Background
The fourth of five children, she is the only daughter of former British Broadcasting Corporation journalist Paul Burden and his wife, and the niece of the actor Hugh Burden.
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Rachel Burden
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Trinity College.
Career
After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, she studied broadcast journalism at Cardiff University. Burden began her career as a reporter at British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Suffolk, and 15 months later joined British Broadcasting Corporation 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, the day before her father retired from the British Broadcasting Corporation. She took over the weekday breakfast show from Shelagh Fogarty in May 2011, alongside current co-presenter Nicky Campbell.
Burden made her debut on the British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast television programme as a relief presenter on Saturday 23 August 2015.
Burden is married to a male journalist. The family live in the countryside surrounding Knutsford, Cheshire.
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