Moira Clare Ruby Stuart, CBE is a British presenter and broadcaster. She was the first female newsreader of Caribbean heritage to appear on British national television, having worked on BBC News since 1981.
In a career spanning four decades, she has presented many television news and radio programmes for the BBC and, from 2010 for nine years, was the newsreader for The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2. She hosted on the station her own music show every Sunday from 23:00 till midnight, featuring “timeless classics” from the past 60 years.
Stuart began as a morning news presenter for Classic FM in February 2019 and, from July 2019, a weekend presenter with her own Saturday show.
Stuart has received several awards during her career, including being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001 for services to broadcasting, and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2022 for services to media.
Moira Stuart Parents: Meet Harold Stuart and Marjorie Gordon
Moira Stuart was born at the Royal Free Hospital in London, on 2 September 1949, to Caribbean parents Harold Stuart and Marjorie Gordon.
Her mother Marjorie Gordon (1921–2017), who was born in Dominica, and her father Harold Stuart (1914–1966), a Barbadian lawyer, divorced when Stuart was ten months old.
Marjorie fell in love with Harold Stuart, a Barbadian lawyer. They married in 1943 and moved to Edinburgh. Here their daughter Sandra was born. The marriage ended shortly after Moira, their second child, was born.