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Leanne Campbell joins BBC Radio Merseyside

Jonny HumphriesNorth West
News imageBBC Leanne Campbell, who has wavy blonde hair and is wearing a chunky knit red and white striped cardigan, sits in a swivel chair by a studio desk with a large presenter's microphone to her right. She is holding a pair of black earphones.BBC
Leanne Campbell left Hits Radio in 2025 after 22 years in commercial radio.

BBC Radio Merseyside has confirmed well-known radio presenter Leanne Campbell will be joining its line-up next month.

Leanne Campbell left Hits Radio - formerly Radio City - where she presented the Breakfast show last summer after 22 years in the commercial sector.

Hits Radio's owners, Bauer Media, had announced it was scrapping locally produced shows in favour of a nationally syndicated programme.

Campbell will present the Friday mid-morning show on Radio Merseyside with her first appearance set for 10 April between 10:00 and 14:00 GMT.

Current mid-morning presenter Tony Snell had decided to drop to four days a week.

Campbell said: "I love my audience. They've always supported me, and when you think about it, we've grown up together.

"We have partied together, we've settled down together, got married and had our kids together.

"Now we're older and wiser – allegedly – and we want to know what's going on in the world and share our opinions on it, which we can now do at BBC Radio Merseyside."

News imageLeanne Campbell, who has wavy blonde hair and wears a beige long-sleeved top with a BBC branded lanyard around her neck, smiles at the camera in front of a microphone.
Leanne Campbell said she saw herself as a "Scouser and a grafter"

Liverpool born Leanne Campbell, who won Merseyside Woman of the Year in 2025, said she was driven by a love of "the buzz" of broadcasting and an affinity to her listeners.

"I don't know where it comes from, I just work dead hard," she said.

"I'm a Scouser, so I'm a grafter, and I don't want anything I haven't earned."

She said she hoped she could show her audience that Radio Merseyside "is for everyone".

Snell said he had been "trying to get Leanne to join Radio Merseyside for years".

"Turns out the only way she'd come is if I gave her one of my shows," he said.

On his decision to drop a day on air, he said: "I love being on the radio, but if you can believe it, I love not being on the radio too.

"Taking Friday back for me is something I've been thinking about for a while, and it's the right time."

BBC Radio Merseyside executive editor, Ben Anderson, added: "Radio Merseyside is going from strength to strength – we're growing audiences and we're bringing the big national awards back home.

" I think Leanne will help us to grow even more quickly, and she absolutely deserves her place on our line-up. This has always been the home of Merseyside's best broadcasters, and Leanne undoubtedly fits the bill."

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