BBC Career Opportunities: Chief Presenter, 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live is the voice of the UK, home of live news, sport, and conversation that matters. It’s BBC Radio’s main outlet for breaking news, bringing its audience major news stories as they happen, and providing context with wide-ranging analysis and discussion. As co-presenter of 5 Live Breakfast, you’ll work alongside Naga Munchetty to deliver the station’s flagship news show five days a week from our Salford studios. A highly experienced broadcaster and journalist, you’ll help the station lead the day’s agenda, interrogating the big stories of the day, interviewing guests from across the news and sport spectrum, bringing a broad and deep knowledge of UK and global news, current affairs and sport. You’ll be able to engage, inform, and entertain audiences, appealing to news and sports fans of all ages and from all backgrounds and areas across the UK. 

WHY JOIN THE TEAM 

BBC Radio 5 Live is the home of live news and sport for the UK. It’s the BBC’s key outlet for breaking news, bringing the audience major stories as they happen, and providing context with wide-ranging analysis and discussion. Working alongside some of the biggest names in broadcasting this is an opportunity to help shape the future of the station’s flagship news programme and one of the UK’s best loved Breakfast shows. 5 Live is a station renowned for putting listeners at the heart of its output and this is your chance to experience and build on the unique relationship 5 Live has with its audience. Joining a hard-working, experienced editorial team that thrives on creativity, collaboration, and journalistic rigour, you’ll play a key broadcast role in shaping a programme delivering outstanding content for millions of people across the UK.