Rick Edwards

Writer and broadcaster Rick Edwards is the co-host of the award winning BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast Show and presenter of the networks hugely popular Fighting Talk.

He has covered the UK Athletics Championships, Wimbledon, the World Cup and the Euros.

Rick’s numerous entertainment credits as presenter 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.

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. Rick is host of NBC’s The Courtship, the Regency England style dating format, airing on Peacock and the USA Network.

He actively campaigns for youth engagement in politics and voting and, in 2014, delivered a hugely successful TEDx Houses Of Parliament talk offering some solutions to get more young people to vote.

His first book, None Of The Above, was subsequently published in March 2015 by Simon & Schuster focusing 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. Rick also hosts the podcast Science(ish) alongside Dr Michael Brooks which delves into the science behind popular films.

As a writer, Rick’s original film Burger Van Champion was commissioned as part of C4’s Coming Up strand in 2013 and was described by the Observer as ‘a remarkable debut’ and by Time Out as ‘funny, touching [and] superbly written’.

Rick Edwards contributes regularly to the Evening Standard and Huffington Post. Amongst his other interests are the environment (he is a regular on the Observer Ethical Awards judging panel), backgammon (he recently competed in an international tournament in Copenhagen), football (he is an ever-optimistic Liverpool fan).

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