Career
Want has worked for Manchester radio stations Piccadilly Radio and Key 103. She has been a radio host for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Manchester for over 5 years where she presents the weekday afternoon show on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Manchester. She also presents Becky Want"s Retail Therapy, a Saturday morning show broadcast.
Becky was a features presenter on the North West regional news magazine programme Granada Tonight in the early 1990s on Manchester based Independent Television station Granada Television.
Want has also been a face on "What"s New" alongside Tony Wilson,"Traveller"s Check" with Stuart Hall (presenter), "Livetime", "Psychic Livetime" and "Predictions" for satellite station Granada Breeze. She has worked for Independent Television"s "Livetalk" and "Which Way".
On the British Broadcasting Corporation she has presented Inside Out North West for British Broadcasting Corporation North West and features on Channel M"s "Moving Manchester". She also starred in a Beryl Bainbridge production on British Broadcasting Corporation One
She is an ambassador for the Prince"s trust She ran the London Marathon in 2010 for Manchester"s Christie Hospital and in 2011 she ran the Great Manchester Run for the same charity.
She is listed as a key supporter of the Moore Foundation.