British radio presenter, actor, writer

Lliana Bird (born 17 August 1981), known professionally as Birdy, is a British radio presenter, writer, actor, and co-founder of charities Help Refugees (now known as Choose Love) and The Kindly Collective. She is currently a presenter on Radio X.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Radio
  • 1.2 Television
  • 1.3 Theatre, TV and Film
  • 1.4 Writing
• 2 Charity work
• 3 Personal life
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

Radio

Bird currently presents the Sunday evening show on Radio X, formerly known as Xfm, where she has worked since 2014. She has also previously contributed to Capital Radio, Virgin Radio, LBC and BBC Three Counties Radio. She is also a regular guest on LBC, BBC 5 Live and BBC London.

In 2010 she presented a series of radio do*entaries about independent record labels en*led "Independents Day". She presented on XFM from 2007 until 2015, when the station rebranded as Radio X. Bird was the final live presenter on Xfm, delivering the final live link and playing the song that the station began on, MC5'S 'Kick Out The Jams'

Bird presents a weekly podcast en*led Geek Chic's Weird Science which was selected as iTunes Best of 2014.

She also co-presents "Get It Off Your Breasts" alongside Emma Gannon, a female-focussed podcast featuring unfiltered roundtable discussions

Television

Bird has appeared on Sky News and BBC Breakfast as a guest commentator. She previously presented TFTV and XFM's online station, XFM TV. In 2014 she presented a conservation series about London Zoo. In 2016 she was a guest on BBC's Springwatch.

Theatre, TV and Film

Bird has also worked as an actress in various productions, including Fiddler on the Roof at The Lyric Theatre, Boom-bang-a-bang at the Etcetera Theatre, and The Christmas *-up at The *pit Theatre.

In 2009, Bird set up a theatrical production company called Bird & Be with Phoebe Barran. Their first production was a run of Orlando Wells' The Tin Horizon at Theatre 503, which received positive reviews from critics.

In 2013 she co-produced Orlando Wells' adaption of Patrick Hamilton's The Duke in Darkness, which ran from 16 April to 11 May at the Tabard Theatre.

Bird has appeared in several episodes of The Mighty Boosh, and in episodes of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy Series 1 and 2.

In 2018 Bird wrote and co-directed her first short film ‘Snapshots’ starring Paul Kaye and Mark Benton. It went on to win several awards.

Writing

Bird writes for The Huffington Post on a variety of social issues.

In 2016 she released a book, The Mice Who Sing for Sex (and other weird tales from the world of science) with Dr Jack from her Geek Chic's Weird Science podcast.

Charity work

Bird is the co-founder of Help Refugees (now known as Choose Love), a humanitarian organisation providing aid to refugees across Europe and beyond. Help Refugees was named as one of the NESTA New Radicals and won Liberty's "Jo Cox, More in Common" award. Bird was also named as one of Foreign Policy's "Top 100 Global Thinkers 2016".

In 2016, Bird hosted the London Peace Talks.

In 2017 Bird co-founded The Kindly Collective, which brings people together to fundraise and champion projects supporting women, children and creatures across the globe.

Personal life

Bird has lived with comedian Noel Fielding since about 2010. They live in Highgate, north London. Bird and Fielding have two children, a daughter born in 2018 and a second daughter born in August 2020.

References

External links

• Lliana Bird on Radio X
• Help Refugees official website