Rachel Burden

Last updated

Rachel Mary Ann Cecilia Burden (born 22 January 1975 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England) is a newsreader, radio news reporter and presenter. She has presented the BBC Radio 5 Live weekday breakfast show since 2011. She is also one of the main weekend presenters of BBC Breakfast .

Contents

Early life

The fourth of five children, [1] Burden is the only daughter of former BBC journalist Paul Burden and his wife, [2] and the niece of the actor Hugh Burden. She went to school from 1987-93 at Wycombe High School, a girls' grammar school in High Wycombe, taking English, History, Politics and Practical Music at A-level. [3] [4] After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, she studied broadcast journalism at Cardiff University. [1]

Career

Burden began her career as a reporter at BBC Radio Suffolk, and 15 months later joined BBC Radio Bristol where she co-hosted the early morning breakfast show, working alongside Nigel Dando, the brother of murdered presenter Jill Dando. She joined Radio 5 Live in 2003, the day before her father retired from the BBC. [5] She took over the weekday breakfast show from Shelagh Fogarty in May 2011, alongside co-presenter Nicky Campbell. Burden made her debut on the BBC Breakfast television programme as a relief presenter on Saturday 23 August 2015. [6]

Personal life

Burden is married to journalist Luke Mendham and has four children. [7] The family lives in the Cheshire countryside near Knutsford. [1] [8]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jill Dando</span> English journalist and television presenter (1961–1999)

Jill Wendy Dando was an English journalist, television presenter and newsreader. She spent most of her career at the BBC and was the corporation's Personality of the Year in 1997. At the time of her death, her television work included co-presenting the BBC One programme Crimewatch with Nick Ross.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zoe Ball</span> British television and radio personality

Zoe Louise Ball is a British radio and television presenter. She was the first female host of the Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast shows for the BBC, and presented the 1990s children's show Live & Kicking, alongside Jamie Theakston from 1996–1999.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sian Williams</span> Welsh journalist and television presenter

Sian Mary Williams is a Welsh journalist, current affairs presenter, and psychologist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sophie Raworth</span> English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster (born 1968)

Sophie Jane Raworth is an English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster working for the BBC. She is a senior newsreader and is one of the main presenters of BBC News. She has been a television presenter for state occasions and has also presented the BBC's Election Night coverage, alongside other presenters.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edith Bowman</span> Scottish radio DJ and television presenter

Edith Eleanor Bowman is a Scottish radio DJ and television presenter. She hosted Colin and Edith, weekday afternoons, weekend breakfast, and The Radio 1 Review on BBC Radio 1 until 2014 and has presented a variety of music-related television shows and music festivals. Since 2020, Bowman has hosted the annual Scottish Music Awards ceremony.

Penelope Jane Smith is an English author, television presenter, newsreader and radio presenter. She has presented for Sky News, GMTV, Classic FM, BBC Radio London, TalkRadio and is a regular contributor to TalkTV launched in April 2022. Smith is a current presenter of the weekday mid-morning show on Scala Radio and credits her favourite classical composer as Giacomo Puccini.

William Robert Jolyon Turnbull was a television and radio presenter and journalist whose broadcasting career spanned over 4 decades. He began his career working for some radio stations including Radio Clyde and BBC Radio 4's Today. He presented BBC News 24 and BBC Radio 5 Live before taking on his most notable role as one of the main presenters of BBC Breakfast, a position he held for 15 years between 2001 and 2016. Later in his career, he presented the religious series Songs of Praise and game show Think Tank, as well as being a presenter on the radio station Classic FM.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louise Minchin</span> British journalist and news presenter

Louise Mary Minchin is a British television presenter, journalist and former news presenter who currently works freelance within the BBC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anita Rani</span> British broadcaster and journalist

Anita Rani Nazran, better known as Anita Rani, is a British radio and television presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susanna Reid</span> English television presenter (born 1970)

