Steve Berry (presenter)
Steve Berry is a British media presenter, best known as a member of the presenting team for the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear from 1993 to 1999, where he reviewed motorcycles and made features relating to them.[1][2] As well as the main programme, he was the main presenter of the Top Gear Radio Show on BBC Radio 5 Live which was broadcast from 1994 to 1998, and appeared on the spin-off programmes Top Gear Motorsport, Top Gear Ex-Files and Top Gear GTi. Berry wrote and presented The Bike's the Star, a four-part documentary series for BBC2 and produced British Biker Build Off for Discovery Channel in 2005 and Bennett's Biker Build Off for ITV's Men & Motors in 2006. Berry appears regularly as a guest on BBC radio, has hosted phone-in shows on Talksport[3] and writes for The Sunday Times.[4] For some time, Berry presented 'the longest show on UK radio' for Talksport[5] and after guest appearances on 105.4 Century Radio, he became the presenter of the breakfast show on 106.1 Rock Radio, a classic rock station based in Manchester until 2011.[6] He produced and directed Motor Morphers, an engineering challenge show made by ITN for Channel 5 in May 2013. He writes a regular column 'Berry on Classics' in Classic Car Weekly and is a regular expert contributor to BBC Breakfast. In January 2014 Berry returned as the breakfast presenter for 106.1 RealXS (previously known as 106.1 Rock Radio). He presents a weekly radio show Steve's Speedshop on FAB Radio International, described as 'a digital man-cave for the passionate petrolhead'. In April 2019 it was announced that he was leaving his breakfast show that he hosts on XS Manchester later the same month. He hosts a monthly motoring phone-in on BBC radio Wales and is a regular guest on the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2. References
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