Anna Ford
Former TV Presenter
About Anna
Anna Ford became the presenter of BBC ONE's One O'clock News when it re-launched in May 1999. Anna left the One O'Clock News in early 2006.Her BBC career began in 1976 for Man Alive; in 1977 she joined Tomorrow's World and from 1986 until 1988 she worked on Network, a live studio based current affairs programme. She joined the BBC ONE Six O'clock News team in 1989.
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Anna Ford became the presenter of BBC ONE's One O'clock News when it re-launched in May 1999. Anna left the One O'Clock News in early 2006.Anna has been a non Executive director of Sainsburys since May 2006 where she chairs the Board Committee on Corporate responsibility, and a non exec Dir of N. Brown since April 2009.
Her BBC career began in 1976 for Man Alive; in 1977 she joined Tomorrow's World and from 1986 until1988 she worked on Network, a live studio based current affairs programme. She joined the BBC ONE Six O'clock News team in 1989. Anna presented the Today programme on Radio 4 for two years and has made radio documentaries on women in the 20th century, and complimentary medicine.
Her television career began in 1974 when Anna worked on the news desk for Granada TV, and worked on Reports Action, a social action programme helping children to find adoptive parents. In 1978 she joined ITN as a newscaster and medical correspondent, and in 1981 she helped set up breakfast television with TV -AM. She has done numerous freelance programmes and series for Channel 4, Thames TV, Central TV and Granada.
Before joining the BBC she was the staff tutor in Social Studies at the Open University in Northern Ireland, organizing study centres around the province, employing part-time staff and lecturing in Social Science and Politics. She also taught a class of interned provisional members of the IRA, in Long Kesh for two years and was a member of the Open University Course development team for Social Science. She lectured in a college of Further Education between 1970 and 1972.