#29 Gemma Cairney (Radio Presenter) - On Being Yourself And The Joy Of A Zig-Zag Career

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🗓️ 12 August 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Gemma Cairney is a radio presenter who currently presents The Surgery on Wednesday evenings at 9.00pm on BBC Radio 1. In January 2015, Gemma started a production company called Boom Shakalaka Productions. The company produces various types of content, including podcasts and theatre. Boom Shakalaka produced a show about depression at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015 called 'My Beautiful Black Dog'.Since 2008 Gemma has presented the BBC’s Glastonbury festival coverage and in 2015 she co-hosted BBC1’s New Year’s Eve coverage alongside Nick Grimshaw.In 2013, Gemma launched the Fox Problem alongside Georgia LA and Georgie Okell which was an entertainment show live-streamed via YouTube.A few weeks before recording this podcast Gemma announced her first book called guide for life called Open: A Toolkit for How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be which comes out March next week.

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0:00.0	Hello welcome back to the podcast Control
0:02.0	Alte delete I'm Emma Gannon the host of the podcast and the author of the book
0:05.7	Control Alte delete how I grew up online which is out now so today's guest is the
0:10.9	very amazing Jemma Kearney. So Jemma if you don't already know is a radio
0:16.4	presenter who currently presents the surgery on Wednesday evenings on BBC Radio 1 at 9 PM. So Jemma right before recording this podcast she had
0:26.2	presented Women's Hour and also covered for Jonathan Ross on BBC Radio to The Arts
0:31.8	Show. In 2015 Jemma started her own production company
0:35.3	called Boom Shackleaka Productions. The company produces various types of
0:39.8	content including podcasts for the likes of L magazine and theatre.
0:44.8	They recently produced a show about Depression at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival called
0:49.0	My Beautiful Black Dog, which I saw last year and it was absolutely brilliant.
0:53.6	Jemma has also presented since 2008 the BBC's Glastonbury Festival coverage on TV.
0:59.1	A few weeks before recording this podcast Jemma announced her first book called Open, a tool kit for how magic
1:04.8	and messed up life can be, which comes out in March next year and I'm so so excited to read it.
1:10.7	So Jemma came around for a chat and I really hope you enjoy this episode. I
1:14.3	absolutely love it and here it is. So excited to have Gemma Carey with me.
1:21.8	Hello! Which is amazing, quite surreal because I was listening to you. excited to have Jem O'Kerney with me. Hello.
1:23.0	Which is amazing.
1:24.0	Quite surreal because I was listening to you last night on the BBC Radio 2.
1:27.0	At the moment I'm really getting around,
1:29.0	like I feel like I'm in everyone's face is quite annoying.
1:32.0	I love it, absolutely love it. But yes, I've caught you
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