Born in 1964,
Kevin Greening is a British radio presenter, who has
worked on several BBC Radio stations, and currently presents
for 102.2 Smooth Radio.
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Contents
- 1 Early
career
- 2 Radio
1
- 3 Radio
5 Live
- 4 Commercial
Radio
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Early career
Kevin grew up in Bristol where he worked voluntarily for the Bristol
Hospital Broadcasting Service and later secured a place at St Catharine's
College, Cambridge, where he was station manager at Cambridge University
Radio. His first job was a construction worker on the Humber
Bridge. He then trained as a studio manager and began his broadcasting
career at the BBC World Service. In 1989, Kevin joined
London's Local station BBC GLR as a producer, before
becoming a presenter of their Breakfast show in 1991.
In April 1993,
Kevin joined the newly launched, Virgin Radio, presenting a Friday and
Saturday evening show and a Sunday morning show. After two months, he
took over their weekday afternoon show, where he remained until he quit
Virgin in December 1993.
Radio 1
In January 1994,
Kevin joined BBC Radio 1, presenting the Weekend
Breakfast Show (Saturday & Sunday 7-10am).
In November 1994, Kevin took over the Weekend Lunchtime show
(Saturday & Sunday 12-2pm). Again he featured many of his
comedy characters featured on Weekend Breakfast.
October 1995
saw Kevin move back to Weekend Breakfast where he would remain for
another 16 months.
Kevin was given the Drivetime show in February 1997. Regular features
on the show included the Joke du Jour, 60 Second Cinema, and the
Evening Procession.
Early mornings have seemed to have played a big role during
Kevin's time at Radio 1, as he has presented Weekend Breakfast and has
also been the main stand-in presenter for Steve
Wright, Chris Evans and Mark
Radcliffe on Weekday Breakfast, but October 1997 saw Kevin
present the Weekday breakfast show alongside Zoe Ball,
where he would remain for 12 months.
Kevin moved to a Sunday morning show from 6.30-10am in
September 1998.
At the time he was also presenting shows for BBC
World Service & a TV show for digital station BBC Choice.
It was during this period that Kevin became the main stand-in
presenter on the network, covering for many weekday presenters
including Scott
Mills, Simon
Mayo & Mark Radcliffe. There was
also a period when Kevin took over the weekday lunchtime show whilst
regular presenter Jo Whiley was away on maternity leave. He
occasionally made light of his status as a stand-in presenter giving
his email address as supply.dj@bbc.co.uk (his real address being
kevin.greening@bbc.co.uk)
On Sunday 16 January 2000, Kevin presented his final Radio 1 show.
In the last half hour he played some of the hilarious sketches from his
time at Radio 1.
Radio 5 Live
Not long after he left Radio 1, in 2000 Kevin's next move was
to BBC Radio 5 Live, where he was a
stand-in presenter for various daytime slots.
In March 2001,
whilst undertaking supply work at Five Live, Kevin he began
co-presenting a Saturday Morning show on GLR's replacement, BBC London Live,
alongside Amanda Hussain, the show went out
from 8-11am on Saturday mornings and lasted until September the same
year when the show was taken over by Danny
Baker.
Commercial Radio
Throughout late 2001 into 2002, Jazz FM employed Kevin for various
stints, then in May 2002,
he briefly joined London's Heart 106.2 presenting their 2-6pm
Weekend afternoon show.
In July 2002,
Kevin joined London's
Indie Rock Station, XFM,
where he presented the Weekday mid-morning show from 10am-1pm until
January 2004,
when he was moved to a Saturday evening show.
After a stand-in stint on the BBC 6
Music Night Train Programme and in addition to XFM, in April 2004, Kevin re-joined Jazz
FM where this time he presented a Sunday morning show from 10am-2pm.
Not long after, he also took over from Clive
Warren on the Saturday Morning show, which also went out from 10am-2pm.
On 7
June 2005,
Kevin took over the 10am-3pm slot on Jazz FM's replacement, 102.2
Smooth FM. From March 26th 2007, he moved to a 1pm-4pm weekday
afternoon slot on the relaunched 102.2
Smooth Radio. He also presents Saturday afternoons from 1-5pm on the
station.
Kevin is openly gay
and has a long-term boyfriend, whom he often referred to on air as his "lesbian
life-partner."
Preceded by
Mark and Lard |
BBC Radio One
Breakfast Show Presenter
1997 - 1998 (with Zoe Ball) |
Succeeded by
Zoe
Ball (solo) |