Fee Mak
A conference, awards ceremony, or internal town hall is judged on whether the room actually lifts. The brief is usually the same: hold the energy, manage the running order, and speak to an audience that spans generations, cultures, and attention levels without flattening the tone. Most events fail this quietly, through a host who reads the autocue but cannot read the room.
Fee Mak is a BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter and professional event host who keeps awards ceremonies, broadcast events and corporate stages running with pace, warmth and credibility across diverse audiences.
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Why organisations work with Fee Mak
- She holds a live room across formats that very few hosts move between credibly: BBC daytime radio, the MOBO Awards mainstage, in-game presenting for London Spirit at The Hundred, and literary festival chairing at Hay and Cheltenham.
- Her BBC 1Xtra Sunday Breakfast residency means she is in front of a national, multi-generational, culturally diverse audience every week. That muscle transfers directly to award shows and internal events trying to land with the same audience.
- She chairs interview content as a working craft, not as decoration. The Business Book Awards, Ditto X Meet the Music Industry, and book festival panels are formats that expose hosts who cannot follow a guest’s argument in real time.
- Her event roster includes inclusion-led briefs that organisations frequently get wrong: the Diana Award Anti-Racist Bullying showcase, Inclusive Books for Children Awards, BBC Bitesize Tour. She is a credible voice for clients who need a host who can carry that tone without performing it.
Biography highlights
- Host, BBC Radio 1Xtra Sunday Breakfast Show, since July 2022.
- Selected through the BBC Radio 1 Presenter Search 2019; presenter credits include Christmas Drivetime, Early Breakfast, and daytime cover on Radio 1.
- Awards host credits: MOBO Awards, AIM Awards, Business Book Awards, Diana Award Anti-Racist Bullying showcase, Inclusive Books for Children Awards.
- Live event host credits: Red Bull BC One UK Cypher, Move It, Breakin’ Convention, U.Dance National Showcase, BBC Bitesize Tour, Ditto X Meet the Music Industry, Earl’s Court International Film Festival.
- In-game host for London Spirit at The Hundred (Lord’s).
- Chair at Hay Festival, Cheltenham Festival, Chiswick Book Festival, and Brighton Festival.
- BA (Hons) French and Business Administration, University of Kent. Former junior associate, The Royal Ballet School; West End child cast of Billy Elliot the Musical.
Biography
The hardest job at a live event is the one people only notice when it goes wrong. Holding a 90-minute awards ceremony together, moving between sponsors, winners and a writers’ room of jokes that may or may not land, takes a craft that broadcast hosts spend years building. Fee Mak has built it across an unusually wide range of stages.
Her weekly residency is the Sunday Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, where she has hosted since July 2022. The route in was the BBC Radio 1 Presenter Search in 2019, followed by Christmas Drivetime, Early Breakfast and daytime cover on Radio 1 before moving across to 1Xtra. That is a competitive route into BBC daytime broadcasting and gives her a working relationship with a national, multi-generational, culturally diverse audience that organisations pay agencies a great deal of money to reach.
The event work runs alongside the broadcast role and is the reason most corporate buyers commission her. Awards: MOBO, AIM, Business Book Awards, Inclusive Books for Children, the Diana Award Anti-Racist Bullying showcase. Live events: Red Bull BC One UK Cypher, Move It, Breakin’ Convention, U.Dance National Showcase, BBC Bitesize Tour, Ditto X Meet the Music Industry, Earl’s Court International Film Festival. Sport: in-game host for London Spirit at The Hundred. Literary festivals: chair at Hay, Cheltenham, Chiswick, and Brighton.
The thread across those rooms is one specific capability: she can read an audience that does not share a single demographic and find a register that works for all of it. That is why she lands in inclusion-led briefs, youth audiences, music industry rooms, and corporate award stages with the same composure.
Key speaking topics
- Awards and ceremony hosting
- Conference and summit MC work
- Panel chairing and interview moderation
- Literary festival and book event chairing
- Live sport and entertainment presenting
- Inclusion-led event hosting
- Broadcast voiceover
Ideal for
- Brand and marketing leads commissioning a national awards ceremony, brand launch, or industry gala
- Internal communications and culture leads running town halls, recognition events, or all-hands moments that need a credible external voice
- Organisations running inclusion, education, or youth-audience programmes that need a host who can carry the tone authentically
- Conference programmers needing a moderator who can chair interviews and panels live without losing the thread
Audience outcomes
- A live event that runs on time, with energy held from open to close
- Sponsor, winner and guest moments that land cleanly without dead air between them
- Interview segments where the guest is drawn out rather than walked over
- A host presence that connects with audiences across generations, cultures and seniority in the same room