Rhod Sharp

Rhoderick Sharp (born 1953 in Perth) is a Scottish broadcaster, best known as a former presenter of Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Early life After being educated at Perth Academy, Sharp took a degree in English at the University of Aberdeen. Graduating with honours in 1975, he was selected as scholar of the St Andrews Society of New York, and then studied for a Masters at Princeton University combining literature, theatre and politics. In 1987 he moved with his wife to London as a reporter for the BBC World Service, then as duty foreign editor at Channel 4 News. from 2007 he presented the show from a home studio within the couple's 18th-century property. Broadcasting from the United States made Sharp "pretty unique" among BBC radio hosts, according to the then BBC deputy news director Stephen Mitchell.

Personal life Whilst broadcasting from San Francisco in the early 1980s, Sharp met his future wife Vicki Staveacre. The couple moved to London in the 1980s, where Sharp later created Up All Night. Following 9/11, the couple took a two-month sabbatical in Harvard, Massachusetts. On forays to North Shore, they became enamoured with Marblehead. In 2004, they bought a small apartment in the seaside town, and in 2007 moved to their present home, an 18th-century house in Marblehead's Old Town section.

Sharp is the President of the University of Aberdeen USA Trust, and as of 2012 was intending to apply for US citizenship.