A BBC radio star has handed away aged 52.
Emma Britton handed away aged 52 (Picture: BBC)
Beloved BBC presenter Emma Britton has died aged 52. Emma, finest identified for internet hosting the breakfast programmes on BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset, handed away after being identified with incurable stage 4 lung most cancers in April, 2025. Her household paid tribute to the radio star, saying Emma was “so grateful for the love and care proven to her in latest months”.
“We’re additionally, as you’ll count on, going to commemorate and have fun her life in precisely the way in which she wished. And with the grace and love she confirmed so many households in the identical state of affairs we discover ourselves now. It is laborious to understand simply how many individuals she has helped so profoundly over time.”
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Emma’s BBC colleagues additionally paid their respects, as Gareth Roberts, government editor of each stations, referred to as Emma a “real, heat presenter” who was an “superb colleague and an awesome good friend to many”.
We‘re very sorry to announce that our good friend and colleague Emma Britton has died aged 52 ➡️ https://t.co/H4fwsab5Rd
She had been a voice throughout BBC Radio Somerset and BBC Radio Bristol for greater than 20 years.
All our ideas are with Emma’s household and pals ❤️ pic.twitter.com/MsbIKDkBZn
— BBC Somerset (@bbcsomerset) Might 23, 2026
He added: “Emma was fairly merely the most effective of BBC native radio.
“A real, heat presenter who not solely lived right here within the West however who actually cared in regards to the communities in Somerset and Bristol with a ardour that leaped out of the radio.”
Stephanie Marshall, Head of BBC West, added: “Emma was Mrs Bridgwater, all the time doing her hometown and Somerset proud.
“She shall be painfully missed however fully unforgettable, and the world whereas poorer with out her, we’re much better off for her having been in it, if solely it may have been for a bit longer.”
Emma joined BBC Somerset again in 2007, earlier than taking up the breakfast present in 2013. She then moved throughout to Radio Bristol in 2016, the place she hosted for 5 years.
In February 2026, she raised over £11,000 for ALK Constructive UK, a charity which she mentioned “saved my life from falling aside”.
She added: “Within the weeks following my prognosis I used to be in a fairly darkish place.
“The charity has given me and my husband John assist, recommendation, solidarity, data, schooling, friendship and above all they offer us hope.”
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