Leona Graham

Leona Graham has been working in the radio and voiceover industry for many years presenting radio programmes, voicing station idents and using her voice talent on television and radio commercials.

Early Days

Leona’s radio career started at W963 – University Radio Warwick in 1989 where she presented the ‘Thursday Night Rock Show’ and a nightly news/magazine programme called ‘Weekday Warwick’. After Uni in 1993 she spent some time on community radio in Nottingham.

Her break came in 1995 when she helped write the winning application for Choice FM in Birmingham, where she became the overnight DJ. She made the move to London to become the DJ for Radio Top Shop, known then as FTV and landed a major voice over job voicing Channel 4′s ‘Passengers’.

Local Radio

A year later, she moved to Portsmouth to present Early Breakfast and co-host The Breakfast Show on 103.2 Power FM. In 1997 she moved away from co-hosting to take the reigns at Drivetime on 96.4 The Eagle in Guildford. She also became the female voice of Capital Radio London at this time.

Leona went on to become the UK’s first female breakfast anchors, launching Surf 107.2 in Brighton in 1998. Digital Radio launched in 1999 and Leona wanted to be involved moving to Core Radio in 1999.

National Radio

At the end of the 90′s Leona’s voice over career had taken off. She was the voice of BBC 5 Live, BBC Radio 1, the GWR Group and The Box TV.

In early 2000 her radio career caught up too when she joined to Virgin Radio (renamed Absolute Radio in 2008). She gave up the radio voice overs elsewhere to become exclusive to Virgin Radio. From 2001-2010 she became the female voice of Virgin/Absolute as well as being a DJ. She remains at the station as one of the most popular DJ’s. Her TV voice overs continued becoming the main voice of E4 for 2 years, and one of the prominent voices at ITV1 promos, BBC TV promos and Sky1 amongst others.

Today

Leona is currently hosting afternoons on Absolute Radio 1-5pm. Plus she is on 2 of their digital stations where she presents daily shows for Absolute 80s and Absolute Classic Rock.

Here she interviews many rock legends including Brian Johnson and Slash. Absolute Classic Rock, (formerly Virgin Radio Classic Rock) launched in 2003 where Leona was the very first presenter. She presents a daily programme on the station from 10am-1pm Monday to Fridays, plus Sundays 9am-12pm. In January 2010 Leona was part of another new station, Absolute 80s on DAB all over the UK. Leona hosts evenings 5-8pm and Saturdays 3-5pm.

At the moment, Leona’s voice overs can be heard on Virgin Media TV doing many movie trailers, and is also one of the voices on the Canadian station 102.3 Now Radio, in Edmonton.

Leona has a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Drama, and is a qualified school teacher. She has a family and lives in Wimbledon. Leona has a sideline in property development, being landlady of several properties. She is a keen surfer and enjoys sea-kayaking as well.