Darryl Morris (born 7 September 1990) is an English radio broadcaster. He currently hosts the weekend late show on national speech radio station

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. Prior to joining

, he hosted the Early Breakfast show on sister station

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and his own show on TV network talkTV. Morris began on school radio before being signed to present

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series Generation Next. He had brief stints at Manchester-based radio station Key 103 and digital station

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, as well as working for

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as a researcher. In 2008, Morris appeared in Chicago Town Pizza television adverts. In 2009, he joined Global Radio to work across the now rebranded

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, formerly Galaxy Manchester, and XFM Manchester. He also presented 12-4pm weekdays on 1458 Gold Radio. On 24 June 2012 he returned to Bauer Radio (

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, Rock FM and The Hits Radio). He hosted ''Darryl Morris in the Morning'', the breakfast show on

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and

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from 2013 until August 2015. He also hosted a Saturday talk show on Liverpool's

Radio City Talk Radio City Talk (previously City Talk 105.9) was an Independent Local Radio station in Liverpool, England. In May 2020, it was announced by Bauer that Radio City Talk would cease broadcasting, after concluding that the station was no longer fi ...

. He became presenter of

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's Evening Show in July 2016, broadcasting on 9 different radio stations including

, Radio City and

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. He also hosted the Breakfast Show on

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. In 2019, Morris moved into speech radio and joined

to host the overnight show before moving to Early Breakfast. In 2021, he produced and presented a documentary about manipulative web design, Dark Patterns, for

. He has had articles in ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' and a weekly column in the ''

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''. He can occationally be seen as a contributor on

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and '' Good Morning Britain''. Morris lives in Manchester and is a season-ticket holder for Bolton Wanderers Football Club. I left TalkTalk TV in September 2022

References

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