Anna Foster

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Anna Foster
Born1979 (age 44–45)
South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England
OccupationPresenter

Anna Foster (born 1979) is an English news reporter and presenter. She presented the drive time programme on 5 Live until 2021 and currently presents the BBC News at One and is the BBC's Middle East correspondent in Beirut.

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Early life and education

The daughter of a surveyor father (who also served as a magistrate) and a mother who worked as a nurse, she and her brother were born in South Shields. [1] [ dead link ] Educated in South Shields, while attending South Tyneside College doing her A-Levels, she worked as a Saturday girl on Metro Radio. She went on to study English at Collingwood College at Durham University, where she worked on student radio. She then undertook a postgraduate certificate in journalism at City University London. [1]

Career

On graduation she joined the BBC's trainee reporters scheme. She then joined BBC Radio Cleveland as a reporter for three years, before becoming a news presenter, and then co-presenting the drive-time show. She then joined BBC Radio 5 Live as a regional North East reporter, before relocating to London as a weekend news presenter, and also presenting on Newsbeat .

Foster joined the BBC Radio 5 Live Weekend Breakfast show on 23 April 2011, replacing Rachel Burden who moved to the weekday 5 Live Breakfast team alongside Nicky Campbell on 3 May. [2]

On 14 November 2012, Foster became the Wednesday-to-Friday co-presenter of 5 Live Drive (4–7 pm) alongside Peter Allen; Louise Minchin was the Monday and Tuesday co-host. Foster subsequently became the permanent co-host, alongside Tony Livesey who replaced Allen in October 2014.

Foster left Drive on 12 August 2021 to take up a new role as BBC Middle East correspondent in Beirut. [3] [4]

In May 2024, the BBC announced that Foster was one of six well-known BBC presenters to start presenting the BBC News at One from its new home at Salford studios at the beginning of June 2024. [5]

Personal life

She married fellow radio presenter John Foster in October 2009 at Crathorne Hall near Yarm, North Yorkshire; [1] [ dead link ] they have a son and a daughter. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Administrator, journallive. "Interview: Anna Foster, breakfast show presenter on Radio Five Live". www.thejournal.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "Anna Foster joins 5 Live Weekend Breakfast". BBC.
  3. ↑ "Anna Foster announces departure from BBC Radio 5 Live". RadioToday. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "BBC Radio 5 Live". Twitter. 12 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "BBC News at One to start broadcasting from Salford on Monday 3 June". BBC Media Centre. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  6. ↑ "Anna Foster hopes to help other mothers with the loneliness of pregnancy and miscarriage". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2023.

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