Rebecca Pike

Rebecca Pike

Rebecca Pike is a business and economics correspondent for the BBC. She has worked as a reporter on a number of Radio and TV news programmes, including the "Today programme", Radio 4’s "Six o’clock News", Radio Five Live, BBC 1’s TV news bulletins and BBC News 24.

Pike attended Bedales School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

She is half Chinese.

She started her career at the "Express and Star" in Wolverhampton before moving to the "Daily Telegraph". She became the business presenter on the BBC Radio 2 Drivetime Show in 2006. Nicknamed Foxy (the "Business Fox"), she is on air with Chris Evans from Monday to Friday for her two daily slots at 5.30pm and 6.30pm.

Rebecca co-presented the [http://www.radioawards.org/ Sony Radio Academy Awards] nominations ceremony in 2008.

Fox the Fox

The Drivetime Show features her popular "Fox the Fox" feature in which Pike is given a question submitted by a listener and provides her answer at the end of her second business news section one hour later. The theme tune of the slot is "Outfox the Fox", featuring Danny Kaye.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/evans/ BBC Radio2 Drivetime page]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/evans/biog_rebecca.shtml Rebecca Pike's biography]


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