• About

    Rick Edwards

    Writer and broadcaster Rick Edwards is the co-host of the BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast Show and presenter of the networks hugely popular Fighting Talk. He has covered major sporting events including the UK Athletics Championships, Wimbledon, The Hundred, the World Cup and the Euros 2024. He presents the F1 podcast The Inside Track alongside matt Majendie. 

    Rick’s numerous entertainment credits as a TV host include eight series of BBC One’s smash hit daytime quiz !mpossible, three series of the cult hit Tool Academy for E4, the iconic Made in Chelsea End of Season shows and ITV2’s comedy roast show Safeword. Internationally he hosted The Courtship for NBC and Peacock. He has also done extensive work in the factual space, fronting Sky History’s successful archaeology show River Hunters and Fatberg Autopsy for Channel 4, BBC Three’s live current affairs debate show Free Speech, Channel 4’s Paralympic Breakfast Show and the YouTube Originals show The Edge Of Science. 

  • He presented the award-winning podcast Science(ish) with Dr Michael Brooks and the pop culture science offering Eureka!. 

    Rick’s first book, None Of The Above, was published in the run up to the 2015 General Election by Simon & Schuster and focused on the basics of the political process in the UK. Alongside Dr Michael Brooks he is co-author of Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind The Movies (2017), a Sunday Times Book Of The Year, and Hollywood Wants To Kill You (2019) both published by Atlantic. He is also a screenwriter. 

    Rick began his career on the standup circuit after graduating with a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. Amongst his other interests are the environment and backgammon. 

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