Rachel Burden
{{Short description|British radio presenter}}
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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, Burden is the only daughter of former BBC journalist Paul Burden and his wife,{{Cite web|title=- YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEVOkCIGP-w|access-date=2021-02-23|website=www.youtube.com}} 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.[http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/13333497.Radio_5_live_presenter_to_return_to_former_school_to_speak_to_pupils/ Bucks Free Press June 2015]{{cite web| title=Former Student Profile: Rachel Burden | publisher=Wycombe High School| url=http://www.whs.bucks.sch.uk/media/news/article/74/Former-Student-Profile-Rachel-Burden| date=15 June 2015}} After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, she studied broadcast journalism at Cardiff University.
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.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/presenters/rachel-burden/ "About Rachel Burden"], bbc.co.uk. Accessed 9 November 2011 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/bbc-presenter-shares-very-rude-25022102|title=BBC presenter shares very rude note left on her 'tiny cr*p car|work=Wales Online|date=15 September 2022}}
In May 2025, Burden presented VE Day 80: We Were There; a BBC2 documentary which was part of the BBC's VE Day 80th anniversary celebrative programming.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bm1mw|title=VE Day 80: We Were There|website=bbc.co.uk/programmes|accessdate=7 May 2025}}
Personal life
Burden is married to journalist Luke Mendham and has four children.{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Sally |title=BBC's Rachel Burden: I had a premature baby — then a pay gap battle |newspaper=The Times |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/i-had-a-premature-baby-then-a-battle-7350hb3cx |access-date=2022-04-23 |issn=0140-0460}} The family lives in the Cheshire countryside near Knutsford.{{cite news|title=BBC's Rachel Burden - my new life in Knutsford|url=http://www.cheshirelife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/bbc_s_rachel_burden_my_new_life_in_knutsford_1_3453027|date=20 March 2014|work=Cheshire Life|accessdate=26 February 2015}}{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 5 Live's Rachel Burden from Chelford announces birth of her son, Henry |url=https://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news/14354677.bbc-radio-5-lives-rachel-burden-from-chelford-announces-birth-of-her-son-henry/ |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=Knutsford Guardian |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=7030370|name=Rachel Burden}}
- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070htg 5 Live Breakfast] (BBC Radio 5 Live)
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Category:Alumni of Cardiff University
Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Category:BBC Radio 5 Live presenters
Category:British radio personalities
Category:Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom