Rebecca Pike

Just before Easter, 2006, I got the call. “Can you come to Radio 2 and audition to be the Business Presenter on Chris Evans’ new show?”

And so began an amazing adventure which – would you believe it – is still going strong after all these years.

It wasn’t the most obvious place to land. Ever since someone first asked me what I wanted to do, the answer has been "a journalist" – and by that I meant a hard-bitten war correspondent in combat trousers and army fatigues.

Little did I know I would end up presenting in a bikini in a hot-tub or trying to conduct an interview while being bitten on the arm by Bono.

It was several years though, before I was waylaid. At school I edited a rather earnest magazine and at Oxford University I set up a Time Out-style listings guide with friends.

I then worked as a reporter at the Express and Star newspaper in Wolverhampton and the Daily Telegraph in London, before joining the BBC as a News Trainee.

Since then I’ve worked as a producer on many of the BBC’s news outlets, and as a business reporter on the Today Programme and Six O’clock News on Radio 4, Breakfast News, the News Channel and BBC 1’s TV bulletins.

I’ve also done a stint as the main presenter on Radio Five Live’s Wake up to Money programme.

I’m married with a young son and daughter, live in London, and my favourite pastimes are big Sunday lunches with friends and watching the latest HBO series on TV.

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