Katie-Louise Buxton (Katie-Lou) is a radio presenter, host, and music journalist with a naturally warm, friendly on-air style and a genuine love of connecting with people through music.
Currently heard on Shock Radio and Radio Alty, Katie-Louise brings thoughtfulness, curiosity, and calm confidence to every show she presents. Her journey into radio began through music and performance, having previously worked as a musician and actor. One of her most memorable moments was performing in a choir on stage with Sir Paul McCartney — an experience that sparked her passion for storytelling and the power of live sound.
Known for her calm, passionate, and approachable nature, Katie-Louise loves getting to the heart of the stories behind the songs and creating a space where listeners feel welcomed and heard. Her sincere and people-first approach has been recognised with industry awards, including Demo Factor Winner 2025 and Best Chart Programming at the 2025 Student Radio Awards.
At the core of everything she does is a strong belief in creativity, community, and the ability of radio to bring people together — one conversation at a time.
Away from the studio, Katie-Louise is most likely at a gig, watching films, or out exploring the outdoors. She’s happiest surrounded by great music, great stories, and the people who share her enthusiasm for both.
Lauren Redfern is a vibrant and engaging radio presenter, best known for her work on BBC Radio 1 Anthems. With her infectious energy and natural warmth, she’s fast becoming one of the most exciting new voices in UK radio.
She’s brought her love of nostalgia and feel-good music to shows including Radio 1’s 100 Greatest Anthems and Radio 1 Anthems Discovery, and helped launch the station live on air alongside Greg James and Charlie Hedges on Radio 1 Breakfast. Lauren has since hosted Friday Early Breakfast, weekend shows, and Radio 1’s Big Weekend coverage.
Lauren began her radio journey in 2022 at Black Country Radio, before studying Media Production at Birmingham City University. In 2024 she joined the university’s Scratch Radio, producing and presenting The Noughties Throwback Hour. Later that year, her standout talent was recognised when she won Demo Factor 2024, catapulting her from student radio to national BBC presenting.
Before broadcasting, Lauren worked as a performer and entertainer for Disneyland Paris and Butlins, experience that shines through in her confident, audience-focused style. Alongside her work with the BBC, she also hosts live events, red carpets, and club nights across Birmingham and the Midlands.
A proud Black Country native, Lauren brings humour, heart and high energy both on and off air. Whether she’s behind the mic, on stage, or on the dancefloor, she’s always connecting with audiences — and always having a great time.
Owain Tudur Jones is a TV and Radio presenter, sports pundit and former professional National Welsh Footballer. He is the lead anchor on the daily S4C/BBC iPlayer Welsh language magazine evening show, Heno. He is also a regular football pundit for BBC Radio Wales & Cymru as well as for Sgorio on S4C covering Wales National football teams domestic and major tournaments. Owain is also a co-commentator for the UEFA Conference League for TNT Sport.
As a former Professional Footballer Owain played for many clubs, including Swansea City, Norwich City & Brentford, as well as representing the Wales National Team over a ten year career before injury cut his playing career short.
After retirement, Owain stepped into the media industry with ease, in both English and Welsh languages covering football matches on both Television and Radio on BBC and S4C in Wales.
In 2017 he started to present and produce The Longman’s Football World Podcast lasting 64 episodes before stepping into the Entertainment world appearing on many of Wales’ favourite tv shows such as Welsh language learners show ‘Iaith ar Daith’ with former Wales Football Manager Chris Coleman in 2021, and hosting Dathlu Dewrder 2020-23 (Welsh version of Pride of Britain Awards) plus a number of acting roles (playing himself) on a couple of S4C’s Comedy drama’s!
When Owain is not in the studio or live on location he’s also a keen and passionate golfer.
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.
Chelsey Ward is a Radio Presenter and a host.
Currently, Chelsey co-presents the daily drive time show on BBC Local Radio across the Yorkshire region.
She’s featured on BBC Radio 1, as part of the Christmas take over and since then, was invited back to present Early Fridays.
Her passion for radio began in her living room, where she would create fake radio shows for her mum to listen to. Her strong-willed nature has led her to seek opportunities and create a career in broadcasting.
As soon as she could get herself behind a mic, she began presenting on her local hospital radio station in Worksop (up north) at the age of just 16. Chelsey is known for her high energy and humour. She thrives when building a connection with the audience as she understands the power of radio.
Happiest with mic in hand, she strives to leave her audience with a lasting smile. Chelsey has been annually invited to host events for large industry bodies. As a young woman with a working-class background, she is aware of how important representation is in big spaces.
Chelsey is never afraid to stand out and be different, and usually you’ll hear her before you see her.
Outside the studio, she’s probably struggling to pitch up a tent whilst camping or dancing at a festival. Chelsey has a love for adventure and apparently will try anything at least once.
