Rob Burley was born on 1969 and is an English television producer, formerly the BBC's editor of live political programmes.
10 Facts About Rob Burley
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Rob Burley was the editor of The Andrew Marr Show, Politics Live, Newscast on television, Newswatch and The Westminster Hour.
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Rob Burley obtained a degree in American studies from the University of Nottingham.
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Rob Burley began his career as a researcher for the Labour Party member of Parliament Paul Flynn.
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Rob Burley joined the BBC in 2008 and became executive editor of Question Time, deputy editor of Newsnight and assistant editor of BBC Breakfast.
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The role was based in Westminster and led Rob Burley to take responsibility for the programmes Daily Politics, Sunday Politics, This Week, The Westminster Hour and Newswatch.
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When Daily Politics ended in 2018, Rob Burley became editor of Politics Live, and later editor of The Andrew Neil Show and executive producer of the podcast Brexitcast on television.
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Rob Burley said he had "zero shame" about the episode and that they had "invited people and they said yes and then we realised our best line-up was all female".
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Brian and Margaret, a two-part television drama based on Rob Burley's book, covering Brian Walden's 1989 interview of Margaret Thatcher, was commissioned in June 2024.
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In 2022, Rob Burley joined Global as executive editor of Andrew Marr's LBC programme Tonight with Andrew Marr.