Julian Worricker

Julian Worricker
Worricker in 2022
Born
Julian Gordon Worricker

(1963-01-06) 6 January 1963 (age 61)
Woking, Surrey, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationJournalist/news presenter
Years active1985–present

Julian Gordon Worricker (born 6 January 1963 in Woking, Surrey) is an English journalist, currently working as one of the main presenters of Weekend on the BBC World Service, as stand-in presenter of Any Answers on BBC Radio 4, and as a relief presenter on The Media Show which is also seen on BBC News, the corporation's 24-hour rolling news channel. He also presented You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 until leaving in October 2013.

Worricker was educated at Epsom College in Surrey; he went on to study English literature at the University of Leicester. 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 rejoined Radio Leicester as News Editor. In 1991, he moved to join the newly launched 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 before presenting Five Live Breakfast alongside Victoria Derbyshire. He then moved to television in February 2003 presenting The News Show on BBC Three before returning to Five Live as presenter of the mid-morning show from July 2003 (taking over from Fi Glover) until July 2004, when he left to become a relief presenter for BBC News. He has also presented the BBC Radio 4 obituary programme Last Word.[1]

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 5 Live and BBC News in order to go travelling around the world.[2] He suffers from psoriatic arthritis.[3] In 2020, he shielded during the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

He can be heard presenting Weekend on the BBC World Service most Saturday and Sunday mornings.

  1. ^ "BBC – Press Office – BBC THREE News and Current Affairs programmes". BBC. 23 January 2003. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  2. ^ Worricker to take break from broadcasting[dead link‍] Times Online.
  3. ^ Worricker, Julian (22 June 2016). "Diagnosed with arthritis in your 30s". BBC News.
  4. ^ Worricker, Julian (14 May 2020). "While the rest of Britain gets moving again, I'm condemned to lockdown". The Telegraph.