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.

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]

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.
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