Julian Worricker

Who is Julian Worricker?

Julian Worricker is a British journalist, currently working as a presenter of Any Answers on BBC Radio 4 and a relief presenter on BBC News, the corporation's 24 hour rolling news channel. Until September 2006, he presented a Sunday morning current affairs programme on BBC Radio 5 Live. He also presented You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 until leaving in October 2013.

Worricker was educated at Epsom College; he went on to study English literature at the University of Leicester. He is 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 programme, 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.