 While she was with Radio 5 Live she presented the breakfast programme and the relaunched "Midday" show, and co-presented its "Drive" show on weekday afternoons with Peter Allen, for which she and Allen won four Sony Gold Awards.Garvey was born in Liverpool in 1964; her father is Ray Garvey, and her mother, Maureen (born O'Neill), was a hospital receptionist.She was educated at Merchant Taylors' Girls' School in Crosby, an independent school in Merseyside.