Kerry McLean

Kerry McLean, born in Ballymoney in 1975, is a broadcaster with BBC Radio Ulster.[1] She was educated at Dalriada School, Ballymoney, La Sainte Union, Southampton, and University College, London, where she studied French, Education and English Literature.

She joined the BBC in 1993 and over the next six years worked in the following: news and current affairs in Belfast on Good Morning Ulster; in Glasgow on Good Morning Scotland; in London on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4; and later for the Ukrainian and then Education sections of the BBC World Service. Her broadcasting career includes early stints as a traffic and travel reporter, presenting the English/French bilingual output for West Africa for the BBC World Service and, more recently, Weekend Extra for BBC Radio Ulster. Highlights to date in her career include interviewing Jeremy Paxman, Mitchell and Webb, Amanda Holden, Sir Michael Palin, and her teenage hero, David Bowie.

From 2014 until 2019, Kerry had an afternoon slot, 15:00 - 17:00, Monday - Thursday, just after Hugo Duncan, on BBC Radio Ulster. Her show had replaced The Alan Simpson Show in 2014. Since 2019, she has presented a show at the weekends on BBC Radio Ulster.

References
  1. "Weekend Extra". BBC. Retrieved 10 March 2011.


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