The
Irish presenter – about to debut as a novelist – will be replaced on new
music show Future Sounds by Clara Amfo
Annie Mac is to leave
BBC Radio 1 after 17 years. The Irish presenter – full name Annie MacManus – presents the new music show Future Sounds on weekdays between 6pm and 8pm, as well as a dance music-oriented Friday night show. Clara Amfo, the BBC broadcaster who competed in the most recent series of
Strictly Come Dancing, will take over Mac’s Future Sounds show from September, with Danny Howard replacing Mac in the Friday night Dance Party slot.
The BBC said that Mac had fronted “some incredible moments on BBC Radio 1, from live sessions to landmark interviews with the world’s biggest artists. Sending all of our love, appreciation and luck for the future to Annie.” Mac told her followers on
Twitter and
Instagram that it was “hard to articulate what this
Job has meant to me”, going on to outline her career trajectory since joining the station as a production assistant in 2002, and landing her first solo show – Annie Mac’s Mashup – in 2004.