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Sarah Kennedy

Born July 8, 1950 (1950-07-08) (age 57)
East Grinstead, West Sussex, England
Occupation Radio Broadcaster
Spouse Adrian McGlynn
Children None

Sarah Mary Kennedy MBE[1] (born 8 July 1950 in East Grinstead, West Sussex) is a British TV and radio broadcaster. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. East Grinstead (archaically spelt Grimstead) is a town and Civil parish in the northeastern corner of Mid Sussex, West Sussex in England Settlements Most settlements in West Sussex are either along the south coast or are situated in the M23 corridor England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. East Grinstead (archaically spelt Grimstead) is a town and Civil parish in the northeastern corner of Mid Sussex, West Sussex in England Settlements Most settlements in West Sussex are either along the south coast or are situated in the M23 corridor The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A presenter, or host (sometimes hostess, in feminine form is a Person or Organization responsible for running an event She has presented her own daily early morning radio show, The Dawn Patrol, on BBC Radio 2 since 1993. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar)

Kennedy was honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005, when she was awarded the MBE for services to broadcasting. The Queen's Birthday Honours (or King's Birthday Honours when the monarch is male is a civic occasion on the celebration of the Queen's Official Birthday in which The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. [1]

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Career history

Radio

Kennedy began her career with the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Singapore, before moving to BBC Radio 2 in 1976,[2] where she presented Family Favourites and did the final closedown before the station moved to 24-hour broadcasting in January 1979. The British Forces Broadcasting Service was established by the British War Office (now the Ministry of Defence) in 1943 Singapore Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (also known as Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes Sign-off (or in British/Irish/New Zealand English closedown) is the sequence of operations involved when a radio or Television station shuts down its

Television

Kennedy's first on-screen job was reading the news on Southern Television's Day by Day. She came to prominence in TV as one of the hosts of the ITV light entertainment show Game for a Laugh from 1981 to 1984. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Game For A Laugh was a popular British TV Light entertainment show which ran for 58 editions between 26 September 1981 and 23 She was also one of the team involved with the short-lived BBC current affairs programme 60 Minutes, which ran from 1983 to 1984, and was the main presenter of the ITV game show Busman's Holiday for several series in the 1980s. Busman's Holiday was a British television game show which was produced by Granada Television and ran on the ITV network from 1985 She also co-hosted The Animals Roadshow and Animal Country with zoologist Desmond Morris in the late 1980s and 1991 respectively. For the Australian rugby league footballer coach and administrator see Des Morris Desmond John Morris (born 24 January 1928

Recent career

In 1992, Kennedy returned to Radio 2, where she has since presented the weekday early morning show. It was originally broadcast from 5 am to 7 am each day, but moved to its current time-slot of 6 am to 7. 30 am in the mid-1990s. In 1995, Kennedy received a prestigious Sony Gold Radio Award. The Sony Radio Academy Awards (the Sonys) started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry She has a regular audience of almost five million listeners on Radio 2, which was named as the UK's most popular station in the most recent (Quarter 3 2006) statistics published by Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (RAJAR). RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience Research Limited was established in 1992 to operate a single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom. [3]

As an author

Kennedy has also published a novel, Charlotte's Friends, as well as two collections of listeners' tales, called Terrible Twos (two editions) and Terrible Pets.

Broadcasting style

Kennedy's style of presentation is occasionally idiosyncratic. Talking over the start or end of records, anecdotes that seemingly have no point or punchline, an obsession with cats, the constant use of pre-recorded sound effects, and the use of the suffix "-ingtons" at the end of names or other words give the show its atmosphere. She also regularly refers to the BBC Pips either just before or just after they are played. She has a loyal fanbase, among whom she is known as Bunty Bagshaw (an allusion to the Joyce Grenfell or Arthur Marshall type of 'jolly-hockey-sticks' girls' boarding school character). Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE ( née Phipps; 10 February 1910 &ndash 30 November 1979) was an English Arthur Marshall may refer to Arthur Marshall (broadcaster Arthur R She often tells listeners about her holiday activities, as well as life in her country and London houses.

She has often championed more peculiar records, including:

For a while her 'Love/Hate' feature forced similar 'hits', including Dame Barbara Cartland's version of "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", upon the early-morning listenership. Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland DBE CStJ ( 9 July 1901 &ndash 21 May 2000) was a successful English

The latter slot was replaced by 'Showtime', for which listeners write in with a request to play a song from a famous musical, introduced by Guy Henry. Guy Henry (born 17 October 1960) is a British stage and screen actor best known for his role in Rome.

