The only 6 Music presenter to have been in a punk band with Carol Vorderman, Liz started her career as a pop columnist for the Yorkshire Post. That led to an invitation to present a weekly programme on Radio Aire.

She defected to BBC Radio Leeds and then to Radio 1 where her pop magazine programme Backchat won her a Sony award. Also at Radio 1 she hosted the Evening Show and was paired with Bruno Brookes on the Weekend Breakfast Show.

Liz moved to Radio 5 to present her own daily phone-in until 1994 when she moved to the newly-launched 5 Live's Saturday morning show.

She moved to Northamptonshire in 1992 and helped to double the audience of the local BBC station. She now presents the breakfast show on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire (Mon-Fri 7am-10am).

First gig?
Rod Stewart in 1973. He was really late coming on and when he did there was a problem with the sound, but it didn't matter - I thought he was fab!

First record you ever bought?
Status Quo's Paper Plane. Our parents disapproved of pop music so we had to wait until they went out to play it. 

A record that makes you cry?
REM's Everybody Hurts. I had Automatic For The People on in the car when I got a call to rush to hospital as my Grandma was about to go. I could hardly drive for tears especially as Stipe kept repeating: "Hold on, Hold On, Hold On". I still can't listen to it.

A record which sounds better in the dark?
Not total darkness ... firelight's good. Anyway  Van Morrison's Moondance or  Free's Heartbreaker  or  Pink Floyd's Echoes. They're all great for shagging .

Soundtrack when you met your soul-mate?
I got off with the father of my children at a  Motorhead gig. Lemmy was singing Ace Of Spades as we kissed for the first time - romantic or what?