Presenters
Nick Briggs
Nick is an actor, writer, director, producer, composer and sound designer. He's also the voice of the Daleks, Cybermen and Judoon in Doctor Who.
He spends most of his time working on audio drama, but from time to time he manages to find an extra five minutes to be on screen (most recently, Lewis, Torchwood, Adulthood, 4,3,2,1) and on the stage (Sherlock Holmes).
The 7th Dimension
Joanna Pinnock
Joanna began her broadcasting career in local radio in Cambridge before going freelance in 1993 to become presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Natural History Programme.
Since then she's worked extensively as a presenter, producer and writer on TV and radio and regularly writes for children, mainly on wildlife and the environment. She joined Radio 7 on its launch at the end of 2002
Susan Rae
After starting professional life as a newspaper journalist in her native Dundee, Susan was working as a reporter for BBC Radio Aberdeen when she was invited to join the presentation team in London.
After three years there, she embarked on a broadcasting career which lurched along entirely due to serendipity. A stint on You and Yours was followed by some years of TV presentation.
Over the last few years, Susan has become a regular voice on many TV channels as a narrator of countless documentaries. One side effect of this is that she can bore for Scotland on virtually any topic - forensic medicine, dinosaurs, rare diseases and so much more. But she found herself missing the call of live radio, and started presenting for BBC World Service a couple of years ago.
From there, it was back to Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.
Alan Smith
Alan is a Scot by birth and his family moved to the Lake District when he was just two years old, so he considers himself to be a Cumbrian by adoption.
After a career working in business management, Alan took the plunge into broadcasting in 1989. His first job on air was reading BBC Radio Cumbria's famous Lamb Bank, which pairs orphaned lambs with ewes.
He moved on to present a live daily phone-in together with specialist music shows before coming to Broadcasting House, London, in 2002 where he is an announcer on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.
Jim Lee
Jim began his career on local radio in Coventry. He's one of the few announcers on 7 who can remember hearing the original transmissions of some of our classic comedies from the 60s and 70s!
Jim not only graces the Radio 7 airwaves, but can also be heard regularly on Radios 2 and 4 and the BBC World Service.
Rory Morrison
Rory Morrison studied English Language and Literature at Durham University before embarking on a career in broadcasting at Beacon Radio, an independent station in the West Midlands, as a travel reporter (perched on the back of a motorcycle!) and presenter.
He joined the BBC in 1990 to host the afternoon show at Radio Leeds and was also heard on BBC Radio York and on the breakfast show at BBC Radio Cleveland.
After leaving local radio he worked for a time for the British Forces Broadcasting Service before joining BBC Radio 4 as a continuity announcer. Over the years he has both presented and reported for From Our Own Correspondent, spent New Years Eve 1999 on standy-by in case the millenium bug threatened the BBC's output (it didn't!) and eventually joined the newsreading team, presenting the Six O'clock bulletin for major events such as the Queen Mother's funeral.
In 2004 he was diagnosed with a rare type of Lymphoma but, after several years of treatment, he is now in complete remission from the disease. A fund raising walk by his Radio 4 colleagues raised well over £20,000 for the Lymphoma Association.
Rory lives in St Albans with his wife Nikki (a reporter for BBC Look East) and their two children
Wes Butters
Wes was born in Salford on the very day that Margaret Thatcher came to power. With ambitions to become a movie director, he studied film and television at the city's university, but took a year out to pursue a job reading out traffic and travel on the radio, and never went back.
In 2002, he landed the coveted role as the 9th host of BBC Radio 1's prestigious Top 40 chart show. Since then Wes has guest-presented the 6 Music breakfast show and produced and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and recently joined BBC Radio Leeds presenting their mid morning programme.
He has modelled for GQ, Vogue and Company magazines, and was the man behind the 'Crazy Frog' record, recently voted the 25th worst song of the noughties.
In addition to broadcasting, Wes has been the author of two biographies; 'Kenneth Williams Unseen' and 'Whatshisname: The Life and Death of Charles Hawtrey', the number one pre-ordered biography on Amazon. Wes has a four-year old daughter Maisie.
Kathy Clugston
Kathy comes from Belfast and began her broadcasting career at BBC Northern Ireland as a TV announcer. A period of TV presenting followed on the newly launched BBC Choice (now BBC Three) but the amount of time she had to spend in hair and make-up far outweighed the time she was actually on-air, so she gave it all up to pursue a radio career at Radio Netherlands in Holland, where she was free to look a complete mess.
Having fallen in love with radio, she began moonlighting at the BBC World Service and after a few years flying back and forth moved to London full-time when Radio 4 took her on as an announcer. Apart from fulfilling a long-held dream to read the shipping forecast, working for Radio 4 has led to her making a guest appearance at the Proms, narrating Peter and the Wolf for the Kensington Chamber Orchestra, and regular appearances on the Scott Mills show on Radio 1.
While her Ulster tones have generally been well received by Radio 4 listeners, not everyone has been appreciative. She once received a poem from a man complaining that "Gordon Brown" should not rhyme with "Battle of the Boyne".
