John Pienaar

Pienaar will move to present the drivetime programme on the upcoming Times Radio station later in 2020. He said he was "excited to be part of the newest digital venture under the oldest and greatest title in journalism". Pienaar was the first major signing to Times Radio, which will launch as a direct competitor to BBC Radio 4.

In 2002, he became Chief Political Correspondent at Radio 5 Live, and presented a Sunday morning programme, Pienaar's Politics. He also hosted Question Time Extra Time (a radio supplement to BBC One's Question Time) alongside Stephen Nolan. and served as a stand-in host on BBC Two's Daily Politics. From 2015-2020 he was the BBC's deputy political editor.

Pienaar began his career in journalism at the South London Press, before becoming an Old Bailey correspondent. He was then a political correspondent at The Independent, the Press Association, The Guardian, and from 1992 the BBC, on a range of TV and radio news and current affairs programmes.

Pienaar married Denise Walsh in 1980 and they had a son and a daughter. They divorced and Pienaar married Penny Davies, with whom he has two daughters.

John Adrian Pienaar (born 2 October 1956) is a British journalist who currently works for Times Radio, previously rising to prominence as deputy political editor for BBC News.