BBC Music Introducing is a network of radio shows across the UK supporting new and interesting music at grassroots level. The backbone of that network consists of 32 local shows on stations across England and the Channel Islands. They’re supplemented by flagship programmes in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and on the BBC’s national networks such as Radio 1, 6 Music, 1Xtra and Asian Network.

Those 32 backbone shows air every Saturday night, supporting local artists with local airplay, interviews and sessions – often on shoestring budgets. Their dedicated teams of enthusiasts try to provide local gigs, festival stages and outside broadcasts whenever possible – and to forward their discoveries to sister shows on local and national BBC stations for further airplay.

Here’s where they are:

• BBC Introducing in Beds, Herts and Bucks with Honor Morrison
• BBC Introducing in Berkshire with Alex West
• BBC Introducing in Cambridgeshire with Rebecca May
• BBC Introducing in The Channel Islands with Tim Hunter
• BBC Introducing in Coventry & Warwickshire with Brody Swain
• BBC Introducing in Cumbria with Emma Linton
• BBC Introducing in the East Midlands with Dean Jackson
• BBC Introducing in Essex with Jake Peach
• BBC Introducing in Hereford & Worcester with Andrew Marston
• BBC Introducing on Radio Humberside with Alan Raw
• BBC Introducing in Kent with Abbie McCarthy
• BBC Introducing in Lancashire with William Wolstenholme
• BBC Introducing in Lincolnshire with George Smith
• BBC Introducing in London with Jess Iszatt
• BBC Introducing in Manchester with Roesh
• BBC Introducing in Merseyside with Dave Monks
• BBC Introducing in Norfolk with Kitty Perrin
• BBC Introducing in Northampton with Kerrie Cosh
• BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire with Dave Gilyeat
• BBC Introducing in Sheffield with Christian Carlisle
• BBC Introducing in Shropshire with Michaela Wylde
• BBC Introducing: Solent with Steph Nieuwenhuys
• BBC Introducing: Sussex & Surrey with Melita Dennett
• BBC Introducing in the South West with Daniel Pascoe
• BBC Introducing from Stoke with Rob Adcock
• BBC Introducing in Suffolk with Angelle Joseph
• BBC Introducing on Radio Tees with Shakk
• BBC Introducing in the North East with Nick Roberts
• BBC Introducing in the West with James Threlfall
• BBC Introducing in the West Midlands with Theo Johnson
• BBC Introducing in West Yorkshire with Emily Pilbeam
• BBC Introducing in York and North Yorkshire with Jericho Keys

These teams listened to an average of 4,000 tracks a week last year – all of which were uploaded by the artists direct to their local show free of charge, with no need to pay a record plugger. Many of today’s hotly-tipped names got their first airplay through BBC Introducing – though our job isn’t just to act as scouts for the UK record industry.

Introducing’s crowning achievment since 2007 has been helping listeners find interesting new music and help interesting musicians find new listeners year in, year out – whether or not that music was destined for the Top 75. If you’ve appreciated our local BBC Introducing network over the past 15 years – either as an artist or as a listener – here’s a chance tell us how and why… [wpforms id=”39438″ title=”false”] We’re getting so many responses we can’t show them all here, so if you submitted a comment earlier, don’t worry, we’ve received it and it’ll be seen by the people who need to see it. Here are the latest 1000 responses…

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