Martha Kearney Biography
Martha Kearney (Full name- Martha Catherine Kearney) is a British journalist and broadcaster who was born on 8 October 1957, Dublin, Ireland. She was the main presenter of The World at One, BBC Radio 4’s lunchtime news programme, for 11 years. Kearney became a presenter of early morning Today programme in April 2018.
Martha Kearney Family
Martha Kearney was born to Catherine “Kate” Kearney and her father, the historian Hugh Kearney, in Dublin, and brought up in an academic environment. Hugh Kearney taught first at Sussex and later at Edinburgh universities.
Martha Kearney Education
Having an Academician for a father, Hugh Kearney, means that Martha Kearney was brought up in an academic environment. During her primary years, she was educated at St Wilfrids RC School, Burgess Hill, Sussex and briefly attended Brighton and Hove High School. She completed her secondary education at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh. Kearney read classics at St Anne’s College, Oxford, from 1976–80. She later worked as a volunteer in hospital radio in her final year at Oxford.
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Martha Kearney married Chris Shaw, who was born on 19 June 1957), in July 2001. Shaw is a senior programme controller of Channel 5. Together, the couple lives in Suffolk.
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Martha Kearney Age
Martha Kearney was born on 8 October 1957, Dublin, Ireland. She is 60 years old as of 2018.
Martha Kearney Early Career
Martha Kearney began her career at the London Commercial Station LBC and Independent Radio News in London, as a phone operator on phone-in programmes. Before becoming a political correspondent, where she covered the United Kingdom general election, 1987, she was a reporter on the AM programme. Kearney joined A Week in Politics on Channel 4 as a reporter in 1988 . She moved to the BBC’s political programme On The Record in 1990.
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Kearney became a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour in 1998. She became political editor of BBC Two’s Newsnight programme in 2000. Kearney presented, with increasing frequency, Newsnight and its weekly consumer survey of entertainment and culture, NewsnightReview. In 2005, before losing to Nick Robinson, she was a candidate to succeed Andrew Marr as the BBC’s political editor.
Martha Kearney featured in a spoof segment of the BBC comedy series Time Trumpet, titled Honey, I Shrunk Martha Kearney, in which Jeremy Paxman, in a fantasy version of Newsnight, interviewed her a third of her normal size. She also featured later in the episode in a spoof report from Notting Hill. In 2006, she presented The Idea of a University, a Radio 4 series on the history of universities in Britain, with her father.
On 19 March 2007, Kearney presented her final Woman’s Hour and her final Newsnight on 23 March 2007. On 16 April 2007, she became the main presenter of Radio 4’s lunchtime news programme The World at One. From 2006 until 2014, she presented Newsnight Review which became known as The Review Show.
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Martha Kearney’s coverage of the Northern Ireland Peace Process in 1998 saw her nominated for a BAFTA award. Together with Jenni Murray, they were awarded the 2004 TRIC radio presenter of the year. Kearney also won a Sony bronze award for a programme on child poverty. In 2006, she was awarded Political Commentator of the Year by the House magazine. The Voice of the Listener and Viewer awarded Kearney the Best individual contribution to Radio in 2014.
Kearney won her episode of the Great Comic Relief Bake Off in 2013, competing against Claudia Winkleman, Helen Glover and Ed Byrne.
In April 2018, Martha Kearney swapped posts with Sarah Montague, joining Today on Radio 4 as a main presenter.
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Other BBC work includes Who Killed The Honey Bee (2009) for BBC Four, The Wonder of Bees (2014) for BBC Four, a two part nature documentary Hive Alive (2014) alongside Chris Packham for BBC Two, The Secret World of Lewis Carroll (2015) for BBC Two, Being The Brontes (2016) for BBC Two, The Great Butterfly Adventure (2016) for BBC Four, The Books That Made Britain (2016) for BBC One, Great Irish Journeys (2017) for BBC Four, and MAKE! Craft Britain (2017) for BBC Four.
Martha Kearney interviewed Kazuo Ishiguro and Marlon James amongst others when she presented Talking Books for the BBC from Hay Festival.
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Radio 4 news presenter Martha Kearney spoke movingly about her personal connections to the Shoah at the Holocaust Educational Trust’s annual Lord Merlyn-Rees lecture, held on Monday at the Houses of Parliament.
Ms Kearney, the event chair, said her late mother-in-law Isabel Shaw “was a survivor of the camps. It was only in her later years that she began to talk to me about life during the war. That is why I think the work of the Holocaust Educational Trust is so important, by keeping those experiences alive and making sure that other generations learn from them.”
Delivering the lecture, historian Sir Martin Gilbert focused on this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme of Untold Stories, pointing out that countless recollections of loss and hope during the Holocaust had never been shared.
“No day passed from September 1, 1939 to May 7, 1945 when somewhere across the vast expanse of tortured, captive Europe, Jews did not make some effort to defy their tormentors and non-Jews did not seek to help, despite the dangers.”
There were also emotional presentations from HET student ambassadors from its Lessons from Auschwitz project.
“Nothing prepared me for the loneliness and sadness that we encountered at Auschwitz,” confessed Vyvy Nguyeri from Woodhouse College, Finchley. “I have the greatest respect for those who persevered there. We believe that the Holocaust should never be a story left untold.”
Tory Party chair Baroness Warsi said afterwards: “Learning about the Holocaust reminds us of what unchallenged discrimination can lead to and it is thus a powerful tool to fight the ongoing battle against bigotry, intolerance, racism and hatred.”
The lecture is in memory of the former Labour Home Secretary who co-founded the HET with Lord Janner in 1988.
Source: www.thejc.com