Martha Kearney
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Kearney in 2014
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| Born |
Martha Catherine Kearney 8 October 1957 Dublin, Ireland |
| Education |
Brighton and Hove High School George Watson's College St Anne's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist, presenter |
| Notable credit(s) |
Woman's Hour Newsnight The World at One |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Shaw (2001–present) |
| Parent(s) | Hugh Kearney, father |
Martha Catherine Kearney (born 8 October 1957) is an Irish-born Englishjournalist and broadcaster. She is the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's lunchtime news programme The World at One.
Kearney was born in Dublin, and brought up in an academic environment; her father, the historian Hugh Kearney, taught first at Sussex and later at Edinburgh universities. She was educated at St Wilfrids RC School, Burgess Hill, Sussex during her primary years, briefly attended Brighton and Hove High School, then completed her secondary education at George Watson's College in Edinburgh. From 1976–80 she read classics at St Anne's College, Oxford.
In her final year at Oxford, she worked as a volunteer in hospital radio. She began her journalistic career at the London commercial station, LBC.
In 1998 Kearney became a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. In 2000 she became political editor of BBC Two's Newsnight programme. She went on to present Newsnight and its weekly consumer survey of entertainment and culture, Newsnight Review, with increasing frequency. She has been an occasional presenter of the Today Programme on Radio 4, and was a candidate to succeed Andrew Marr as the BBC's political editor in 2005, but lost out to Nick Robinson.
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