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Alice Levine

Alice Levine is an English radio and television presenter, writer and narrator. She was a radio DJ for BBC Radio 1 from 2013 to 2020. She co-created and presented the podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno, and is the co-founder of the podcast festival Crossed Wires. Levine has also presented several television programmes, including Sleeping with the Far Right (2019) and Sex Actually with Alice Levine (2021–2023).

Early life and education
Levine was born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Her mother was a painter and her father, a Sociology lecturer. She has a brother, Max. Levine studied English at the University of Leeds. There, she met Jamie Morton and James Cooper, her collaborators on My Dad Wrote a Porno, in the TV department. Levine played an active part in Leeds Student Television, the university's TV station. Her and Cooper created a magazine show called LS6. It won Best Light Entertainment Programme at the National Student Television Awards and Levine was voted Best On-Screen Female. Levine spent some time working in Melbourne. She moved to London in 2007. ==Career==
Career
In 2007, Levine and James Cooper presented Launch Pad for Bebo in collaboration with RDF digital, where they sent people's messages into space. hosting Celebrity Bites for . From 2011–2013, Levine hosted ''Big Brother's Bit on the Side'' with Jamie East on Channel 5. the BBC Young Writer's Awards. In 2014, Levine hosted the Barclaycard Mercury Music Sessions and the Mercury Music Prize on Channel 4. and the Women in Music awards (at least ten times). She was also the red carpet and backstage host for the BAFTA Craft Awards and the BAFTA TV Awards in May of the same year. In 2018, Levine co-hosted a series of Channel 4's reality show, The Circle, with Maya Jama. Broadcast from September to October 2020, Levine co-hosted the 15th series of the BBC Radio 4 programme The Museum of Curiosity alongside John Lloyd. Levine presented Levine on Love in 2017, a series for the BBC in which she explored the world of modern romance. Levine has appeared on many comedy shows, including Never Mind the Buzzcocks on BBC2, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled for Dave, Room 101, Travel Man with Richard Ayoade, QI, and Would I Lie to You?. In 2018, Levine was one of five contestants in the sixth series of the comedy game show Taskmaster. Sleeping with the Far Right (2019) In February 2019, Channel 4 broadcast Sleeping with the Far Right, a film in which Levine lived for a week with British nationalist Jack Sen in Southport, Merseyside. He was born Dilip Sengupta to a half-Indian, half-South African father and English mother, grew up (aged seven to twenty) in America, and moved to the UK where he married a Ukrainian woman. The first series covered 'cam' models (episode 1); BDSM (episode 2); and sex and wellness (episode 3). The second three-part series began airing on 27 February 2023. It covered the integration of technology in sex (episode 1); multi-partner relationships (episode 2); and 'feedism' and 'gaining' (episode 3). On 15 July 2020, Levine announced in an Instagram post that she was leaving Radio 1 after nine years at the station. Her last show was on 9 August 2020 after a series of three farewell shows. Podcasting My Dad Wrote a Porno (2015–2022) Levine is one of the three co-creators of the podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno, alongside Jamie Morton and James Cooper who met whilst studying at Leeds University. Each episode of the podcast featured Morton reading a new chapter of Belinda Blinked, an amateur erotic novel series written by his father under the pen name Rocky Flintstone. The podcast had shorter spin-off episodes called 'Footnotes', featuring a range of a-list names, such as Dame Emma Thompson, Lin Manuel Miranda and Michael Sheen. and Radio City Music Hall. Merchandise was created for the series. It was given awards including the British Podcast Awards, and a Webby Award in 2019 in the comedy category. It surpassed fifty million downloads worldwide in 2015, but this has yet to materialise. British Scandal (2021) In April 2021, Levine began hosting Wondery true crime podcast British Scandal with Matt Forde, which tells the stories of British history. The series was nominated for Best Entertainment Podcast and won The Spotlight Award at the British Podcast Awards in 2022. Other (2022–present) In the 2022, Levine presented Very Modern Quests, a role-playing improv podcast released as an Audible Original. The series featured participants such as Greg James, Joe Lycett and Phil Wang. In 2024, Levine produced and presented The Price of Paradise, a true story based around 2002 TV show No Going Back, detailing the story of Jayne Gaskin, who bought a private island off Nicaragua. Levine co-founded and runs the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival, held in Sheffield, alongside producer Dino Sofos and Tramlines co-founder James O'Hara. The first festival was supported by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, which provided £325,000 of funding for the event. In the second year, Greg James also joined as Creative Director. Other work In 2013, Levine co-founded a supper club, Jackson & Levine, with business partner Laura Jackson. In 2014, the pair wrote a food column for Company magazine. In 2015, they completed a Channel 4 Shorts series, My Pop-Up Restaurant. In 2017, they produced a book, Round to Ours, published by Quadrille, which includes recipes used at their supper clubs. They have collaborated on two ranges for Habitat: a range of table linens in 2017, and a range of ceramic tableware in 2018. ==Awards and nominations==
Awards and nominations
• Best On-Screen Female, National Student Television Awards. ==Filmography and broadcast history==
Filmography and broadcast history
Television Radio Podcasting == Personal life ==
Personal life
Levine has lived in London most of her adult life. She lives in East London. ==References==
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