Sarah Macdonald (journalist)

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Sarah Macdonald (born 1966) is an Australian journalist, author and radio presenter, and has been associated with several ABC radio programs, including Triple J and Radio National. She is also known for her book Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure.

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Early life and education

Macdonald was born at Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney in 1966. [1] [2]

She studied psychology at university, before engaging in extensive travel. [1]

Career

After completing a cadetship at ABC NewsRadio, Macdonald worked as Triple J's political correspondent in Canberra, later hosting its morning show. [3] She worked on television programs such as Recovery (on air 1996–2000), Race Around the World (1997–1998) and Two Shot. [3]

In 2000, Macdonald left Triple J to live in New Delhi, [4] India, with her husband (ABC foreign correspondent Jonathan Harley) and wrote her first book, Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure (published 2002), [3] which proved to be a best-seller, [1] selling 75,000 copies. [4]

From 2005 Macdonald took over from Julie McCrossin as presenter of breakfast radio on ABC Radio Sydney, for a few months in late 2005. [4]

She has also written for numerous publications, and created and presented the Weekend Nightlife Show. [1]

From August 2016 to December 2018 Mcdonald co-presented a podcast, The Full Catastrophe, with author Rebecca Huntley, in which numerous people tell their own stories, including Larissa Behrendt, Frank Moorhouse, Jane Caro, and Susan Carland. [5] She co-presented an event called "The Full Catastrophe" at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne with Huntley in June 2018, with guests Maxine McKew, Sami Shah, Libbi Gorr, and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen. [6] [7]

As of May 2022 Macdonald was presenting Evenings on ABC Radio Sydney. [1]

In June 2023 she appeared as herself in five episodes of the BBC One comedy Queen of Oz. Throughout the series, Macdonald is seen and heard on her radio programme questioning the outrageous antics of spoiled spare to the British crown, Queen Georgiana, played by Catherine Tate.

Personal life

Mcdonald is married to journalist Jonathan Harley, whom she met in the 1990s. He worked on ABC's The 7:30 Report in 2005, when she was working on breakfast radio, at which time they had two children under three years old. [4]

Publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Sarah Macdonald". ABC Radio. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  2. ↑ Macdonald, Sarah; Wilcox, Cathy (2020), So ... you're having a teenager : an A-Z of adolescence from argumentative to zits [NLA catalogue entry], Murdoch Books, ISBN   978-1-76052-543-9
  3. 1 2 3 "Sarah Macdonald (ABC profile)". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 9 September 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Profile: Sarah MacDonald". Sydney Morning Herald . 30 October 2005. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "The Full Catastrophe". Apple Podcasts. 19 December 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "The Full Catastrophe". The Wheeler Centre. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  7. ↑ "Sarah Macdonald". The Wheeler Centre. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  8. ↑ "Come Away With Me by Sarah MacDonald". Penguin Books Australia. 1 December 2004. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  9. ↑ "Take Me With You by Sarah MacDonald". Penguin Books Australia. 1 December 2005. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
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