The 6 Music presenter on Schitt’s Creek, Douglas Stuart’s extraordinary Shuggie Bain and the canal-side pub he longs to visit
Born in Leigh, Greater Manchester, in 1972, radio DJ and presenter Shaun Keaveny began his career at XFM and in 2007 joined 6 Music, where he hosted the breakfast show for more than a decade, before moving to afternoons in 2018. He has presented festival coverage from Latitude and the Isle of Wight for Sky Arts, appeared on BBC One’s Stand Up for Comic Relief and, in 2010, published his first book, R2D2 Lives in Preston. On 10 September he will be leaving 6 Music; until then, he is on each weekday from 1pm-4pm and will be on BBC Radio 2 on 28 August and 25 September, 6-8pm. He lives in London with his wife and three children.