Private Pike Private Pike Private Frank Pike is a fictional Home Guard private and junior bank clerk; he was appointed as the platoon's information officer by Captain Mainwaring in The Man and the Hour. He is frequently referred to by Captain Mainwaring as "stupid boy". In the BBC television sitcom "Dad's Army" he was portrayed by Ian Lavender. Pike was born in 1922, and is the youngest of the Walmington-on-Sea platoon. Aged 17 when the series begins, he is not old enough to join the army, although presumably he has reached, or is nearing, his 18th birthday when he is about to
Rebecca Pike Rebecca Pike Rebecca Pike is a British journalist currently Head of Digital Media at Liberty Global. Previously she worked as Radio and TV business presenter for the BBC. Pike attended Bedales School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Pike started her career at the "Express and Star" in Wolverhampton before moving to the "Daily Telegraph". She joined the BBC as a News Trainee. She then became a business and economics reporter for the BBC. She has worked as a reporter on a number of radio and TV news programmes, including the "Today" programme, Radio 4's