Darryl Morris is an ARIA award winning radio broadcaster, writer and northerner.

He currently hosts the weekend evening show on national speech station Times Radio. He can also be heard across the schedule covering for Breakfast, Drive and the weekday evening show.

Before joining Times Radio he hosted the weekend early breakfast show on national speech station talkTV.

He can regularly be seen as a contributor across Good Morning Britain, Sky News the BBC and Vine on 5.

Darryl’s radio career started as all great journeys do, on Bolton Market – playing songs and chatting to the dead fish on Bolton Market Radio – and Darryl’s Grandma, who would spend her Saturday perched under one of the speakers in the market hall.

Time spent as a producer for the BBC World Service and XFM were quickly followed by an on air break at BBC Radio Manchester, hosting their evening show. Successful stints at Galaxy FM, XFM and Key 103 followed and in 2013, Darryl become the new host of Darryl Morris in the Morning on The Hits Radio. The breakfast show made its mark – at one point beating BBC 1Xtra in the ratings – and created stand out content that was regularly featured in The Sun, The Mirror, the Daily Mail and heat Magazine, earning him a Bauer award nomination in 2015 for Breakfast Show of the Year.

It was during this time that Darryl starting cutting his teeth for speech radio, with a run of programmes on Liverpool’s Radio City Talk.

In 2016, Darryl began hosting Bauer Media’s syndicated Evening Show, a network of 12 heritage radio stations across the country, bringing his warmth and wit to a massive new audience. The show broke new music and artists, including Lewis Capaldi, Anne Marie and Khalid -as well as Darryl getting under the skin of some of the biggest stars in the world, including Ed Sheehan, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Richard Branson, Sienna Miller, Selena Gomez, Bryan Cranston and P!nk.

In May 2018, Darryl anchored Bauer Media’s coverage and reaction of the Manchester Arena bomb – hosting a special show through the night after the tragic event and anchoring shows live from the iconic vigil, the One Love Manchester Concert and the reopening of the Manchester Arena. The coverage went on to win two ARIA awards. Darryl was commended for his versatility, in being able to drive light content and star guests as well as take on delicate stories and breaking news events, occasionally in the same show.

In 2018, Darryl made his first strides into speech radio, joining talkRADIO to cover shows across the schedule and, in 2019, joined the line up to host the weekday overnight show, Monday to Friday, becoming one of the youngest speech radio hosts, at the age of 29. The show was epitomised by Darryl’s warmth and ability to empathise – using his compassion to tease great stories from callers and guests alike, including former drug addicts, prostitutes, abuse victims, astronauts, a civil rights campaigner and at least one psychopath. After a hugely successful run, breaking big stories and increasing the audience by 115% year-on-year, Darryl moved up to the weekend early breakfast show in July 2020.

In February 2020, Darryl hosted his first documentary commission for the BBC, alongside Made in Manchester Productions. It was an episode of the BBC’s Witness History series, charting the famous image of the Earth taken by Voyager One; the Pale Blue Dot.

Darryl also scratches his itch for his beloved Bolton Wanderers and hosts the weekly Wanderer podcast for BBC Sport.

Other TV Credits include appearances on Good Morning Britain, Victoria Derbyshire, Sky News, BBC News, 4Music and Newsround.

He has also written for various outlets, including the guardian, Grazia, heat, The Huffington Post and he has a weekly column in his native northern newspaper The Lancashire Evening Post.

Darryl fills the rest of his time running his small content production company, Into the Hive, and is highly regarded as a live host for conferences and book launches.

He lives in Manchester with his girlfriend Michaela and their two cats, Lily and Emmi.

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