Pamela Armstrong

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Pamela Armstrong (born 25 August 1951 in Kalimantan, Borneo) is a British journalist and news presenter.

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Background

Armstrong's career in journalism started with Capital Radio where she presented the daily news and current affairs programme London Today .

She also spent six months reporting on Operation Drake, the expedition that retraced the round-the-world voyage of the great explorer. She sailed in a square-rigged brigantine from Panama to Papua New Guinea taking in the Galapagos, Tahiti and Fiji on the way. [1]

She presented two series of the health programme Wellbeing on Channel 4. It proved highly popular and was one of the channel's earliest successes. She worked for ITN as a newscaster from 1983 to 1986. After leaving ITV in 1986, she joined the BBC where she co-presented Breakfast Time as well as hosting Britain's first chat show to be broadcast five days a week, The Pamela Armstrong Show. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Education

Armstrong was educated in Sarawak, Indonesia and Britain. [1] [2]

Books

Armstrong has written a book, Beating the Biological Clock. She now works as an after dinner speaker and in corporate communications. [6] [7] [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pamela Armstrong Speaker - Parliament Speakers". parliamentspeakers.com. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Pamela Armstrong". BFI Film Forever. BFI. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  3. Jackson, Vanessa (2012). "The Pamela Armstrong Show – photo by Maggy Whitehouse". pebblemill.org. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  4. Titchmarsh, Alan (7 January 2016). Alan Titchmarsh: Collected Memoirs: Trowel and Error, Nobbut a Lad, Knave of Spades. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 210. ISBN   9781473633247.
  5. Robinson, Nick (2013). Live from Downing Street : the inside story of politics, power and the media (paperback ed.). Bantam Press. ISBN   9780857500007.
  6. Armstrong, Pamela (1996). Beating the biological clock : the joys and challenges of late motherhood. London: Headline. ISBN   978-0747278146.
  7. "Pamela Armstrong: Journalist, Broadcaster, Author". Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2016.