Jenni Murray

Dame Jenni Murray DBE
Murray in 2011
Born	Jennifer Susan Bailey 12 May 1950 (1950-05-12) (age 66) Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Occupation	Journalist and broadcaster

Dame Jennifer Susan "Jenni" Murray, DBE (née Bailey; born 12 May 1950) is an English journalist and broadcaster, best known for presenting BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour since 1987.

She is married, for the second time, with two grown-up sons.

Murray was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire and attended Barnsley Girls High School, a grammar school, leaving with A levels in French, English and History. She has a degree in French and Drama from the University of Hull.

Murray joined BBC Radio Bristol in 1973 before becoming a reporter and presenter for local news programme South Today. She was a newsreader and later one of the presenters of the BBC's Newsnight television programme for two years from 1983 before moving to Radio 4 to present the Today programme. She took over from Sue MacGregor as presenter of Woman's Hour in 1987. She has also presented Radio 4's The Message and written for magazines and newspapers including "The Guardian", Daily Express and the Daily Mail.

She has written several books, including

On 21 December 2006, Murray announced at the end of Woman's Hour that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She informed her audience that her prognosis was good; she did indeed return early in 2007. She reported that the most emotionally upsetting moment was losing her hair, and used this as an item on the centrality of hair to definitions of femininity.

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