Matthew Davies

presenter

Matthew began his career writing sketches and co-presenting ‘Gimme 5’, a Saturday morning show for CITV.

Matthew also co-created, wrote and presented the character of Flynn for ‘50/50’ on CBBC and worked on the show for three years.

Matthew worked with Aardman Animations on the multi award winning 'Creature Comforts’ (ITV1+2).

He presented weekday Breakfast at BBC Tees (May 06 – July 08). Rajar showed an increase in listenership by more than 20%! Last year he was honoured to win a BBC National Award for Best Breakfast Show (Gold) at the BBC ‘Frank Gillard Awards’. The category was hotly contested with all BBC local radio stations submitting entries. Judges described Matthew as “confident and highly competent.” Apart from the news element to the programme, Matthew wrote all his material.

Matthew was also part of the presentation team who won a Sony (Gold) for a programme on President Bush’s visit to Mr Blair’s then constituency. He has also contributed to output on the World Service and Radio 4. Matthew has also won 'Presenter of the Year'. (Gillards - Gold).

Matthew has had a successful television career in children's broadcasting. Highlights included dancing (badly) with Take That. Other TV credits include Superchamps (action / games) and Teen, Win Lose or Draw (team captain / game).

He co-presented Action Time (Social action) and fronted New Visions (film) as well as Out and About on BBC ONE (regional). Matthew also wrote and presented two regular features for Tyne Tees, Matt’s Movie’s and What’s On Café and has contributed to several other TV programmes.

He’s fronted an international TV ad campaign for Nestlés Multi Cheerio’s and has done numerous voice-overs for many different clients.

Matthew currently presents his own Saturday show on BBC Radio Kent.

actor

He’s appeared in Byker Grove and voiced the opening sequence for the BBC TV documentary on Billy Elliott.

In the past Matthew performed stand up around the country and learnt performance comedy from one of the greats, the slapstick master, Jack Tripp.

He has appeared in twleve commercial pantomimes in the UK, from Eastbourne to Middlesbrough where he stayed for six seasons. He has starred as Captain Hook, Nurse Glucose and many more.

Matthew has compered numerous events from the Disney Awards to Education and Business awards.

writer

He was a columnist for the Evening Gazette, a paper which is part of the Trinity-Mirror Group. He wrote a bi-weekly column for nearly two years.

Matt is a BBC trained journalist and has written thousands of q & a cues in his time as well as online articles for the BBC. On the other hand he's also been mentored by three time Emmy award winning animation writer Jeffrey Scott (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Super-Friends, Spiderman, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies).

He now has two animation series in development (all action-comedy), as well as a feature film (rom com) and a live action TV show (sitcom).

Matthew wrote a short film which is about to be shot starring David Sterne (Wolfman, Pirates of the Caribbean).

In the last year Matthew has written for Jamie Theakston’s Breakfast Show on Heart Radio in London, written and co-directed a children’s audio guide called ‘The Eye Spy' and written a one hour radio drama called ‘Yellow Coal’ which the BBC said was “a fluently written, focused script.”

Matthew is currently writing a feature film and a book.