
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Edith Bowman attended secondary school at Waid Academy in Anstruther and then continued her studies in Media and Communication at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
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Edith Bowman went on to host many shows for the station, including co-presenting chart show Hitlist UK with Cat Deeley, with whom she presented travel show Roadtripping for BBC Choice in 2002.
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Edith Bowman worked as a presenter on Channel 4's breakfast show RI:SE when it launched on 29 April 2002.
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Edith Bowman returned to Top of the Pops for the 2006 Christmas Special.
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Edith Bowman has presented various music programmes for Channel 4 such as Channel 4 Presents.
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Edith Bowman appeared on children's art program SMart in 2007 and has appeared in coverage of festivals such as Glastonbury, T in the Park and Reading and Leeds Festival, for both BBC Radio and TV.
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In December 2021, Edith Bowman appeared in an episode of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, alongside fellow Radio 2 broadcaster Mark Radcliffe.
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Edith Bowman returned to weekday afternoons on 3 November 2008.
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In July 2009 it was announced that Radio 1 was to change its daytime schedule, and this saw Edith Bowman move to Weekend Breakfast.
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Edith Bowman said that she felt she had taken her shows as far as she could, and the move meant she could create a new show for a new market.
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In February 2012, it was announced that Edith Bowman was being replaced by Gemma Cairney on Weekend Breakfast, and would move to Tuesday evenings, in order to take over The Review Show, from DJ Nihal.
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Edith Bowman left weekends on 1 April 2012, but continued on different projects through out-of-house productions which air on the station.
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Edith Bowman's first show of the new Review Show was on 26 March 2013.
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Edith Bowman has presented Soundtracking, a weekly half hour podcast in which she interviews film-makers about musical influences and their choice of music in films.
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In 2005, Edith Bowman presented BBC Scotland's coverage of the Live 8 event at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, and hosted the network's T in the Park programmes with Dougie Anderson who had worked on RI:SE.
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Edith Bowman presented the BBC Three coverage of Glastonbury, T in the Park and the Reading Festival with Colin Murray.
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Edith Bowman hosted the TV coverage of the first Electric Proms with Zane Lowe.
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Edith Bowman presented Evo Music Rooms a late night music programme for Channel 4 and The Vue Film Show, for Channel 4.
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Edith Bowman had a stint with BBC America as an entertainment presenter in 2014.
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In May 2008, Edith Bowman supported the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign in support of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, alongside fellow celebrities: comedian Alan Carr, actress Anna Friel, singer Natalie Imbruglia and model Twiggy.
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From 2015 until 2017 Edith Bowman hosted the annual Young Scot Awards.
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Edith Bowman married Editors frontman Tom Smith in 2013, and the couple have two sons, born in 2008 and 2013.