Darryl Morris is an ARIA award winning broadcaster, documentary-maker, writer and northerner.

He currently hosts the weekend evening show on national speech station Times Radio, recently achieving record listening figures for the slot. 

Darryl also produces and presents documentaries, including God Next Door for BBC Radio 4, in which Darryl spent several years with a man who claims to be God, and the people who follow him. In 2025, Darryl made We Are Not a Conspiracy School, also for BBC Radio 4, in which he met a group of parents accused of running an illegal school for the children of conspiracy theorists. In the same year, Darryl journeyed into the secretive society of the Freemason’s for Inside Freemason’s HQ and several years ago he embedded himself with the TikTok sleuths and ‘grief junkies’ who turned up at the scene of a disappearance in Searching for Nicola - both for The Times. His first foray into documentary making was for the BBC World Service, where he investigated malicious website design in Dark Patterns and told the story of the further picture ever taken of Earth in The Pale Blue Dot.

Darryl has gained a reputation for embedding himself with complex characters, and using his warm and empathetic approach to gain the trust of those at the fringes of a community, and working to understand their often complicated motivations.

He is also a regular panelist on Channel 5’s The Jeremy Vine Show, and until recently hosted the popular YouTube series History Undone.

Darryl’s radio career started as all great journeys do, on Bolton Market – playing songs and chatting to the dead fish on Bolton Market Radio – and Darryl’s Grandma, who would spend her Saturday perched under one of the speakers in the market hall.

Time spent as a producer for the BBC World Service and XFM were quickly followed by an on air break at BBC Radio Manchester, hosting their evening show. Successful stints at Galaxy FM, XFM and Key 103 followed and in 2013, Darryl become the new host of Darryl Morris in the Morning on The Hits Radio. The breakfast show made its mark – at one point beating BBC 1Xtra in the ratings – and created stand out content that was regularly featured in The Sun, The Mirror, the Daily Mail and heat Magazine, earning him a Bauer award nomination in 2015 for Breakfast Show of the Year.

It was during this time that Darryl starting cutting his teeth for speech radio, with a run of programmes on Liverpool’s Radio City Talk.

In 2016, Darryl began hosting Bauer Media’s syndicated Evening Show, a network of 12 heritage radio stations across the country, bringing his warmth and wit to a massive new audience. The show broke new music and artists, including Lewis Capaldi, Anne Marie and Khalid -as well as Darryl getting under the skin of some of the biggest stars in the world, including Ed Sheehan, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Richard Branson, Sienna Miller, Selena Gomez, Bryan Cranston and P!nk.

In May 2018, Darryl anchored Bauer Media’s coverage and reaction of the Manchester Arena bomb – hosting a special show through the night after the tragic event and anchoring shows live from the iconic vigil, the One Love Manchester Concert and the reopening of the Manchester Arena. The coverage went on to win two ARIA awards. Darryl was commended for his versatility, in being able to drive light content and star guests as well as take on delicate stories and breaking news events, occasionally in the same show.

In 2018, Darryl made his first strides into speech radio, joining talkRADIO to cover shows across the schedule and, in 2019, joined the line up to host the weekday overnight show, Monday to Friday, becoming one of the youngest speech radio hosts, at the age of 29. The show was epitomised by Darryl’s warmth and ability to empathise – using his compassion to tease great stories from callers and guests alike, including former drug addicts, prostitutes, abuse victims, astronauts, a civil rights campaigner and at least one psychopath. After a hugely successful run, breaking big stories and increasing the audience by 115% year-on-year, Darryl moved up to the weekend early breakfast show in July 2020, before joining Times Radio in 2022.

Other TV Credits include appearances on Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, Sky News, The Victoria Derbyshire Show, Steph’s Packed Lunch, 4Music and Newsround.

He has also written for various outlets, including The Times, the guardian, Grazia, heat, The Huffington Post and had a weekly column in his native northern newspaper The Lancashire Evening Post. Darryl regularly publishes stories to his popular newsletter.

Darryl is a season-ticket holder for Bolton Wanderers and lives in Manchester with his fiancé Michaela, their daughter, Molly, and their two cats, Lily and Emmi.

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