People

Lliana Bird

United Kingdom

Biography

Lliana is a radio DJ & broadcaster, currently on Radio X (formerly Xfm). In August 2015 she co-founded Help Refugees, a grassroots organisation which has gone on to become the biggest provider of aid to Calais and Dunkirk, and expanded all over the rest of Europe providing vital humanitarian aid and assistance to tens of thousands of refugees every day. She also wrote her first book in early 2016 entitled “the mice who sing for sex, and other weird tales from the world of science” which will be out in October 2016.

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“You don’t need permission from anyone to go out and do your bit. You don’t need permission to show compassion to your fellow man, woman and child, and you definitely, as I have learned, don’t need permission to help refugees.”

Lliana Bird