Adam Fleming

Adam Fleming presents Newscast, the UK’s most-listened to daily podcast, and its spin-off TV show on BBC One on Thursday nights. He also hosts Radio 4’s weekly deep dive into the culture wars, AntiSocial.

He made a radio documentary series about the rise and fall of Boris Johnson. He presents the Radio 4 series Brexit: A Guide for the Perplexed and regularly stands in for Evan Davis on PM.

He recently published his first book 50 Democracy Ideas You Really Need to Know with Quercus, an imprint of Hachette.

Previously he was the BBC’s Chief Political Correspondent, bringing news from Westminster to millions of listeners, viewers and readers every morning. He broke scoop after scoop about the Brexit negotiations as Brussels Correspondent, when he also created the hit podcast Brexitcast. He reported for the BBC’s Daily Politics programme. His first job was presenting Newsround on CBBC.

Adam studied Geography at Hertford College, Oxford and Broadcast Journalism at City University.

He won Celebrity Mastermind with the James Bond films of Roger Moore as his specialist subject and reached the final of the graduate edition of University Challenge.