Anna joined Granada TV in 1974 for a job on the company’s news desk. She was a presenter on BBC TV’s Man Alive and Tomorrow’s World (1977). She was a newscaster with ITN (March 1978 – March 1981), and also their medical correspondent in 1980. She left ITN to help set up TV-am, as one of the original ‘Famous Five’, but left in April 1983 after a bitter boardroom battle shortly after the company’s on-air debut.
She was a BBC TV newsreader from February 1989, working mainly on the Six o’Clock News, with occasional appearances on the One o’Clock News. She was a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today (1993 – 1998). She became the main anchor of the relaunched BBC TV One o’Clock News programme, from May 1999.
Anna retired from news presenting in April 2006.
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- 7th April 2019 at 10.52am
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- BBC, BBC One Network, BBC Two Network, ITV Granada, ITV Network, ITV Network Limited/ITV plc, TV-am (Defunct)
- Presenter
- Current Affairs, News
- Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network News (UK), Presenters: ITV Network, Presenters: ITV Network News, Presenters: TV-am