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SARAH BRETT

Sarah Brett is a presenter and journalist on BBC Radio Foyle and BBC Radio Ulster. Since 2010 Sarah has presented the Breakfast programme with Enda McCla erty on BBC Radio Foyle every weekday morning from 7am-9am. This year Sarah is also presenting BBC Radio Foyle’s daily programme Pure Culture, celebrating culture in the north west in 2013.

Sarah worked as a journalist at the Belfast Telegraph for eight years and joined BBC Northern Ireland in 2004, working as a reporter for BBC Radio Foyle. Prior to presenting the Breakfast programme, Sarah presented her opt-out programme Sarah Brett on the station from 2008-2010. Sarah also regularly guest presents on Good Morning Ulster, Talkback and Evening Extra on BBC Radio Ulster. She grew up in Donegal and London and now lives in Derry.

STEPHEN MCCAULEY

Stephen McCauley was born and raised in Derry and is a presenter/producer on BBC Northern Ireland. He is the host of ‘Electric Mainline’ on BBC Radio Foyle and ‘Stephen McCauley’ on BBC Radio Ulster. A passionate and devoted life-long music fan, Stephen thrives o the constant search for music.

After nishing a degree in English at Queen’s University, Belfast, Stephen returned to Derry and started a summer job to help fund his band. The band folded but the summer job endured. Eight mind-blowingly boring years later, he walked out and pitched a radio programme to his local BBC station, BBC Radio Foyle. The show, ‘Electric Mainline’, was given a renewable two-month contract and, almost eight years later, has become an integral catalyst within Northern Irish music. On a typical programme, the listener is presented with Stephen’s tireless search for a bold and contrasting mix of local and international hard-core punk, contemporary classical, electronica, indie and experimental acoustic, all delivered with the enthusiasm and joy of his discoveries.

The Friday night ‘Stephen McCauley’ show on BBC Radio Ulster delivers an exploratory and cinematic mix of contemporary classical, electronica, hip-hop and experimental indie. In February of this year, Stephen made his debut on BBC Radio 6 Music with a week-long series of programmes.

Stephen is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of Void Gallery in Derry.

MARK PATTERSON

Mark Patterson presents ‘Lunchtime with Mark Patterson’, weekdays on BBC Radio Foyle. A Lurgan native who has lived in Derry for nearly 20 years, Mark has featured on Radio 4’s ‘Derry Diary’ many times in the past year and can often be heard presenting various programmes on Radio Ulster.

He has just secured his rst full documentary commission for BBC Radio 4. A passionate surfer and gardener, Mark’s love of music is as broad as it is long: ‘From Tallis to Alison Krauss to Moderat, I really don’t care what the label says: great music is great music’.

MARIE-LOUISE MUIR

Marie-Louise Muir is a respected arts journalist and broadcaster, and is one of BBC Radio Ulster’s best known voices. She began her career in BBC Radio Foyle in the mid-1990s presenting magazine shows, before becoming the anchor of BBC Radio Ulster’s weekly arts magazine show ‘Arts Extra’ in 2004.

As well as radio work, she also works on television and is the presenter of BBC 2 Northern Ireland’s arts magazine programme, ‘The Arts Show’. She has also made a series of ‘In Conversations’ with leading Northern Irish actors, including James Nesbitt, Adrian Dunbar and Bronagh Gallagher, with future episodes planned for later in 2013. Marie-Louise broadcasts regularly from the UK City of Culture 2013 Derry~Londonderry and is currently making several documentaries for BBC Radio 4.

As well as being a skilled broadcaster, Marie-Louise worked for six years as a television assistant producer/director. She worked on a range of programmes for BBC Northern Ireland within factual and entertainment genres. She regularly chairs arts and cultural debates, comperes live events, conducts on-stage interviews in front of a live audience, and chairs panel discussions and audience question and answer sessions.

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