Rachel Mary Ann Cecilia Burden (born 22 January 1975 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England) is a newsreader, radio news reporter and presenter.
[3][4] After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, she studied broadcast journalism at Cardiff University.
[1] Burden began her career as a reporter at BBC Radio Suffolk, and 15 months later joined BBC Radio Bristol where she co-hosted the early morning breakfast show, working alongside Nigel Dando, the brother of murdered presenter Jill Dando.
[5] She took over the weekday breakfast show from Shelagh Fogarty in May 2011, alongside co-presenter Nicky Campbell.
Burden made her debut on the BBC Breakfast television programme as a relief presenter on Saturday 23 August 2015.