Lauren Laverne has been up since 5:30am. She finished a three-hour radio show at 10:30am, and has been answering the phone to members of the public for four hours on behalf of a digital bank. Despite this, BBC 6 Music’s new Breakfast Show host still seems impressively chirpy at 5pm, with time still left to scan the never-ending cycle of Brexit-related news.
There was once a time when she was required to get political every week on TV. “On the Breakfast Show, we don’t really do politics. I mean, I work at the BBC, so you’ve got to be politically neutral,” she tells the New Statesman, “I saw Charlie [Brooker, creator of Black Mirror] recently, and we had a laugh about working together back then.” She’s referring to presenting 10 O’Clock Live, a weekly comedy news programme that ran from 2011 to 2013, alongside Brooker, Jimmy Carr and David Mitchell. The show was commissioned following the success of Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night, hosted by the same four presenters, in May 2010.
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