Louise Minchin - Broadcasting Career

Broadcasting Career

Louise has worked for the Latin American section of the BBC World Service during a year in Argentina, the Today programme, Five and various local radio stations. In 2006 she toured the country in a converted bus meeting England fans as part of the World Cup coverage for BBC News.

She started work for Radio 5 Live in 1998, where she presented many of the main programmes including Drive and Breakfast. Between September 2003 and April 2012, she was a regular BBC News channel presenter, initially working alongside Jon Sopel from 7pm-10pm. Minchin then presented from 2pm-5pm with Sopel. She shared this shift with Emily Maitlis. In 2006-07, she covered for Kate Silverton as relief presenter on BBC Breakfast, while she in turn was covering for main anchor Sian Williams. When Williams returned Minchin continued to appear on the programme, where she is now the main presenter on Thursdays - Saturdays with Charlie Stayt. She was also one of the main relief presenters for the BBC News at One until April 2012.

Louise along with Colin Jackson presents the Sunday morning show Sunday Life on BBC One.

From 21 April 2008 Louise presented a weekday programme called Missing Live along with Rav Wilding. The programme was shown at 9:15am after BBC Breakfast on BBC One and ran for 4 weeks.

The show returned for a second 4 week run from 16 March 2009, and again in March 2010, highlighting both new cases and those previously featured with updates.

Also, from 2 November 2009, Louise presented four weeks of live broadcasts of 'Real Rescues' along with Nick Knowles.

Minchin also presented In the Know, a BBC sports magazine programme on Saturday mornings on BBC One during the 2004 Athens Olympics alongside co-presenter John Inverdale.

In April 2010 Minchin co-presented The One Show for a week alongside Chris Hollins while regular hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley were unavailable. She covered again when the show returned in July 2010 for two weeks alongside Matt Baker and one episode with Matt Allwright.

From July 2010 until April 2012 she became a weekend presenter of BBC Breakfast due to Susanna Reid leaving to present Sunday Morning Live.

On 12 December 2011 it was announced that Minchin would become a main presenter of BBC Breakfast when the programme moves to Manchester.

Minchin and Gethin Jones present documentary series Crime and Punishment, which began on BBC One on 12 March 2012.

Minchin described the hanging of Saddam Hussein as the "biggest stories of the century".

In November 2012 Peter Allen, the presenter of 5 Live's Drive programme, announced on air that Louise Minchin and Anna Foster will be replacing departing presenter Aasmah Mir, when Mir leaves the station in early November. Aasmah's final programme was on November 9th, and on November 12 Louise co-presented her first programe. She co-presents Monday and Tuesday, with Anna co-hosting Wednesday to Friday.