John Pienaar

John is one of Britain’s best-connected and most highly respected journalists, spending nearly three decades at the BBC before joining Times Radio’s Drive programme as presenter in 2020. 

John’s BBC career began in 1992 as a political reporter. He went on to become BBC Deputy Political Editor and presenter of several TV and radio shows including Pienaar’s Politics on Radio 5Live. 

Before the BBC John was a political correspondent at The Independent, the Press Association and The Guardian. John trained at the South London Press before becoming its Old Bailey Correspondent.