Everything about Robin Burke totally explained
Robin Burke (born
26 June 1983, Cheshire, England) is a British
radio presenter, who currently presents the early breakfast show at
Virgin Radio (Mon-Fri 4-6am) alongside working at
Channel 4 as a television continuity announcer, Robin lives in North
London.
Career
This biography is featured on the Virgin Radio website;
One of the youngest presenters on national radio, Robin Burke had risen though the ranks of student radio and landed himself a slot at one of the highest profile radio stations in the land ' Virgin Radio ' by the tender age of twenty.
It was a school trip to Oxford's
Oxygen FM aged fourteen, which whetted Robin's, appetite for a life on the airwaves. The journey to fulfilling this ambition started one hot summer's day ' when instead of revising for his annual school exams he decided to go and knock on the door at Oxford's local radio station;
Oxygen FM.
After turning up so many times they couldn't turn him away again, Robin landed himself a valuable stint of work experience which saw him go from helping to produce other DJs to landing the Weekend Breakfast Show for himself.
His next move, aged just sixteen, was to regional, commercial station Fox FM presenting the coveted 7-10pm evening slot 'The Interactive Juke Box', whilst still studying full time for three A-Levels.
Having commenced a BA in Film Studies, it was during a lecture on camera training that he received a voicemail from
Virgin Radio Programme Director Paul Jackson.
Since starting on
Virgin Radio in
March 2002, Robin has covered Weekend Overnights and
Virgin Radio's Most Wanted Show. So far Robin has interviewed bands including The
Kaiser Chiefs,
The Fray and uber-babe
Jordan whilst enjoying the high-life of film premieres and show biz parties. He is one of the industries rising stars and will no doubt dominate the airwaves for years to come.
Other work
Alongside Virgin Radio, Robin has recently hosted the
Hit40UK on American radio network
Worldspace, and regular podcasts for
Napster and Aloud.com. He is also the voice of
Film4 and occasionally
Channel 4.
Current work
Robin now works as a DJ at Virgin Radio. He used to present the 10pm-2am Friday and Saturday evening show, and Sunday Night 6-10pm. Before that he presented the overnight show Tuesday-Friday 1am-4am, and weekend breakfast 6-9am. He has also presented Party Classics and Sunday Mornings 12am-2am. He took over Virgin's early breakfast show Monday-Friday 4-6am, from Monday 7th January.
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