Rachel Burden

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Rachel Mary Burden (born 1975 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England), is a British-born Irish national, who is a radio news reporter and presenter, currently presenting the BBC Radio 5 Live weekday breakfast show.

The daughter of former BBC journalist Paul Burden,[1][2] and the niece of the actor, Hugh Burden. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Burden began her radio career as a reporter at BBC Radio Suffolk later she joined Radio Bristol, where she co-hosted the early morning breakfast show, working alongside Nigel Dando, the brother of the murdered presenter Jill Dando. She joined Radio 5 Live in 2003.[3] She took over the weekday breakfast show from Shelagh Fogarty in May 2011, alongside current weekday presenter Nicky Campbell.

Burden is married and has three children.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEVOkCIGP-w
  2. ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8rum6BJOSbsJ:www.normanphillips.co.uk/paul_burden.htm+paul+burden&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
  3. ↑ "About Rachel Burden", bbc.co.uk. Accessed 9 November 2011

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