BBC Radio 6 Music details new 2025 schedule
Nick Grimshaw will permanently take over Lauren Laverne’s breakfast show among a number of changes for the new year
BBC Radio 6 Music have detailed their new daytime schedule for 2025, including a new host for the breakfast show.
After breakfast show host Lauren Laverne took a break from the station last year to undergo cancer treatment, she was replaced by Nick Grimshaw, who will now host the show permanently.
Laverne, who had been in the breakfast show hot seat for six years, will take up a new mid-morning slot, keeping her popular Desert Island Disco and People’s Playlist segments. This change will come into force next month, with Nemone hosting the breakfast show for the rest of January.
Appearing on this morning’s (January 9) breakfast show to announce the news, Laverne said: “As listeners will know, I had a really tough 2024 and worried at times that I wouldn’t be able to return to the station I love so much. It has been a huge honour (and so much fun) to host the breakfast show for six wonderful years, but it is time to pass the baton on, and to set my alarm a little later.”
“During my recovery I learned all over again about the power of music, the people you surround yourself with and the emotional support and joy radio can provide. I’m so grateful to be able to get back to doing what I love and sharing those things with our brilliant listeners every day.”
Grimshaw said: “I’ve had the greatest four months covering for Lauren and I can’t wait to continue waking you up on 6 Music. I want to say thank you to the listeners who’ve made me feel so welcome over the past few months and to Lauren’s fantastic team who have been imperative in making me so happy on air.
“6 Music is a precious place, a station I love, I’m honestly honoured to be asked to work there and can’t wait to continue supplying the best new music from the world’s most interesting artists.”
Elsewhere, Mary-Anne Hobbs will take a sabbatical this year beginning in February, returning in the spring with a new show on the station. She said: “My agenda has been to change daytime radio at 6 Music. It was David Bowie who taught me that creative life is progression. Once the work is complete… stand at the edge of everything you know and ask a different question.”