John Inverdale

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John Inverdale (born in Plymouth, England in 1957) is an English radio and television broadcaster who works for the BBC.

Inverdale was educated at Clifton College in Bristol and at the University of Southampton, where he read history. He began his career with the Lincolnshire Echo and then joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire in 1982. He began to work on the BBC's national radio stations in 1985, firstly on Radio 2, then from 1988 to 1994 at Radio 5, where he presented the flagship sports programme Sport On 5. In 1994 he became one of the main regular presenters on the relaunched Radio Five Live. He presented the drivetime show John Inverdale Nationwide until 1997, for which he was named Sony Broadcaster of the Year in 1997.

Inverdale is a sports enthusiast and has headed Five Live's coverage of such events as Wimbledon, the Olympic Games, the football and rugby World Cups, the Ryder Cup, The Open Championship and the London Marathon. As Radio Five Live is the dominant sports radio station in the UK, this makes him probably the UK's most prominent radio sports broadcaster.

Inverdale has also worked regularly for BBC Television. He became the BBC's main Rugby Union anchor in the 2006 Six Nations Championships following the departure of Steve Rider. He has also fronted countless television shows such as the sports chat show On Side, Rugby Special, the investigative sports series On The Line, Grandstand, Sunday Grandstand and The World's Strongest Man and has become the main frontman for the Sport Relief Mile, presenting the 2004 event where he conducted the first ever joint live interviews with Prince William and Prince Harry, on Grandstand. In 2006, he presented the Sport Relief Mile show, live from the London's Embankment on BBC One. He has also stood in for Johnnie Walker on his BBC Radio 2 show.

Inverdale now lives in Kingston, Surrey