Anna Forde

Biography:

Anna Ford became the presenter of BBC One's “One O'clock News” when it re-launched in May 1999, where she stayed until her leaving the show in early 2006. 

Anna has been a non-executive director of Sainsbury’s since leaving the “One O’clock News”, where she chairs the board committee on corporate responsibility. Since April of 2009, Anna has been the non-executive director of the N. Brown Group.

In 1976, Anna began her career with the BBC with “Man Alive”. In 1977, she moved on to join the team of “Tomorrow's World”, then going on to work on “Network”; a live, studio based current affairs programme, where she stayed from1986 until 1988. She joined the BBC One “Six O'clock News” team in 1989. Anna then went on to present the “Today programme” on Radio 4 for two years. During this time, Anna went on to make radio documentaries on women in the 20th century, and on complimentary medicine. 

Her television career began in 1974 when Anna worked on the news desk for Granada TV, and worked on Reports Action, a social action programme helping children to find adoptive parents. In 1978 she joined ITN as a newscaster and medical correspondent, and in 1981 she helped set up breakfast television with TV -AM. She has done numerous freelance programmes and series for Channel 4, Thames TV, Central TV and Granada.

Before joining the BBC she was the staff tutor in Social Studies at the Open University in Northern Ireland, organizing study centres on the province, employing part-time staff, and lecturing in Social Science and Politics. She also taught a class of interned provisional members of the IRA, in Long Kesh for two years and was a member of the Open University Course development team for Social Science. She lectured in a college of Further Education between 1970 and 1972.