Susanna Reid is an English television presenter and journalist. She was a co-presenter of BBC Breakfast from 2001 until 2014 alongside Bill Turnbull and Charlie Stayt. In 2013, she finished as a runner-up on the eleventh series of Strictly Come Dancing with Kevin Clifton. Since 2014, Reid has been the lead presenter of the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain alongside Ben Shephard, Kate Garraway and formerly Piers Morgan and now Ed Balls. She also presented Sunday Morning Live on BBC One from 2010 to 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carol Kirkwood</span> Scottish weather presenter

Carol Kirkwood is a Scottish weather presenter, trained by the Met Office, and employed by the BBC, on BBC Breakfast. In 2015, she participated in the 13th series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, finishing in 10th place.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rick Edwards</span> British broadcaster

Richard Edwards is an English television presenter, journalist, and author. Edwards presented T4 for four years, and has also presented Tool Academy, Freshly Squeezed, E4 Music, and much of Channel 4's 2012 Paralympics coverage. Edwards also hosts the "Fighting Talk" radio show on BBC Radio 5 Live. As a journalist, he has written for The Observer, the Evening Standard and HuffPost. From 2017 to 2021, he presented the BBC quiz show Impossible, and since November 2021 he has co-hosted the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show, usually alongside Rachel Burden.

Catriona Shearer is a Scottish broadcast journalist and producer, who was a presenter on BBC Scotland's national news programme Reporting Scotland.

Sophie Rebecca Long is an English journalist who works for BBC News, mainly appearing as a presenter on the BBC News Channel.

Shelagh Fogarty is a radio and television presenter and journalist. She presents the afternoon programme on LBC, having previously co-hosted the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show with Nicky Campbell.

Gemma Cairney is an English television and radio presenter best known for her work on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 6 Music. She most recently presented The Leisure Society on BBC Radio 6 Music where she interviewed cultural icons including Goldie, Tracey Emin, Kelley Deal, Laurie Vincent from Slaves and Cosey Fanni Tutti. Previously she co-hosted The Surgery alongside Radha Modgil. She has also presented Gemma Cairney on BBC Radio 1 weekends 7 am – 10 am and later weekdays 4 am – 6:30 am, switching with Dev. More recently she has regularly covered for Lauren Laverne, Mary Ann Hobbs, Chris Hawkins, Steve Lamacq, Cerys Matthews and Craig Charles on BBC Radio 6 Music. Cairney is also an Oxfam ambassador.

Anna Foster is an English radio news reporter and presenter, she presented the drivetime programme on 5 Live Monday to Friday.

Rachel Horne is a Northern Irish newsreader and journalist. She presented the BBC children's news programme Newsround from 2002 until 2006. She also presented BBC News' business bulletins on the BBC News Channel and travel news on weekday mornings on BBC Radio 2 in March to December 2018. She joined Virgin Radio UK as a breakfast show newsreader in January 2019. She has been married to comedian Alex Horne since 2005.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clara Amfo</span> British radio presenter

Clara Amfo is a British radio broadcaster, television presenter, podcast host and voice-over artist. She is known for presenting her shows on BBC Radio 1.

A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio 5 Live, and its predecessor BBC Radio 5.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "BBC's Rachel Burden - my new life in Knutsford". Cheshire Life. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "- YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  3. ↑ Bucks Free Press June 2015
  4. ↑ "Former Student Profile: Rachel Burden". Wycombe High School. 15 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "About Rachel Burden", bbc.co.uk. Accessed 9 November 2011
  6. ↑ "BBC presenter shares very rude note left on her 'tiny cr*p car". Wales Online. 15 September 2022.
  7. ↑ Williams, Sally. "BBC's Rachel Burden: I had a premature baby — then a pay gap battle". ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  8. ↑ "BBC Radio 5 Live's Rachel Burden from Chelford announces birth of her son, Henry". Knutsford Guardian. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.