Chris Howard is a radio and digital presenter based in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Most recently Chris presented Friday Early Breakfast on BBC Radio 1 during February 2024 plus a run of Radio 1 Anthems over the Christmas 2023.
Chris was selected Winner of Demo Factor 2023 impressing a panel of judges (including heads of both Radio 1 and Absolute Radio plus presenters from Heart and Times Radio) at the National Student Radio Association Conference (SRACon).
While studying at Sunderland University Chris joined Spark, the community radio station presenting a variety of output from Sport coverage to specialist music shows. While Chris was the host of the Breakfast Show he helped Spark pick up Best Station at the 2022 Student Radio Awards, the first time in the stations history.
Conor is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 1, and has spent the last 18 months covering Radio 1 weekend breakfast, Early Breakfast and taking the reins of the Mid-morning show over Christmas.
His radio journey started on community radio back in 2017 where all he wanted to do was play the music he loved and talk about popstars being ridiculous.
This led on to him joining FunKids where he brings his brand of fun and joy to kids (and adults) across the UK since 2019, working his way from a weekend slot to now, hosting weekday evenings.
In 2018 Conor began presenting mid-mornings on Radio Essex – where his tongue in cheek demeanour, love for music and popstar nonsense brought him a dedicated and growing band of listeners.
The pandemic saw Conor launch a comedy fact podcast called Baffled – which has charted in the in the UK Top 20 & US Top 40 – this has saw the likes of Paul Chowdry and Yvette Fielding drop by for a chat.
Conor feels equally at home in the studio as he does being out and about covering festivals such as Creamfields, CBBC’s Summer Social and the Brit Awards – where he gets to interview celebrities and musicians.
Hailing from Hornchurch, Conor is a typical Essex lad, and outside radio enjoys, Gigs, fashion and a trip to his local for a pint.
Rob Howard is an multi award winning presenter, who can currently be heard on the Heart Network weekend breakfast show. He has worked for many radio stations including 10 years at Capital where he presented almost every show including breakfast!
Rob has hosted many events including the National Student Radio Awards at London O2 Indigo and worked many red carpets including the Mobo’s and the Brits. He has also interviewed countless stars including Stormzy, Ed Sheeran and his interview with Steve Carell went viral gaining over 6 million views. Rob can also DJ and has opened for Olly Murs and JLS on their UK stadium tours.
Rob also has a large following on tiktok with over 335,000 followers, amassing over 52 million total views and 9 million total likes.
Outside of work Rob is a Dad as well as a Tottenham Hotspur season ticket holder
Emil presented Friday Early Breakfast plus cover BBC Radio 1 throughout July 2022 and has since covered for Matt and Mollie plus the Official Chart for Radio 1. He is also a regular cover presenter on Absolute Radio. Before this he presented Heart North East Drivetime.
Growing up in the North East, Emil first caught the radio bug while studying at University, where he produced and hosted shows at Newcastle Student Radio, going on to help organise the successful 2014 SRA Conference bid.
During his time at University, Emil volunteered at hospital station Radio Tyneside, working on their Breakfast show for 2 years despite being one of their youngest presenters. He was nominated for Best Male Presenter at the HBA Awards.
In early 2015 Emil moved to Stoke-on-Trent to present overnights on the old UTV/Wireless Local Network covering 9 stations including Signal 1, Pulse 1 and The Wave. Within eighteen months, he moved through the ranks to present the weekday evening shows, alongside hosting events for the station and presenting backstage interviews, at Total Access Live 2016.
After 2 years in Staffordshire, Emil returned to the North East for a brief spell on Star Radio Drive, in his home County, Durham, before moving to Heart North East as their weekend presenter. He was their Saturday breakfast presenter for 18 months.
In June 2019, Emil took over Heart North East’s Drivetime show, becoming the youngest presenter in the Heart regional slot. In no time at all and without hesitation, he jumped out of a plane for Heart’s Big Sky Dive, helping raise money for Global’s Make Some Noise. He has been host for several live events including Cancer Research UK’s Race For Life.
Outside the world of Radio, Emil is a huge fan of his beloved Newcastle United and has been involved in fan media since 2018. He is part of the “True Faith” Fanzine & Podcast and is the face of their popular Fan Cam videos on YouTube. He has been interviewed, regularly, on Sky Sports News and BBC Sport, representing the group, offering insight and opinion.
More recently, Emil’s enthusiasm, communication and presenting skills have provided a route into the team at WhatCulture. He now provides content on movies and TV Shows such as Marvel, Star Wars and Doctor Who.
With a wide and diverse knowledge of music, Emil will happily challenge all takers to a game of, “Guess the intro”! He has a passion for entertaining and gives every challenge full commitment.