to 12midnight. The show was the only one of its kind on UK radio, with Hirst playing each song live from the original vinyl copies, along with taking live listener requests. The show was taken off air - initially, according to the BBC, temporarily - to be replaced by a phone-in during the first Covid-19 lockdown in the UK in March 2020. However, the show never returned. Subsequent announcements that Vinyl Revival would be revived in another format by Hirst have so far come to nothing. At the Radio Festival which took place at The British Library in London on 26 October 2016, she was awarded a 'Fellowship', the highest honour The Radio Academy may confer upon a member of the radio industry, to recognise her outstanding contribution to British radio and the industry. In April 2018, Hirst began hosting her first, solo, daily radio show since leaving Capital in 2014. The Stephanie Hirst Show was broadcast on BBC Radio Leeds 9:00-12:00, then moving to 14:00-18:00 during Covid-19. She left the BBC in April 2021. Alongside her radio career, she has always DJ'ed live. Hirst created her 'Kitchen Belters' brand in 2016 which was born out of DJ'ing in her kitchen when the capability to stream video on Facebook Live arrived in late 2015. Hirst realised early on that a weekly live DJ set of 90s, 00s & 10s dance anthems was something which her followers would connect with whilst getting ready to go out, or cooking their evening meal. The show gained weekly views & replays of 100k+. From the success of this she made a return to commercial radio for Bauer's Hits Radio Pride, initially a temporary 'pop up' DAB & Online station for the LGBT community, it has subsequently become a full time national radio station. She hosted her first 'Belters' show on 28 August 2020, and can be heard Saturday evenings 19:00-20:00. From the success of her weekly Hits Radio Pride show, she joined the national Hits Radio network in August 2021 to host 'Stephanie Hirst's Belters' - a 3-hour celebration of the biggest 90s, 00s & 10s dance throwbacks. It has since become one of the most streamed shows on the Hits Radio app. She also is a trustee of The Radio Academy and a former chair of the Student Radio Awards sponsored by BBC Radio 1 and Global Radio and can be seen on