Mim Shaikh is a broadcaster, actor, and documentary storyteller whose work bridges culture, identity, and creativity across radio, television, and film.
Raised in South London by his grandmother after early family challenges, Mim found his voice through storytelling and community. He studied at Rutlish High School and Coombe Sixth Form before moving to Leeds for university, where he discovered his passion for broadcasting at Leeds Student Radio. His early shows earned him Student Radio Awards for Best Specialist Music Programming and Best Interview.
Mim’s talent soon caught the attention of the BBC. After interning at BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat and joining the BBC’s Hackney Academy, he went on to present for BBC Asian Network and BBC Radio 1Xtra, becoming the first South Asian daytime presenter on 1Xtra. He has also guest-hosted shows for major figures including Trevor Nelson.
Alongside his radio work, Mim has built an impressive acting career. He made his screen debut in Riz Ahmed’s short film Daytimer (2014) and appeared in the BAFTA-winning short Sunni // Shia (2016). His screen credits include Freehold (SXSW selection, 2018), Informer (BBC), King Gary, Casualty, Doctors, and the romantic comedy What’s Love Got to Do With It? (2023). In 2024, he featured in Channel 4’s acclaimed drama Queenie.
As a documentarian, Mim wrote, produced, and presented BBC Three’s Finding Dad (2018), which followed his deeply personal journey to reconnect with his estranged father in Pakistan. The film was nominated for Best Factual Programming at the Asian Media Awards and cemented his reputation as an authentic and emotionally intelligent storyteller. He later appeared in BBC Two’s Pilgrimage: The Road to Istanbul (2022), where he spoke openly about his liberal Muslim faith, and in Celebrity MasterChef (2019).
Mim continues to amplify under-represented voices through his podcast Aik Cup Chai: Crossing Cultures, produced with Independent Urdu, and as an ambassador for ScreenSkills, where he mentors emerging talent in the creative industries. His work earned him the Greater London Authority Identity Storyteller Award in 2024.
Hailing from Northern Ireland and growing up immersed in musical theatre and modelling, entertaining has been second nature to Jordan since childhood. Prior to landing her dream job in radio, she regularly performed in Northern Ireland’s most prestigious theatres, hosted large events, fronted vlogs for large brands, modelled internationally and appeared on television multiple times.
She landed her job at Q Radio in 2019, beginning on the weekday Breakfast Show. After 2 years and working with various co-hosts, she graduated to her own, solo Afternoon Show which she still presents weekdays 1-4pm, along with the Sunday Breakfast Show. After her first year on air she bagged an IMRO Award in the category of Best Newcomer. With the top listening figures at Q Radio for the last 2 years and frequent engagements at roadshows and events, Jordan is very much a huge part of the station.
With a passion for female empowerment, Jordan hosts a weekly segment on her show called Girl Talk, where she interviews a different female guest every Thursday. Her engaging and down-to-earth approach to interviews always puts guests at ease, and over the past 3 years they have included the likes of Becky Hill, Katie Piper, Freya Ridings, Zara Larsson, Dame Prue Leith, Vogue Williams, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Katharine Ryan, to name a few. Not limited to female guests, outside of Girl Talk, she has also enjoyed chats with stars including Jason Derulo, Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, James Blunt, Boyzlife, Blue and Michael Ball.
Outside of Q, Jordan frequently covers on HSBC Radio and Co-Op Radio, with whom she’s attended and covered events such as Reading Festival, Leeds Festival and Download Festival. Her voiceover work can be heard across the UK and the whole island of Ireland, both on radio and in stores such as Tesco, H&M, Superdrug, Holland and Barrett, B&Q and many more.
This year, Jordan started a new freelance role with BBC NI, learning a new skillset as a director and announcer in TV continuity. In front of the camera, Jordan was a panellist in season 2 of BBC’s Think Tank, with Bill Turnbull, and was on all 5 seasons of BBC’s The Ranganation. In the latter, she went by the moniker Small Town Girl and frequently had celebrity guests laughing along with her stories. Other TV appearances include a guest role in BBC NI’s The Paddy Raff Show and as a singer in the Emmy Award winning Music Of Northern Ireland on PBS. She even bagged a date with BBC Radio One’s Melvin O’Doom on a celebrity edition of Take Me Out in 2016!
With a solid social media following, Jordan has work on numerous ad campaigns with many big brands over the last 5 years- Bosch, Heineken, Domino’s Pizza, McDonalds, Harp and bperfect Cosmetics are just some past collaborators. The main aim of her content is to remain authentic and relatable with a humorous twist.
