Bridget Kendall
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Bridget Kendall MBE |
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| Born |
27 April 1956 Abingdon, Berkshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford St Antony's College, Oxford Harvard University |
| Relatives | David George Kendall (father) |
Bridget Kendall MBE (born 27 April 1956) is an English journalist who was the BBC's Diplomatic correspondent working for the corporation's radio and television networks. In July 2016, she became the first female Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. The title 'Master' is used rather than 'Mistress' or any other term which denotes female gender.
Kendall was born in 1956 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, a daughter of statistician David George Kendall and Diana (née Fletcher). She has two brothers (one of whom is statistician Wilfrid Kendall) and three sisters.
Kendall was educated at Perse School for Girls, in the city of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, followed by Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read Modern Languages, and spent two years in Russia on British Council scholarships in 1977 and 1982. Her postgraduate Soviet studies took her from St Antony's College, Oxford, to Harvard University, where she spent two years as a Harkness Fellow in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Kendall joined the BBC in 1983 as a radio production trainee for BBC World Service. She was the BBC's Moscow correspondent from 1989 to 1995, and developed her background in Russian politics. She was in Moscow to witness the power struggles in the Soviet Communist party as Mikhail Gorbachev tried to introduce reform, and reported on the break-up of the Soviet Union and the internal conflicts in Chechnya, Georgia and Tajikistan. She sent reports of the coup in August 1991 and covered Boris Yeltsin's rise to power.
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