''Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp'' is a British national breakfast radio show on

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. The show is broadcast from 6am to 10am each weekday.''Capital Breakfast''
at capitalfm.com From 7 January 2012 an additional live networked edition was broadcast from 6am to 9am each Saturday. A national version of the programme began on 8 April 2019 forcing the local variations across the UK to be axed. Those local versions were Dino, Pete & Tyles ( Capital East Midlands), Jono & Emma ( Capital South Coast), Adam & JoJo ( Capital Yorkshire), Rob & Matilda ( Capital Birmingham), Matt & Polly (

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), Bodg, Matt & Hannah ( Capital North East), The Rob Ellis Show ( Capital Manchester), Des Clarke, Steven & Amy ( Capital Scotland), Ben Sheppard ( Capital North West and Wales), Adam, Gemma & Dylan ( Capital Liverpool) and Dave and Miranda ( Capital Brighton). Only Capital Cymru retained their own local shows.

Broadcast and production

As Capital London (channel listed as Capital FM) is simulcast on TV variants which are available on

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, Freeview,

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and

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, ''Capital Breakfast'' is available throughout the UK. This variant is produced at their studios in

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On air team

The longest running presenter was

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, who presented the show from 1987 to 2004. Tarrant won the Sony Radio Academy Awards, Breakfast Show Gold in 1995 for this show. Previous Breakfast Show presenters from 1973 were David Symonds,

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& Dave Cash, Everett on his own, Mike Smith and Graham Dene. In April 2004,

Johnny Vaughan Jonathan Randal Vaughan (born 16 July 1966) is an English television and radio presenter and a film critic. He was the main presenter of '' Capital Breakfast'' alongside Lisa Snowdon on 95.8 Capital FM between 2004 and 2011. Vaughan currently ...

replaced Tarrant, as the presenter of ''Capital Breakfast''. In 2008, he was joined by

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. Vaughan left the programme in November 2011 after being told that his contract was not being renewed, and was replaced with Dave Berry.Dave Berry to replace Johnny Vaughan on Capital breakfast show
John Plunkett, Guardian, 1 December 2011 In February 2011 it was reported the show remained London's most listened to commercial breakfast show with Capital London having more than one million listeners between 6am and 10am. In February 2016, following

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's departure, It was announced that George Shelley and Lilah Parsons would join Dave Berry as co-presenters. In February 2017, It was announced that Dave Berry to leave Capital to host his own show on Absolute Radio. In April 2017, Dave Berry left Capital. Following that it was announced that George Shelley and Lilah Parsons would leave Capital Breakfast, a Capital spokesperson said they’ll appear elsewhere on the schedule. On 18 April 2017, it was announced that

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would host the show alongside

Vick Hope Victoria Nwayawu Nwosu-Hope (born 25 September 1989) is a British TV and radio presenter, journalist and published author. Vick hosts three shows a week across BBC Radio 1 "Going Home with Vick and Jordan", "Life Hacks" and "Official Chart: F ...

, a new presenter. They started on 2 May 2017. A year later Sonny Jay joined the show full-time. On 24 February 2020, it was announced that Hope had left Capital Breakfast to focus on new TV opportunities. It was announced that presenter Siân Welby would replace Hope, starting 23 March 2020. In 2022, It was announced that Chris Stark would join the team. His first show was on October 10, 2022. On December 15, 2022, Sonny Jay announced that he would be leaving the show to present "The Capital Late Show” which was previously hosted by

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. He will start on January 3, 2023.

Lead presenter

(2017–present)

Co-starring

* Siân Welby (2020–present) * Chris Stark (2022–present)

Former notable presenters

Main presenters

(1974–1975) * Graham Dene (1975–1980, 1982–1987) * Mike Smith (1980–1982) *

(1987–2004) * Neil Fox deputised for Chris Tarrant (1988–2003) *

(2004–2011) * Rich Clarke (stand-in presenter, 2009) * Dave Berry (2012–2017) * Lilah Parsons (2016–2017) * George Shelley (2016–2017) *

(2017–2020) * Sonny Jay (2018–2022)

Co-presenters

* Caroline Feraday co-presenter with Neil Fox when deputising for Chris Tarrant (1995–2001) *

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(200304) * Denise van Outen (2008) *

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(2009–2015). Replacing Denise Van Outen. Left 18 December 2015. * Paddy Bunce (Sports reporter when Johnny Vaughan presented the programme) * Dominic Byrne (newsreader, 2013–2014)

References

External links

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