Annie Macmanus is an internationally renowned DJ, broadcaster and a bestselling author. Annie runs the hugely successful clubbing concept Before Midnight and can be seen in the booth and on the biggest stages of music festivals and clubs around the world. She presented the flagship new music show on BBC Radio 1 for 17 years before leaving to concentrate on writing and podcasting. Since then she has written two critically acclaimed novels, the Sunday Times bestselling Mother Mother (2021) and The Mess We’re In (2023), whose rights have been bought for adaptation by It’s All Made Up Productions, the Liverpool based company who co-produced the biggest TV show of 2025 so far, Adolescence. Her writing has also featured in The Guardian, Irish Times, Stylist and Independent. Her podcast Changes ran for four years, accruing over nine million downloads, and now she presents BBC weekly podcast Sidetracked alongside Nick Grimshaw in which she interviews the biggest names in music, from Robert Smith to Kylie Minogue to Stevie Wonder.