Her reworking of English words is a distinctive element of the show. She changes names as follows: "The Eaglingtons" (Eagles), "The Kinkingtons" (The Kinks), "Sainsbugs" (Sainsbury's), "supermercado" (supermarkets as in Spain), "busticles"/"chesticles" (breasts), etc. The Kinks were an English pop and rock group formed in 1963 and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band J Sainsbury plc ( is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd commonly known as Sainsbury's (also Sainsbury and JS) the third largest She frequently reads out the expression "SWs to you" from listeners who write in. "SWs" is shorthand for "Love the show" (as in the oft-quoted phrase by Steve Wright on his programmes, hence the use of his initials). Stephen Richard (Steve Wright (born 26 August 1954 in Greenwich, London) is a radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom. Many listeners write in to ask what "SWs" actually means, but she rarely explains it.

Kennedy is said to have been the first person to use the term 'white van man' in 1997[5], and was made the honorary president of the first Ford Transit Owners Club in 2005 to "mark her contribution to the van industry". "White van man" is a stereotype a usually Pejorative term used in the United Kingdom to describe aggressive thoughtless drivers of light commercial The Ford Transit is a range of Panel vans minibuses and pickup trucks produced by the Ford Motor Company in Europe. [6] Kennedy was claimed to be "recovering from pneumonia". [7] She returned to work on 10 September 2007. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

Controversy

On occasions in both 2000 and 2007 the BBC have issued apologies for Kennedy's use of racial slurs during broadcasts. The following is a list of ethnic slurs that are or have been used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given Ethnicity or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical [8]

Personal life

Sarah Kennedy was born in West Sussex and was a Matron at Copthorne Prep School. Settlements Most settlements in West Sussex are either along the south coast or are situated in the M23 corridor Copthorne Preparatory School is situated in West Sussex for pupils aged between 2 and 13

She has a partner, Adrian McGlynn, a director of horseracing's administrators, Weatherbys, whom she refers to as her "Much Beloved". He has become a popular character in the show. He is 16 years younger than Kennedy. They met at the wedding of Desmond Morris's son, where McGlynn was best man. Resides in the village of Melchbourne in Bedfordshire.

References

  1. ^ a b BBC News: BBC's Frank Gardner collects OBE
  2. ^ BBC Radio 2: Sarah Kennedy biography
  3. ^ RAJAR research (PDF file)
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ BBC News: E-CYCLOPEDIA White Van Man: Cut up about it
  6. ^ She is affectionately known as "TBW" (That Bloody Woman) by TOGs (aka Terry (Wogan's) Old Geezers). Terry's Old Geezers/Gals/Gits (often nicknamed "TOGs" are people who listen to the Wake Up to Wogan show on BBC Radio 2. Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3 1938 more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish Radio and Television Kennedy is often plagued by minor illnesses, which she describes ad nauseam, and has to take time off work, giving her the nickname 'Sicknote'. . Her slurred speech throughout her show on 13 August 2007 gave listeners cause for concern, but the presenter blamed a "sore throat". Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. She presented the show on 14 August 2007, but then disappeared from the airwaves, the programme being presented by her colleagues Pete Mitchell, Alex Lester, Aled Jones and Richard Allinson. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Pete Mitchell (born in Crumpsall Greater Manchester, England) is a presenter on BBC Radio 2 Alex Lester (born Alexander Norman Charles Phillips Lester, 11 May, 1956 in Walsall, United Kingdom) is a British Aled Jones (born 29 December 1970 is a Welsh Singer and Television / Radio personality and broadcaster who first came to fame as a Richard John McNeill Allinson was born on 12 October 1958 in Lichfield, Staffordshire. <ref>[http://news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/entertainment/6944878. stm BBC News: Slurring presenter blames illness]</li> <li id="cite_note-6">'''[[#cite_ref-6|^]]''' [http://www. bbc. co. uk/radio2/shows/kennedy/ BBC Radio 2 show page, 25 August 2007]</li> <li id="cite_note-7">'''[[#cite_ref-7|^]]''' [http://www. telegraph. co. uk/news/main. jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/01/nkennedy101. xml Telegraph. co. uk: BBC may act over Kennedy's racial comment]</li></ol></ref>

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