A Brief History of Tim
Tim Lihoreau presented the Classic FM Breakfast show for 12 years and has the bags under his eyes to prove it. He now presents breakfast at the weekend and is also the station’s Creative Director. He has won a multitude of awards for his radio writing and production on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as being the author of twenty-three books. Aside from writing about classical music, Tim has penned humour books called Modern Phobias and Schadenfreude, which both take a wry look at some of the peccadilloes of 21st-century life. He also collaborated with Stephen Fry to produce the book ‘The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music”. With a degree in music from the University of Leeds, Tim worked as a professional pianist and at a classical and jazz record label before moving into radio.
His passion for podcasts led to a British Podcast Award for the music and mystery pod, Case Notes. His latest podcast is due to launch Autumn ’24 and he is simply bursting at the seams to tell you about it. Along with his wife, he runs three amateur choirs in his home village in Cambridgeshire
Tim’s alternative ‘Modern Phobias’ biog
Modern Phobias Bio
Tim Lihoreau was born in Leeds in 1965. His early life was blighted by fronsophobia and it is highly likely that he suffered the odd hebdomophobic attack, something which doctors now think might have been a side-effect of his increasing holusophobia. Despite his crippling hrydaphobia, (not to mention his excirculophobic tendencies) he made it through school bearing his aliacallophobia almost proudly, as if it were a trophy. The lack of any real other options led him to study music at Leeds University – where the first signs of his caerulophobia became apparent. His graduation was made all the more remarkable as it involved overcoming both chronic arcaphobia and occasional bouts of manepostophobia. For a time, he played the piano for his living, only overcoming his officinophobia in 1990, when he started at Jazz FM. In 1991, he conquered uxorphobia, before moving to work at Classic FM in 1993, where, it is thought, the first symptoms of primaforaphobia led him to gain the rank of Creative Director. He is the author of several books – he notably overcame cadophobia to write The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music with Stephen Fry – and was a contributor to both The Daily Telegraph and The Independent, something which helped his disabling contumaphobia. By way of therapy for his ceterinfanophobia, he now lives in Cambridge with his wife and three children.He is calvophobic.