Journalist Martha Kearney

Martha Kearney

Living place: Suffolk

Birthday: 8-10-1957 (67 years old)

Population of the world 1957: 2.888 billions

Global rank: #98375

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Who is Journalist Martha Kearney?
Martha Catherine Kearney is an Irish journalist and television broadcaster. She is best known as the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's noontime news program The World at one.
Some of her accomplishments:
  • Years 1998, she was nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for her coverage of the Northern Ireland peace process.
  • As a judge for the 2002 Webb Essay award
  • Jury for the Orange Prize for Novels 2005.
  • Jury for the 2012 "Hippocrates Prize" on the subject of poetry and medicine.
 
 

Young / Before famous

Martha Catherine Kearney grew up in an academic environment; Her father Hugh Kearney was a historian who taught at Sussex and later taught at the University of Edinburgh. During her primary school years she was educated at St Wilfrids RC School, Burgess Hill, Sussex, during which she briefly attended Brighton and Hove High School, later completing her secondary education at the school. George Watson College in Edinburgh. From 1976 to 1980 she read classics at St Anne's College, Oxford.
During her final year at Oxford, she worked as a volunteer at the hospital radio. She began her journalism career at London's central business district, LBC.
In 1998 Kearney became a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. In 2000, she became political editor of BBC Two's Newsnight program and she was a regular presenter of Radio 4's Today programme.
Kearney left Newsnight on 23 March 2007. Then on April 16, 2007, she became the main presenter of the noontime news program Radio 4; however, she remains a regular presenter of Newsnight Review.

Family life info

Her father, Hugh Kearney, was a prominent British historian. Kearney married Chris Shaw senior show director at Television Five in July 2001 in Depwade, Norfolk. The couple now live in Suffolk, where Kearney is also a part-time beekeeper.

Close relationship

Who is Boy friend/ husband/ darling Journalist Martha Kearney?
She and fellow broadcaster Jane Hill worked together for BBC Radio 4.

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When was Journalist Martha Kearney born?
Martha Kearney birthday 8-10-1957 (at the age of 67).
Where is Journalist Martha Kearney's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Martha Kearney was born in Dublin, of Ireland. Ms working and living in Suffolk, of England. Ms, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Martha Kearney's global rank is 98375 and whose rank is 614 in list of famous Journalist. Population of the world in 1957 is about 2.888 billions persons.
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Events in 1957 and 8-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Martha Kearney

  • Anthony Eden resigns (Jan. 9); MacMillan becomes British Prime Minister.
  • Russia launches Sputnik I, first earth-orbiting satellite—the Space Age begins (Oct. 4).
  • The USSR tests its first successful ICBM.

Birthday Martha Kearney (8-10) in history

  • Day 8-10 year 1869: The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, died in Concord, N.H.
  • Day 8-10 year 1871: The Great Fire of Chicago started. That same day in Peshtigo, Wis., the worst forest fire in U.S. history also began.
  • Day 8-10 year 1934: Bruno Hauptmannn was indicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby.
  • Day 8-10 year 1945: President Harry Truman announced the U.S. would share the secret of the atomic bomb only with Great Britain and Canada.
  • Day 8-10 year 1956: Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the first and only perfect game in a World Series.
  • Day 8-10 year 2004: Martha Stewart began her prison sentence at Alderson Federal Prison Camp.
  • Day 8-10 year 2005: A 7.6 magnitude earthquake centered in the Pakistani-controlled part of the Kashmir region killed more than 80,000 and injured 65,000.
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