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Sian Mary Williams (born 28 November 1964 in Eastbourne, Sussex) is a television presenter for the BBC. She currently presents BBC Breakfast on Monday-Thursday alongside Dermot Murnaghan. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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A television presenter is a British term for a person who introduces or hosts television programmes. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and BBC News 24. ...
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Radio career
Prior to her career in television journalism, Williams spent over a decade with BBC Radio after joining the corporation in 1985. She worked on BBC Local Radio in Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester before becoming a producer and reporter in Liverpool. She later joined BBC Radio 4 as a producer on The World at One and PM programmes. Williams spent the next few years editing news programmes on the station and also on BBC Radio Five Live. BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. ...
BBC Local Radio is the BBCs regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations. ...
old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...
The World at One, or WATO for short, is BBC Radio 4s long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, which is broadcast from 1pm to 1:30pm from Monday to Friday. ...
PM is an early evening (PM at five PM) news magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ...
BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ...
Television career Williams's first job in television news was when she joined digital rolling news channel BBC News 24, which was soon to launch, as an output editor. During screen tests for potential presenters, one became unwell and Sian was asked if she would be willing to try for the role. When she did, producers were so impressed that they offered her the position alongside Gavin Esler presenting from 4pm-7pm; one of the prime slots on the channel. BBC News 24 is the BBCs 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom. ...
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She remained with the channel for nearly two years before joining the Six O'Clock News in 1999 as their Special Correspondent. During this time she also began filling in for the programme's presenters, Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce, as well as regularly presenting the national news bulletins on BBC One at weekends. The BBC Six OClock News is the evening news programme which is broadcast daily on British television channel BBC One and BBC News 24 from 6:00pm until 6:30pm and is currently presented by George Alagiah and Natasha Kaplinsky. ...
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BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ...
She joined the BBC's Breakfast programme in January 2001 as one of the regular presenters, initially presenting on Friday-Sunday alongside Darren Jordon, and then later with Bill Turnbull, as well as deputising for main presenter Sophie Raworth and later Natasha Kaplinsky during the week. BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and BBC News 24. ...
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Bill Turnbull is a journalist and news presenter for the BBC. He was educated at Eton and the University of Edinburgh. ...
Sophie Raworth presenting a BBC Six OClock News bulletin with her co-host George Alagiah Sophie Raworth at an awards ceremony Sophie Raworth (born 15 May 1968) is a newsreader on BBC Television in the UK, although she is currently not presenting due to taking maternity leave. ...
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In April 2006 she was confirmed as the main female presenter of the programme. She now presents with Dermot Murnaghan each Monday-Thursday. Image:Dermot Murnaghan. ...
Williams still acts as a regular relief presenter on the BBC One O'Clock News and the BBC Six O'Clock News, even taking on the Six O'Clock News role full-time during the summer of 2004 when Sophie Raworth was on maternity leave. She also occasionally presents on Radio Five Live and regularly presents programmes for BBC Wales (One Show, with Aled Jones, and the Big Welsh Challenge, where she spent a year learning Welsh) as well as presenting BBC One daytime programmes including Now You're Talking and City Hospital. The BBC One OClock News is the early afternoon news bulletin from the BBC. Produced by BBC News, the programme is broadcast on BBC One and BBC News 24 every weekday. ...
The BBC Six OClock News is the evening news programme which is broadcast daily on British television channel BBC One and BBC News 24 from 6:00pm until 6:30pm and is currently presented by George Alagiah and Natasha Kaplinsky. ...
BBC Wales (Welsh: ) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. ...
Aled Jones (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality and broadcaster who first came to fame as a boy soprano. ...
BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ...
Family life Although born and raised in England, Williams is Welsh by heritage, her family hailing from Llanelli. She has two sons from her marriage in February 1991, Joss and Alex, to Neale Hunt, a former director of the U.S. advertising firm McCann-Erickson, now head of his own media company, Media Therapy. For the parliamentary constituency of Llanelli, see Llanelli (UK Parliament constituency) For the Llanelli Rural area, see Llanelli Rural Llanelli (English: ), the largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire and West Wales, sits on the Burry estuary on the west Wales coast, approximately 13 miles west of the city of...
Williams's third son, was born in October 2006. His father is Williams's current partner, Paul Woolwich (born 1953), a BBC executive in Current Affairs and Business programmes.
External links - BBC Presenter Profile
- Celebrity Baby Blog
- Protestor drops his pants for Sian in September 2005 on live TV
- Sian Williams at the Internet Movie Database
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