Besides The Spotlight

Finley is joined by Jon Kay, who has more than 30 years of experience as a broadcast journalist - reporting and presenting every kind of news story across the UK and around the world. Jon currently presents on BBC Breakfast, the UK's most-watched daily live morning show, hosting more than three hours of live television on the country's most-watched channel. The job includes breaking news stories, live questioning of senior politicians, handling a wide range of challenging, sensitive and complex issues, and interviewing members of the public from all walks of life and backgrounds - as well as decision-makers, business leaders and celebrities from the UK and around the world.

Finley is joined by Mike Sweeney, who is currently working at BBC Radio Manchester, hosting the mid-morning show Monday to Thursday from 10 am until 2 pm. He has won New York Radio awards, including a Sony in 2002 and Guardian Media Group's Presenter of the Year in 2009. The Radio Academy gave him a Lifetime Achievement award in 2011 and he was named The Variety Children's Charity Radio Industry Legend in 2012.

Finley is joined by George Painter, the Bristol Regional Deputy News Editor at Global, Europe’s largest radio company. He won a regional newsreader of the year award in 2023 at the Commercial Radio News Awards and he has more than 20 years experience in broadcasting and journalism.

Finley is joined by Ana Da Silva, a multimedia freelance journalist, passionate about giving local people a voice. Her work has been aired and published online across several radio stations in the Greatest Hits Radio and Hits Radio networks (part of Bauer Media), and more recently at BBC Radio Bristol. Before freelancing, which she started doing full-time in January 2022, Ana volunteered at a Bristol community radio station, BCfm, for over three years. At the same time, she was working in social media management and content creation at an award-winning employer brand agency in Bristol.

Finley is joined by Chris Arnold, a presenter, producer and journalist working across a variety of shows at BBC Radio Bristol. Roles include presenting the evening show, reporting from the radio car, pre-recorded/live interviews with guests, creating packages, providing travel updates, editing audio, booking guests and general assisting on shows across the week. Chris' role also includes occasionally working with BBC Radio Bristol's social media team as well as the BBC Inside Out West, BBC Politics West & BBC Points West television teams.