Moira Stuart
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Moira Stuart OBE |
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| Born |
Moira Clare Ruby Stuart 2 September 1949 Royal Free Hospital, London, UK |
| Occupation | Presenter, newsreader |
| Agent | Sue Ayton |
| Notable credit(s) | BBC News |
| Parent(s) | Harold Stuart Marjorie Gordon |
| Family | Sandra (sister) |
Moira Clare Ruby StuartOBE (born 2 September 1949) is a British presenter, who was the first African-Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British television.
In a career that spans more than three decades, she has presented many television news and radio programmes for the BBC and is currently the newsreader for The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.
Moira Stuart was born in the Royal Free Hospital, London, on 2 September 1949, to Dominican-Barbadian African-Caribbean parents. She was educated in London until she was 13, attending Our Lady's Convent RC High School, Stamford Hill. She then moved with her family to Bermuda for a while, returning at the age of 15 to London, where she attended college.
Stuart began working with the BBC in the 1970s and was a production assistant in the radio Talks and Documentaries department. She was a continuity announcer and newsreader for both BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 2, and in 1980 she played Darong in series one of game show The Adventure Game. She moved to television news in 1981.
Since 27 August 1981, Stuart has presented on every news bulletin devised on BBC Television apart from the Ten O'Clock News. She has also appeared on The News Quiz and presented the news on the BBC's Breakfast with Frost programme each Sunday and its successor programme Sunday AM with Andrew Marr. She presented the news for BBC Breakfast during the first half-hour of the programme, three days a week, followed by short half-hourly round-ups throughout the rest of the three-hour-long show. However, BBC Breakfast moved to a new studio with a new look on 2 May 2006 and the entire news content was presented by two main presenters. Stuart retained her slot on BBC's Sunday AM show and continued to present some weekend television bulletins on BBC One. She also worked on other long-form programmes for other BBC channels, including BBC Four.
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