Christopher Ernest John Warburton (born 15 December 1976) is a British radio and podcast presenter who works for

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. He presented the news and technology programme ''Saturday Edition'' on the station until October 2014, and since then has presented Saturday Breakfast alongside Eleanor Oldroyd and Sunday Breakfast, originally alongside Sam Walker, from 6am to 9am on both days. In addition, Warburton presented ''In Short'', the best of

programme from 2013 to 2018. He has also covered for presenters on BBC Radio 6 Music and '' You and Yours'' on BBC Radio 4. Prior to this he presented the breakfast show on BBC Radio Wiltshire.

Education

Warburton was educated at

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, West Sussex. He then went to the University of Leicester and the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

Radio career

Warburton presented the BBC true crime podcast ''Beyond Reasonable Doubt'', which followed the criminal trial of Michael Peterson. The podcast was number one in the UK

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chart for six weeks. It won Silver in the True Crime category at the British Podcast Awards in 2018. Warburton hosts the BBC podcast ''End of Days'', which tells the story of the British people who joined the David Koresh led cult in Waco Texas concentrating on the Waco siege. It won Bronze in the True Crime category at the British Podcast Awards in 2019. In September 2020, Warburton released the BBC podcast, '‘Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave’', which tells the tale of when

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and

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first swept Britain. The production is split into half real life and half fiction, with a series of monologues written by the BAFTA winning screenwriter, Danny Brocklehurst and starring Ade Edmondson, Meera Syal, David Morrissey, Monica Dolan and Ian Hart. The soundtrack was by The Hacienda legend Graeme Park (DJ). The Observer newspaper named the podcast in the top ten of 2020. Warburton has broadcast live and presented programmes from two FIFA World Cups, the

2012 London Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

and

2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

, the Paris terror attacks, the

Grenfell Tower fire On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. 72 people died, two later in hospital, with more than 70 injured and 223 escapin ...

, the British Grand Prix, the Grand National, the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the

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and the US Presidential election. On 10 May 2015, Warburton presented coverage from the Service of Thanksgiving to mark the 70th anniversary of VE Day, live from Westminster Abbey. On 2 June 2015, Warburton was involved in a world first, when he reported 'as live' throughout the duration of a heart transplant operation. This won the award for Best Factual Production at the BBC Radio Awards.

Television work

Warburton has presented a number of films for '' The One Show'' on BBC One. In June 2015, Warburton featured in series one of the

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TV comedy, '' Hoff the Record''. He played a radio presenter opposite the show's star, David Hasselhoff. On 29 December 2015, he came second in ''

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'' with his specialist subject being Reeves & Mortimer. As of November 2018, Warburton became a reporter for '' The One Show'' on BBC One. One film focused on life changing brain surgery his father was undergoing for Essential tremor.

Criticism

Warburton's speech patterns have been criticised by '' The Telegraphs radio critic Gillian Reynolds .

References

External links

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''Saturday Breakfast''
(BBC Radio 5 Live)
''Sunday Breakfast''
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