Brian Alexander (broadcaster)

Brian Alexander (born 9 April 1957) is an experienced British broadcaster who is regularly to be heard on BBC Radio Five Live in the UK and on the BBC World Service. He hosted the Radio Five programmes "Late Night Live" and "Weekend Breakfast" and launched and presented "Sportsweek" on the same network. He now presents the BBC's "Sport Specials". His stand-out extended InterViews have included Jonny Wilkinson, Sepp Blatter, Joey Barton, Thaksin Shinawatra, while he has also researched and presented investigations into right-wing football violence in eastern Europe, corruption in Italian football, gambling in tennis and the young African boys who are abandoned in Europe after being conned by agents.

During an 18-year career in Fleet Street, Brian worked for nine different national papers. In addition to working on The Sun, Brian was also Sports Editor of the Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard.

After a long career in newspaper journalism, Brian began presenting programmes for the BBC in 1996, beginning with The Back Page on Five Live before moving on to present the sports bulletins on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

He then launched and presented two popular Five Live shows: "Sportsweek" on Sunday mornings and "Papertalk" on Friday evenings. He won a Gold at the Sony Radio Awards for Magazine Programme of the Year in 1997.

After hosting both shows for two years, Brian took over "Late Night Live", making the transition from sport to news and current affairs.

He presented "Weekend Breakfast" in late 2001 on BBC Radio Five Live until 2006.

He also has plenty of television experience. He presented "The Lion's Den" on BBC 1 in March 1999, interviewing previous England football managers Bobby Robson, Graham Taylor, Terry Venables and Glenn Hoddle prior to Kevin Keegan's first match in charge.

He also presented "Sunday Turnstyle" on Channel 5 for 12 months and "Sportspage" on cable network Channel One.

Brian also writes regularly for national newspapers and is Editor of the lifestyle magazine Exclusively.