Christopher Ernest John Warburton (born 15 December 1976) is a British radio and podcast presenter who works for BBC Radio 5 Live. He presented the news and technology programme ''Saturday Edition'' on the station until October 2014, and since then has presented Saturday Breakfast alongside

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and Sunday Breakfast, originally alongside Sam Walker, from 6am to 9am on both days. In addition, Warburton presented ''In Short'', the best of BBC Radio 5 Live programme from 2013 to 2018. He has also covered for presenters on

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and ''

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'' on

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. Prior to this he presented the breakfast show on

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Education

Warburton was educated at Warden Park School in

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. He then went to the

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and the

Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) ( cy, Ysgol Newyddiaduriaeth, y Cyfryngau ac Astudiaethau Diwylliannol, Caerdydd) is Cardiff University's school for training in media. It is one of the journalism schools wh ...

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 iTunes chart for six weeks. It won Silver in the

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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

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led cult in

Waco Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the st ...

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concentrating on the

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. It won Bronze in the

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,

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and starring

Ade Edmondson Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He was part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s and had roles in the television series '' The Young Ones'' (1 ...

Meera Syal Meera Syal FRSL (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961) is a English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created '' Goodness Gracious Me'' and portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, ...

David Morrissey David Mark Joseph Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. Described by the British Film Institute as "one of the most versatile English actors of his generation", he is noted for the meticulous preparation and research h ...

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and

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. The soundtrack was by The Hacienda legend

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newspaper named the podcast in the top ten of 2020. Warburton has broadcast live and presented programmes from two

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s, the

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and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, 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 es ...

, the

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, the

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, the

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, 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

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, live from

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. 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 ''

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'' on

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. 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,

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. 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 ''

'' on

. One film focused on life changing brain surgery his father was undergoing for

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Criticism

Warburton's speech patterns have been criticised by ''

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s radio critic

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References

External links

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''Saturday Breakfast''
(BBC Radio 5 Live)
''Sunday Breakfast''
(BBC Radio 5 Live) {{DEFAULTSORT:Warburton, Chris 1976 births Living people People educated at Warden Park School Alumni of Cardiff University Alumni of the University of Leicester BBC Radio 5 Live presenters British radio presenters People associated with true crime People from Cuckfield