Garry Richardson

Garry Richardson
Born	1956/1957 (age 60–61)
Show	Sportsweek
Station(s)	BBC Radio 5 Live
Time slot	9.00–10.00 GMT/BST Sundays
Show	Today
Station(s)	BBC Radio 4
Country	United Kingdom
Spouse(s)	1
Children	3
Website	Simon Mayo Drivetime Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Garry Richardson (born 1957) is a British radio presenter. He presents the Sunday morning sports programme Sportsweek on BBC Radio 5 Live and is also a sports presenter on the weekday morning Today show on BBC Radio 4.

Garry Richardson began his broadcasting career with BBC Radio Oxford. He had previously been a youth player at Reading and Southampton football clubs but quickly realised that he was unlikely to become a professional footballer.

He gave his first sports report on national radio in 1981 as a 'cub' reporter, introduced by Today's co-presenter Brian Redhead for the match between Nottingham Forest and Manchester United. Under the tutorship of Tony Adamson, Bryon Butler and the commentator Peter Jones, Richardson rose to become the regular sports reporter on the show, a role he has assumed for over 20 years.

Richardson also presents the Sunday morning sports programme Sportsweek on BBC Radio 5 Live BBC podcasts. He is known for presenting the show with a slightly aggressive and direct interview style, with the hope of gaining valuable information from his guests. He has stated that he believes in asking the same question three times if he has not received a response, a style also favoured by fellow journalists Jeremy Paxman and John Humphrys. He does however gather to get interviews from a wide range of sources (football) and regularly has guests from the national press as his co-host/soundboard.

The show won a Sony Gold Award in 2007 for Best Sports Programme. The show was nominated in the same category in the 2009 awards but lost out to 5 Live's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics (Olympic Breakfast (gold) and Olympic Sportsworld (bronze)) and also The Football Forum (silver).

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