BBC London 94.9 (previously known as BBC London Live, Greater London Radio and Radio London) is London's BBC Local Radio station and part of the broader BBC London network. The station broadcasts across the Greater London division, and beyond, on the 94.9 FM frequency, DAB, Virgin Media Channel 930, Sky Channel 0152 (in the London area only) and is also streamed online. Although the station is only on the Sky Digital EPG in London, it is still available on Sky, via manual tuning, for the rest of the United Kingdom in this format.

The station's output is generally similar to other BBC Local Radio stations and targets a broad, mainstream audience. Whilst previous incarnations of the station offered a more diverse range of programmes for London's various ethnic, religious, social and cultural communities, specialist programming now remains in a smaller form and is mostly broadcast during weekend times.

Most programmes on 94.9 are speech-heavy (including interviews, studio guests, banter between presenters and phone-ins), but many also feature music in varying quantities. The musical diversity of the station is the foremost element that differentiates BBC London 94.9 from London's other major, speech-based radio station, LBC 97.3.

BBC London is the BBC English Region producing local radio, television, teletext and online services in London and parts of the surrounding area. Its output includes the daily BBC London News and the weekly Politics Show on television, the BBC London 94.9 radio station and local coverage of the London area on BBC Online and Ceefax. The region's headquarters are situated in the new Egton Wing complex of Broadcasting House.

The staple of the local television service is BBC London News which broadcasts daily on BBC One, appearing with short bulletins during BBC Breakfast, after the BBC News at One and after the BBC News at Ten. The flagship programme is broadcast between 18:30 and 18:55 each weekday evening, following the end of the BBC News at Six and has been presented by Riz Lateef since she succeeded Emily Maitlis who left to join BBC News and Newsnight in March 2006. Comparisons are inevitably made to the commercial TV regional competition, in this case ITV1's London Tonight, which is produced for ITV by ITN. The programme can be viewed in any part of the UK (and Europe) on digital satellite channel 974 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service.

London ⁱ/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.

London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.

Danny Baker (born 22 June 1957, Deptford, South London) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Since the late 1970s, he has worked for a wide range of publications and broadcasters including NME, LWT, the BBC, and Talk Radio.

Baker was born in Deptford in south east London to a dock-working, union-leading father and factory-working mother and grew up in Bermondsey. He left school in 1972 at the age of 15 and initially worked in One Stop Records, a small but fashionable record shop in South Molton Street in London's West End.

In 1976, with fellow Deptfordian Mark Perry, Baker founded the proto-punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue, and this led to an offer from the New Musical Express, home to the likes of Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, Charles Shaar Murray and Nick Kent. Baker initially began working as the office receptionist, but was soon contributing regular articles and reviews before progressing to interviews. He often refers to these times during his radio shows, regularly citing examples of the ridiculous behaviour exhibited by his rock star interviewees.

Oludotun Adebayo MBE (born 25 August 1960) is a Nigerian-born, British radio presenter, writer and publisher. He is best known for his work on Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the obituary programme Brief Lives.

Dotun Emmanuel Adebayo was born in Lagos but moved with his family to the UK at the age of five. As a young boy he joined the National Youth Theatre where he starred in Killing Time by Barrie Keeffe, Julius Caesar by Shakespeare and several other productions. The American playwright Tennessee Williams chose Adebayo to play a small part in the world premiere of his last play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, in which Adebayo acted opposite Pierce Brosnan. Adebayo also acted opposite Vincent Price and Christopher Lee in The Oblong Box at the age of eight, and Michael Elphick in Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier's The Element of Crime.

As well as claiming to have been the first black teddy boy in London in his early teens, Adebayo also won a Rotary Club public speaking award as a teenager, and worked for the BBC from aged 12 on Network Africa.