ABOUT JON HOLMES
Jon is a Bafta and Radio Academy Award winning writer, presenter, producer/director.
He's the creator of the multi-award-winning satire The Skewer for the BBC, both on radio and now a short film.
He’s hosted his own shows on BBC Radios 1, 2, 4, 5Live and BBC 6 Music, written for the likes of Harry Hill, Graham Norton and Stephen Fry, thrown week-mocking jokes at Mock The Week, helped to develop the CBBC hit Horrible Histories from its journey from book to screen, (along with co-writing the first 5 series) and worked alongside Armando Iannucci on both radio and TV.
Also on TV, Jon hosted Channel 4’s 11 O’clock Show (after the other bloke left), occasionally crops up on things like Newsnight, and even did some of what could loosely be termed 'acting' in UKTVs Crackanory and Channel 4’s controversial drama Ukip: The First 100 Days.
He created the BBC Radio 4 series Listen Against, co-created the multi-award winning Dead Ringers, and was for a long time the short one from off of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show. He also regularly hosts the BBC Radio 4 Extra Comedy Club.
Alongside all this, he hosted the legendary Xfm Breakfast Show in London for 3 years (where he was twice nominated for Presenter of the Year), and then took over the afternoon show on talkRADIO from launch up until it went frothing mad, at which point he left.
Jon is the author of 4 books, the latest ‘A Portrait Of An Idiot As A Young Man' was published in Paperback by Orion in 2017.
He is also an award-winning freelance travel writer, most regularly for the Sunday Times for whom he travels all over the world to look at it and write about it. His radio documentary “Saving Mountain Gorillas recorded in the jungle on the Rwandan / Congolese border earned him a ‘Best Broadcast’ nomination at the Travel Media Awards, and he has also been Highly Commended Travel Writer of the Year by the British Guild of Travel Writers.
Once, he had to get into a four poster bed with the late actor Stratford Johns in order to wire him up to a car battery. Long story.
He is the CEO of award-winning audio and content production company unusual.
