10 Facts About Liz Kershaw

Elizabeth Marguerita Mary Kershaw was born on 30 July 1958 and is an English radio broadcaster.

Liz Kershaw is the second longest serving female national radio DJ in the UK, celebrating 30 years on national BBC Radio in 2017.

Liz Kershaw left Radio 1 in 1992 to present The Crunch, the UK's first national daily phone-in on BBC Radio 5.

Liz Kershaw presented documentaries for Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3 and Radio 4.

In 1984 Liz Kershaw formed a band called Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits with her friend and neighbour Countdown presenter Carol Vorderman.

Liz Kershaw later presented the weekday Breakfast Show for the station and continued to present a show on BBC Radio 6 Music, but on Saturdays only.

In July 2007, following a complaint from Buckingham Palace about the misrepresentation of the Queen in a BBC documentary, Mark Thompson, then-Director-General of the BBC, in a public purging exercise, singled out Liz Kershaw's show in what became an infamous BBC scandal, announcing that some of the DJ's shows that were aired as live were in fact pre-recorded and that members of the production team had passed themselves off as listeners texting and emailing into competitions.

Liz Kershaw was forbidden from commenting on this by a clause in her contract which prevented her from speaking publicly about the BBC and its affairs.

In October 2012, Liz Kershaw told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that she had been routinely groped while working as a Radio1 DJ in the 1980s.

Liz Kershaw said the station had a culture that was very intimidating for a young woman.