Darryl Morris (presenter)

Darryl Morris (born 7 September 1990) is an English radio broadcaster. He currently hosts the weekend late show on national speech radio station Times Radio.[1]

Prior to joining Times Radio, he hosted the Early Breakfast show on sister station talkRADIO and his own show on TV network talkTV.[2]

Morris began on school radio before being signed to present BBC World Service series Generation Next. He had brief stints at Manchester-based radio station Key 103 and digital station The Hits Radio, as well as working for BBC Radio Manchester as a researcher. [3]

In 2008, Morris appeared in Chicago Town Pizza television adverts.[3]

In 2009, he joined Global Radio to work across the now rebranded Capital Manchester, formerly Galaxy Manchester, and XFM Manchester. He also presented 12-4pm weekdays on 1458 Gold Radio.

On 24 June 2012 he returned to Bauer Radio (Key 103, Rock FM and The Hits Radio).[4]

He hosted Darryl Morris in the Morning, the breakfast show on The Hits and Bauer City 3 from 2013[5] until August 2015. He also hosted a Saturday talk show on Liverpool's Radio City Talk.

He became presenter of Bauer Media Group's Evening Show in July 2016, broadcasting on 9 different radio stations including Key 103, Radio City and Metro Radio.[6] He also hosted the Breakfast Show on Rock FM.[7]

In 2019, Morris moved into speech radio and joined talkRADIO to host the overnight show before moving to Early Breakfast.[8]

In 2021, he produced and presented a documentary about manipulative web design, Dark Patterns, for BBC World Service. [9]

He has had articles in Grazia, The Guardian and HuffPost[10] and a weekly column in the Lancashire Evening Post. He can occationally be seen as a contributor on BBC News, Sky News and Good Morning Britain.

Morris lives in Manchester and is a season-ticket holder for Bolton Wanderers Football Club.[11]