Steve Allen (radio presenter)

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (July 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Stephen Allen (born 17 March 1954) is an English radio presenter. He has hosted the early morning breakfast show on LBC since 2000.

Radio career

Allen first worked as a nightclub disc jockey where he met Dale Winton^[1] and subsequently joined the United Biscuits Network, a radio station broadcasting to workers in the United Biscuits factories.^[2] His voice was heard in Scotland, Liverpool, Manchester and London.

UBN closed in 1979, and Allen joined LBC as presenter of the Night Extra programme. He then moved on to present The Night is Young on the station. When LBC was separated into two stations- 1152 AM and 97.3 FM, Allen presented the afternoon show for 'London Talkback Radio' (later known as LBC London News 1152) and Saturday Night Out. Allen has also worked for Blue Danube Radio in Vienna, a station sponsored by the United Nations.

Currently, Allen presents the early breakfast show on LBC between 4am and 7am from Monday to Friday. In addition to these shows, Allen pre-records another programme for LBC- Steve Allen In Conversation- this show has not been broadcast since the spring of 2020.

In 2006 and 2007, he embarked on a live tour visiting theatres around the London area. In 2009 and 2010, Allen continued his sell out 'audience with' stage shows at the Queen's Theatre in Hornchurch and at the Mermaid Theatre in Central London. He was supported by fellow LBC presenter Anthony Davis. In February 2011, he performed again at the Mermaid Theatre, supported by mind-reader Graham P Jolley.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, Allen released a book entitled So You Want to be a Celebrity?.

Style of radio show

Allen is the only presenter on LBC who does not take listeners' calls during his programmes, although he does read out texts and tweets. Each of his early breakfast shows involves discussion of stories from the day's newspapers, Allen's personal anecdotes, his gripes about daily life, and his often critical and derogatory comments about celebrities. ^[3]

TV experience

Allen was one of five presenters of 5's Company,^[4] a magazine programme broadcast on Channel 5 when it was launched in 1997.

Diabetes

He has been diagnosed as diabetic^[5] and has since promoted testing on and off air.

References

External links

• The Steve Allen Show website
• Steve Allen on LBC
• Steve Allen Twitter Feed