Lliana Bird, known professionally as Birdy, is a British radio presenter, writer, actress, and co-founder of charities Help Refugees and The Kindly Collective. She is currently a presenter on Radio X.
Career
Radio
Bird currently presents the Sunday evening show on Radio X. She has also previously contributed to Capital Radio, Virgin Radio, and BBC Three Counties Radio. She is also a regular guest on LBC, BBC 5 Live and BBC London. In 2010 she presented a series of radio documentaries about independent record labels entitled "Independents Day". She presented on XFM from 2007 until 2015, when the station rebranded as Radio X. Bird was the final live presenter on Xfm, delivering the final live link and playing the song that the station began on, MC5'S 'Kick Out The Jams' Bird presents a weekly podcast entitled Geek Chic's Weird Science which was selected as iTunes Best of 2014. She also co-presents "Get It Off Your Breasts" alongside Emma Gannon, a female-focussed podcast featuring unfiltered roundtable discussions
Television
Bird has appeared on Sky News and BBC Breakfast as a guest commentator. She previously presented TFTV and XFM's online station, XFM TV. In 2014 she presented a conservation series about London Zoo. In 2016 she was a guest on BBC's Springwatch.
Theatre and TV
Bird has also worked as an actress in various productions, including Fiddler on the Roof at The Lyric Theatre, Boom-bang-a-bang at the Etcetera Theatre, and The Christmas Cock-up at The Cockpit Theatre. In 2009, Bird set up a theatrical production company called Bird & Be with Phoebe Barran. Their first production was a run of Orlando Wells' The Tin Horizon at Theatre 503, which received positive reviews from critics. In 2013 she co-produced Orlando Wells' adaption of Patrick Hamilton's The Duke in Darkness, which ran from 16 April to 11 May at the Tabard Theatre. Bird has appeared in several episodes of The Mighty Boosh, and in episodes of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy Series 1 and 2.
Writing
Bird writes for The Huffington Post on a variety of social issues. In 2016 she released a book, The Mice Who Sing for Sex with Dr Jack from her Geek Chic's Weird Science podcast.
Charity work
Bird is the co-founder of Help Refugees, a humanitarian organisation providing aid to refugees across Europe and beyond. Help Refugees was named as one of the NESTA New Radicals and won Liberty's "Jo Cox, More in Common" award. Bird was also named as one of Foreign Policy's "Top 100 Global Thinkers 2016". In 2016, Bird hosted the London Peace Talks. In 2017 Bird co-founded The Kindly Collective, which brings people together to fundraise and champion projects supporting women, children and creatures across the globe.
Personal life
Bird has lived with comedian Noel Fielding since about 2010. They live in Highgate, north London. Bird and Fielding have one child, a daughter named Dali born in 2018.
