Peg Alexander
@tvradiopeg
Award winning 🇬🇧Presenter | Interviewer | Journo | Commentator on’t telly, radio, digital & live. Consultant & non profit CEO. Politics-People-Planet-Music-Smiles. Former Green Party politician/leader. Typo queen
Cos we’re ALL LEEDS ARENT WE! 💛💙 #ALAW #MOT @leedsunited Wish he was playing for #England
I’ll be in conversation with Pru Leith next Saturday - 4th July in the majestic St George’s Hall. Talking getting old, her life, colour and of course cakes! Get your tickets before they sell out. @bradfordlitfest #GBBO #bakeoff #prulieth
Some people argue we can’t afford to take action on climate What those of us who campaigned on climate for decades is that the cost of dealing with the very many and varied real impacts will happen anyway So why not just invest properly and create loads of jobs at same time
Imagine being the worlds first Trillionaire and doing nothing to eradicate poverty, to support communities around the world, to build infrastructure and services like hospitals and schools that directly improve people’s lives I cannot imagine that. When someone tells you who they are, believe them
London-bound with the final proof of my debut book “Matching Rucksacks - A Travelogue Love Story” So excited. Here’s what one of the UK top comedy writers has said of it: "Absolutely gorgeous. A funny, moving, very human one-of-a-kind travelogue fizzing with
Binged the @KylieMinogue doc on Friday night. Only served to reaffirm the truth I’ve always known- that if we ever met each other we would be besties BFFs for ever! 👯🩷 God I love her And ps -I’ve always rated Indie Kylie too. Some Kind of Bliss and Giving It Up and more are cracking tracks.
Just listed to ko ko Gary O’Donoghue on #DesertIslandDiscs. Fantastic. He’s such a great proper journalist reporter and there’s a super moving moment in this which I think is a radio moment of the year. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I have really fallen for Kush and Jo @RATW_official What great young men they are. They have such a strong, fantastic friendship and are so thoughtful and open despite having had tough lives so far. Love them. #raceacrosstheworld
First edit of my forthcoming book landed in my inbox today. Soooooooooo exciting.
Today I shall mainly be wearing Dewberry. Every breath is like a journey back to teenage years. 💜💜💜
Taking a radio break during March as I get settled into my new job- back on air in April but till then, today’s show; 4 years of war in Ukraine, @gig.buddies, more money to Bradford after @bradford_2025 for the Loading Bay & the UKs only @peacemuseumuk #radiopresenter #radionewsshow #journalist
Looks like the 3 Dictators agreeing to carve up the world theory - Putin Europe, Xi Jinping Asia and Africa, Trump Americas - isn’t too far wrong.
I am far from well off, and It’s almost nothing but I would be happy to pay a lot more than this knowing that over 1m children will be lifted out of poverty or live in less poverty. It’s the absolute basics of a civilised society. Those of us who can should be paying more for this
#BDisLit last night was utterly fantastic. @bradford2025 has smashed it this year - proving what so many of us have argued for years. That culture can be the thing that regenerates and transforms And it makes us happy as the smiles and joy last night shows. Win wins.
I’ve supported universal basic income as long as I can remember Mid 90s- I did the Political Slot on @Channel4 for @TheGreenParty. I chose to do it on UBI. I had to practice saying “basic PAUSE income” cos no one knew what it was and could think I was saying “base king come”
Billie Eilish is so right. No one needs to be a billionaire Somehow western societies have accepted that more more more is not just OK but what we should aspire to and it’s a disaster if not. We don’t always need more. Because it’s destroying societies and killing our planet
50 years apart 😊 #signaturehaircutbob #nofilters #nofilters #nocosmeticworkhere
Still struggling to get used to wearing glasses all the time. They do not fit easily with radio presenter headphones. 😳🎙️🎧🤓 #radiopresenter #broadcaster
Ey up! Chuck D just came up to our table and said hello and I replied “you alright Chuck” in my best Leeds accent without thinking. 😳🤦🏼♀️🫣. #PublicEnemyNo1 🤣 #LIFI25
Been out asking some big questions of the people of #Leeds before this years @LeedsIntFest Just a few tickets left now. #LIFI25 #interviewer @LeedsBID leedsinternationalfestival.com
So, at coming up to 57, the time has come. I now have to wear glasses all the time. Trying to be grown up about it and not sulk. 🤓🤓 #nofilter #nofiller #nocosmeticworkhere #glasses
Christmas Shopping 🚨 My travel inspired memoir should be out in time for Christmas. Working title (to be changed) ‘Love, Life and 2 Matching Rucksacks’. So keep watching this space & pls think about it for Xmas pressure! More info ➡️ pegalexander.com/travelmemoirbook #travelmemoir #writer
@thebellesdoc The Belles has been nominated for the European Short Film Awards! So proud to have been a #CoProducer on this short film by the brilliant film maker Jon King. @mrjon1986 @europeanshortawards #documentary #shortfilm🎞📽⚡️#Bradford @bradford_2025
Today my 16th wedding anniversary to my English husband who’s more northern than me. Leeds Unitd running thro him like a stick of rock. His mum a CoE vicar. His fav food fish&chips or a roast dinner & Tetleys bitter. As 🇬🇧🏴 as can be But who is brown This-my multi cultural🇬🇧🏴
Today pure Caribbean in Chapeltown 🌞 #LeedsWestIndianCarnival– the oldest in Europe! South heads to Notting Hill, but from the Midlands up it’s all about Chapeltown 000s in the🌞, colours, music, food + energy. A joy @bbcyorkshire, bringing it alive on radio #radioreporter #journalist #broadcaster
I am very much enjoying the TV show about the history of London. But the presenters aren’t allowed to stand still for a second. Walk and talk - even ride and talk - on steroids in this show. And for some reason the female presenter is only allowed to be filmed from underneath. Stop it TV directors
I am just 5 foot tall. I really struggle to get my little but heavy suitcase on the above seat rails Today I’ve had to get 3 trains. As usual not one person has offered to help when it’s obvious I am really struggling to reach. Always, They just sit and watch.
