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Elizabeth Alker is a British journalist and broadcaster working for BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 3. [1][2][3]
She presents Classical Live and an experimental new music show called Unclassified[4] for BBC Radio 3[5][6][7]
Alker was born in Rochdale in 1982 to music teacher parents. She gained a BA (hons) in Communications & Politics and then an MA in English Literature at the University of Leeds.[8]
She joined the BBC in 2003 as a researcher, becoming a journalist and presenter for BBC 6 Music in 2006 and a regular presenter of various programmes on BBC Radio 3 in 2016. She has reported on arts and culture for Radio 4, Radio 2, 5Live and the World Service.
Alker is a Christian and lives with her husband in Hebden Bridge [9][10]
In 2025 Alker published a book with Faber & Faber titled 'Everything We Do Is Music'. The book is about the points of confluence between popular and classical music.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "BBC Radio 3's Elizabeth Alker on Rochdale accent distracting listeners". 22 June 2021.
- ^ Singh, Anita (6 February 2020). "Radio 3 boasts highest audience ratings in three years while Radio 1 plunges to record low". The Telegraph.
- ^ "On my radar: Elizabeth Alker's cultural highlights". 14 January 2023.
- ^ "Interview: Elizabeth Alker".
- ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified".
- ^ Fisher, Alice (15 May 2021). "On my radar: Richard Osman's cultural highlights". The Guardian.
- ^ O'Donovan, Gerard (11 May 2022). "How the residents of Ambridge might benefit from BBC Radio's mindfulness obsession". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Interview: Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3 presenter".
- ^ "Elizabeth Alker: My Yorkshire, from the Calderdale moors to the Hebden Bridge music scene". 3 July 2023.
- ^ https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2024/03/13/elizabeth-alker-on-fairness-foster-care-and-accent-stigma
- ^ Everything We do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop. Faber & Faber, Limited. 28 August 2025. ISBN 978-0-571-37017-7.