Johanne Whiley (born July 4, 1965 in Northampton) is an English radio disc jockey on BBC Radio 1, and a television presenter. She is married to Steve Morton and has 3 children. is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Northampton is a large market town and a local government district in the English East Midlands region. ... Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... BBC Radio 1 (commonly referred to as just Radio 1) is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music and speech and is aimed primarily at the 14-29[1] age group. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Northampton is a large market town and a local government district in the English East Midlands region. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... BBC Radio 1 (commonly referred to as just Radio 1) is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music and speech and is aimed primarily at the 14-29[1] age group. ... A television presenter is a British term for a person who introduces or hosts television programmes. ...

Biography

Whiley was born to an electrician father and a postmistress mother. She attended Campion School near Northampton and then studied applied languages at Brighton Polytechnic – "because it was the only course I could get on to anywhere. I didn’t have a clue what I wanted to do". Campion School, Bugbrooke, is located in a village close to Northampton, UK. It has been a Language College since September 1997. ... The University of Brighton (formerly Brighton Polytechnic until its re-designation in 1992) is a multi-site university based in the city of Brighton & Hove (England). ...

Early career

In her final year and still unsure of what she wanted to do, a conversation with a lecturer lead to a job with BBC Radio Sussex on a show called Turn It Up. It allowed anyone to get on the radio, and also required Whiley to attend gigs and interview the musicians. BBC Southern Counties Radio is the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Surrey and Sussex. ...

After a year she left for City University, London for a one year course on radio journalism. After writing many letters, she got a job as a researcher on WPFM, a BBC Radio 4 youth culture and music show. When the presenters Terry Christian and Gary Crowley left, she took over, gaining her first presenting role. She then moved into television, firstly at British Satellite Broadcasting where she produced and presented the indie show, and then at Channel 4 where she worked as a resercher on The Word, with her friend Zoe Ball. City University London is a British university based at Northampton Square in Clerkenwell, London (). Its official name is The City University. ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Terry Christian (born 8 May 1963) is a British radio and former TV presenter. ... BSB logo British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) was a company set up in 1986 to provide direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the British television station. ... The Word may mean: The Word (television) The Word (song) by The Beatles The Wørd, a recurring segument on Stephen Colberts The Colbert Report The Word (magazine) The Bible Ordet (aka The Word), the 1955 Danish film The Word (band) The Word & the Void This is a disambiguation... Categories: People stubs | 1970 births | British television presenters ...

Whiley moving on to BBC Radio 1 from September 1993 until February 1997 (the heydays of Britpop - Blur and Oasis), she hosted a weekday evening show called The Evening Session with Steve Lamacq from 7 until 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday. The show was oriented towards less-mainstream, non-dance music. Lamacq still has an evening show each Monday on Radio 1, with a similar content, and has a weekday afternoon show on 6 Music, a digital radio channel. In addition to The Evening Session, in Late 1995 she presented her own show on Saturday afternoon from 2.30-5pm. BBC Radio 1 (commonly referred to as just Radio 1) is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music and speech and is aimed primarily at the 14-29[1] age group. ... Britpop was a mid-1990s British alternative rock genre and movement. ... Blur are an English rock band formed in Colchester in 1989. ... Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991, led by lead guitarist and primary songwriter Noel Gallagher and his younger brother, lead vocalist and songwriter Liam Gallagher. ... Steve Lamacq (born 16 October 1965), sometimes known by his nicknames Lammo (given to him by John Peel) or The Cat (due to his ability as a goalkeeper), is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio stations Radio 1, BBC 6 Music and now BBC Radio 2... BBC 6 Music is one of the BBCs newest radio stations, launched on March 11, 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It is only available via digital media - DAB radio, the Internet and the various forms of digital television. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...

The Jo Whiley Show

From February 1997, she had a weekday show from 12 to 2 p.m., named The Jo Whiley Show and later The Lunchtime Social. This included elements of the evening show, such as tour dates and occasional live 'sessions' at Maida Vale while working within the restrictions of Radio 1's daytime schedule. For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Maida Vale is a road in north-west London, and a district surrounding it. ...

When Simon Mayo left Radio 1 for Radio Five Live in February 2001, Whiley's show was moved two hours earlier to the time it is today (from 10 a.m. to 12.45 p.m.). Simon Mayo (born 21st September 1958 in Southgate, London) is one of the most recognised and respected voices of radio in the UK, currently presenting a daily afternoon programme on BBC Radio Five Live. ... BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ...

The show includes an 'entertainment news' section, now at noon, which is currently read by Natalie Jamieson. News updates also appear at 10.30 and 11.30. Newsbeat's lunchtime programme follows the end of the show at 12.45. Natalie Jamieson is a showbiz reporter who currently presents BBC Radio 1s Early Breakfasts on Fridays with James King. ...

