Shaun Keaveny


Shaun William Keaveny is a British broadcaster who presents the afternoon show on digital radio station BBC Radio 6 Music.

Education and early life

Keaveny grew up on the Higher Folds housing estate in Leigh, Greater Manchester. He attended St Mary's Catholic High School, Astley and then Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds.

Career

Keaveny joined the BBC and presented the weekday afternoon show and the Friday breakfast show on XFM London until 2006.
Keaveny joined BBC Radio 6 Music in 2007 and presented its late evening show until April 2007. He began presenting the BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show on 2 April 2007. He also substitutes for a range of presenters on BBC Radio 2. The show was originally presented by Phill Jupitus, who had hosted the show since the station's inception in March 2002. Keaveny's breakfast show included features such as listeners' earworms Middle Aged Shout-Outs, Small Claims Court and Keaveny's Believe It or Not. The show had regular music news updates from presenter Matt Everitt and Georgie Rogers. Professor Brian Cox was a regular contributor to the show.
Keaveny's first book, R2D2 lives in Preston was published in November 2010. It is a compilation of little known facts relating to various towns throughout the United Kingdom, advised by listeners to his radio show in a feature entitled Toast the Nation.
On 16 February 2013, Keaveny took part in the fifth series of Let's Dance for Comic Relief as member of Destiny's Dad alongside fellow stand up comedians Hal Cruttenden and Mark Dolan.
It was announced in August 2018 that Keaveny would move from his weekdays BBC 6 Music breakfast show, to the Radcliffe and Maconie weekdays afternoon slot in January 2019. Keaveny hosted his final Breakfast Show live from the Maida Vale Studios on 14 December 2018 as part of the BBC 6 Music All Day Christmas Party.

Personal life

, he is a single parent to two sons.