Her comedic skills have recently seen her taking to the stage of Belfast’s Grand Opera House, taking on the roles of Paulette in Legally Blonde and Madame Thenardier in the UK Amateur Premiere of Les Miserables, both to great acclaim.
Outside of radio, TV and theatre, Jordan writes a monthly lifestyle column for Local Women Magazine, for which she has been nominated as columnist of the year. Additionally, she frequently hosts events across the country, from awards shows to parades and corporate functions to charity balls.
She has been married to chef Ben for 2 years and they live together in East Belfast with their very spoiled cavapoo Bumbles. When not working, Jordan loves nothing more than downtime spent with the 2 of them, enjoying great food, wine, music and conversation.
Calum presents Times Radio Breakfast on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings alongside Chloe Tilley. He moved to Breakfast in 2022, having joined Times Radio from its launch in 2020 to produce and present the Early Breakfast programme. Friday-Sunday’s Breakfast programme is the most-listened to programme on the station (RAJAR, Q3 2024). The four-hour agenda setting programme has built up a strong reputation for providing well-informed, thoughtful and intelligent news and discussion, covering the key stories of the day. As part of his work with Times Radio, he anchored coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth the Second from Scotland, was part of the station’s General Election 2024 results programme, providing analysis on the results as they came in and hosted US Election Night 2024.
Calum also hosts the Holyrood Sources and Whitehall Sources podcasts, taking you inside politics at the Scottish Parliament and at Westminster. January 2025 was one of the biggest months yet for the Holyrood Sources podcast – over 1 million people saw, heard and engaged with our podcast content. Well over 2.6 million encountered the resulting news coverage.
A week after graduating with a degree in politics from the University of Edinburgh in 2015, Calum worked for the BBC, as a researcher on Victoria Derbyshire’s new TV programme. He then moved to BBC Radio 5 Live where he produced programmes across the schedule. He also read the news, before presenting for the first time, aged 23, covering BBC Radio 5 Live’s Up All Night programme. In September 2019, he was brought in to present a new commission for BBC Radio Scotland: Debate Night Extra, a weekly political phone-in programme.
He’s hosted live events with the podcast and for corporate clients – the Times Food and Drink Summit, the Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Awards, the Newsworks Awards including Q&A sessions, interviews, plus MCing responsibilities as well.
Adam Catterall is a multi-award winning broadcaster who began his on-air career in 2005 following a stint as resident DJ for global dance brand Gatecrasher. Within 18 months of his first radio show, Adam was appointed the new breakfast show host of Lancashire’s Rock FM a position he held for just over 3 years. In that time he won several awards including an Arqiva for UK commercial radio presenter of the year in 2007 and a nomination at the radio academy awards for personality of the year in 2008.
In 2010, Adam decided not to renew his contract with Rock FM in order to chase his dream of presenting on BBC Radio 1, a dream that was realized in April 2011 with Adam becoming a regular fixture on the network.
After a successful summer in 2012 presenting at the London Olympic games, Adam decided the time was right to pursue another dream in presenting sport. Absolute Radio in London gave him the opportunity to host ‘Rock n Roll Football with Ian Wright’ in August of 2012.
Personal circumstances forced Adam to move closer to home in 2013 and accept an offer from Key 103 in Manchester. After an incredible personal Rajar year against the performance of the station as a whole, Adam was made the host of their drive time show in 2014.
TalkSPORT were soon to knock on the door and at the start of 2015 Adam began to balance his weekly duties in Manchester with his brand new weekend extra time show in London. Wanting to utilize his incredible talent for speech broadcasting, Bauer Media allowed Adam to see out the remainder of his contract with Key103 at their sister station Radio City Talk in Liverpool presenting a daily sports show.
It was here he created the Fight Disciples podcast alongside a regular guest on his radio show, Nick Peet. The pair collected best sports show at the 2017 British podcast awards, a fete they repeated in 2018.
During this time Adam began to host all of the fight sports output on TalkSport. His coverage of Wilder vs Fury 2 in Las Vegas was nominated for a sports journalism award. Adam also picked up a further two nominations for Best Sports Presenter and Best Sports Show for his podcast with Frank Warren the boxing promoter.
His broadcasting skills have transferred seamlessly to television with Adam being the face of TNT Sports UFC coverage. He’s also become a valuable asset to their boxing team, hosting regular weekly shows on the platform and was trusted to anchor the live coverage of the Mike Tyson comeback fight.
He is no stranger to the world of voice over either with 15 years experience lending his dulcet tones to everything from animated characters to television station branding.
Music, entertainment, sport, Adam specialises in conversation creating an environment of comfort for his guests to truly be themselves.