There have been numerous features on the show. Current features are marked in bold type:

• Changing Tracks - Daily feature - This is when a listener emails in and asks for a song that reminds them of a time in their life when music changed everything, particularly if that had had a great experience or whether a song provided some kind of comfort after a traumatic time.

• Live Lounge - The Live Lounge is where invited artists come into the studio to perform music from their new album/single as well as performing a cover version of a song they particularly admire, and give their own take on it. Selected guests from 2006 include, Goldfrapp who performed "Fly Me Away" and the Ordinary Boys' "Boys Will Be Boys" and Nelly Furtado who sang "Maneater" and covered Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". This is a popular feature of the show and a compilation album of such covered music has been released.
• In June of 2007 Leeds group The Bedroom Orchestra created a hoax Live Lounge session under the name 'Live From The Lounge' by using cleverly edited samples from over 17 Live Lounge sessions combined with overdubbed audio and live musical performances.

• Pet Sound - Daily feature - This is a song that has been considered by Jo to be something that we need to hear. It usually has not been released or is due to be released in due time. This song is played once on Jo's show for the week and it changes every week.

• Marilyn Manson was never in The Wonder Years - This happens infrequently. Basically if there is a question that you do not know the answer to and would like answered, then this is the place to find out. The title comes from the urban legend that Marilyn Manson was a cast member for the series The Wonder Years, when actually he wasn't.

• I Have Never... - An occasional feature where Jo embarks on something she has never done in her life and listeners are also challenged to the same thing, examples have included not watching television for a whole week and trying a sport for the very first time.

• What Rocked? What Sucked? - This feature involves listeners to e-mail or text in to tell her and the listening audience what went well and what didn't. Jo sometimes offers her own view from time to time. This feature takes place on a Friday allowing listeners to reflect upon the good and bad points of the week that has passed.

• 7 Song Shuffle - Daily feature - A mishmash of 7 different songs is played to a listener via telephone and they are then given around 45 seconds to name the artist and song title. The number of correct answers they get corresponds to the number of albums they can receive as prizes. The actual prize is vouchers for popular music store HMV, which come in £10 denominations to represent the amount of albums. If not all 7 songs are guessed correctly then other listeners can claim them by texting or emailing the missing answers. It is more difficult than it appears, as the contestants have to listen to the jumbled tracks on the telephone rather than the radio, making the songs harder to differentiate. To date only 4 people have correctly answered all 7 songs correctly. After July 17, 2007 the game became 'just for fun' with listeners playing along at home and no prizes on offer due to the BBC's suspension of all telephone competitions.

• We Love Mondays - Weekly feature - At the start of each week, Jo runs through various reasons to be happy on a Monday morning, such as what is showing at the cinema, what music albums and singles are being released and what is coming up on television and radio.

• Ask the Experts - Weekly feature - For this feature, listeners can e-mail in their dilemmas or questions to a certain expert, whether it be about video games, gadgets or relationships for example. Tracey Cox is one of the experts, with her field being relationships.

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Television career

Whiley presents televised coverage of major music festivals, such as the Glastonbury Festival. She also narrated the BBC Three series, Little Angels. In October 2007 she became a judge on the T4 show MobileAct Unsigned which searches for a band trying to get a record deal. Her fellow Judges are Simon Gavin from A+M records, Alex James from Blur and then 4 guest Judges: Lily Allen, Calvin Harris, Mutya Buena and Just Jack. The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest[1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 3. ... Alex James (born Steven Alexander James, 21 November 1968, in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, England) is the bass player in the band Blur, and one of the members of Fat Les. ... Look up blur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born May 2, 1985) is a British singer-songwriter best known for songs such as Smile and LDN. She is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. ... Calvin Harris (born January 17, 1984), is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. ... Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena, (born 21 May 1985 in Kingsbury, London), known professionally as Mutya Buena, is an English singer and songwriter, who rose to fame as a member of the pop group Sugababes. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Personal life

Whiley married Virgin Records executive Steve Morton in 1992. The couple live in North London, and have three children India, Jude and Cassius. Morton calls Whiley Mr Magoo because she blunders through life. Virgin Records was a British recording label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... North London is that part of London which is north of the River Thames. ... Mr. ...

References

• Jo Whiley's BBC webpage. BBC.
• Streeter, Eve (October 2003). One Voice. The Insight: The Intelligent Guide to Brighton & Hove.
• Jo Wiley. TV.com.

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External links

• Jo's 'In Live Music We Trust' Radio 1 site
• An article on the end of the Evening Session
• Jo's MySpace Listing
• Jo Whiley's Perfect Playlist