Julian Worricker

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Julian Worricker (born January 6, 1963 in Surrey)^[1] is a British journalist, currently working as a relief presenter on BBC News, the corporation's 24 hour rolling news channel. Until September 2006 he also presented a Sunday morning current affairs programme on BBC Radio Five Live.

Worricker was educated at Epsom College, he went on to study English literature at the University of Leicester. He was an only child.

He joined the BBC in 1985 as a staff reporter for BBC Radio Leicester before moving to Midlands Today as a TV presenter in 1988. In January 1989, he re-joined Radio Leicester as News Editor. In 1991, he moved to join the recently founded station Radio Five in Manchester, presenting the evening magazine program, Five Aside. He joined Five Live at its launch in 1994, initially as a newsreader and reporter, but was soon a regular presenter on Weekend Breakfast. In 1997 he became the presenter of Friday's Drivetime show, Nationwide. From 1998, he presented Five Live Breakfast alongside Victoria Derbyshire. He then moved to the mid-morning show from July 2003 (taking over from Fi Glover) until July 2004, when he moved to the Drive programme, which he later left to become a relief presenter for BBC News. In the summer of 2006, Worricker appeared on BBC Breakfast and in December 2006, he reported from Australia during The Ashes for the Breakfast programme on Five Live. From September 2002 until September 2007, he presented the current affairs programme Worricker on Sunday, which also included the 5 Live Report. In September 2007 Worricker decided to take a six month break from both Five Live and BBC News to go travelling around the world.^[2] He returned to BBC News in April 2008, though he has now been replaced by Gabby Logan on Five Live.