Lauren Laverne To Take Over BBC 6 Music's Breakfast Show
The alternative music station is shaking up its schedule in January 2019.
Lauren Laverne is set to take over as the presenter of BBC Radio 6 Music’s weekday breakfast show, replacing Shaun Keaveny after more than a decade, in the indie music station’s biggest schedule shake-up in years.
40 year old Laverne, formerly of Britpop-era band Kenickie, currently presents 6 Music’s weekday mid-morning show from 10am to 1pm, as well as Late Night Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 as well as working as an anchor for the BBC’s annual coverage of Glastonbury Festival.
She’s one of the most popular presenters on the station, with her average 1.06 million daily listeners only just behind Keaveny’s average of 1.07 million. Now, however, she’ll be taking his place on the breakfast show from January 2019, with her show starting half an hour later at 7:30am daily.
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