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Francine Stock (born 14 March 1958) is a British radio and television presenter and novelist, of part-French origin.

Early life

Born in Devon in 1958, Stock is the daughter of John Stock and his wife JeanAnne Mallet. After her early years in Edinburgh and Australia, she was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, Surrey and is a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian).[1]

Career in journalism

After working in specialist

BBC2. In the mid-1990s she presented BBC2's The Antiques Show with Tim Wonnacott and was one of the original presenters of BBC Radio 4's Front Row[2][3]
in 1998.

She later moved to

Prospect magazine. She also presents "The Cultural Front" on BBC Radio 4 which examines the First World War and how it changed society and the arts.[5]

Other roles

Since 2005, she has been chair of the Tate Members Council and became the first female Honorary Fellow of Jesus College in 2007. As a novelist, Stock has published two works of fiction: A Foreign Country (1999, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award) and Man-Made Fibre (2002).

She is married to Robert Lance Hughes; the couple have two grown-up daughters.[6]

Bibliography

Novels
  • A Foreign Country (1999)
  • Man-made Fibre (2002)
Non-Fiction
  • In Glorious Technicolor: a Century of Film and How it Has Shaped Us (2011)

References

  1. ^ "Stock, Francine Elizabeth, (born 14 March 1958), writer and broadcaster", ukwhoswho.com, accessed 19 October 2023
  2. ^ "Francine Stock" Archived 2016-10-21 at the Wayback Machine The Booker Prize Foundation. Accessed 20 October 2016
  3. ^ "Francine Stock: Break in transmission" The Guardian. 8 March 1999. Accessed 20 October 2016
  4. ^ "The Film Programme hosts discuss show's cancellation" Radio Times. 30 September 2021. Accessed 17 December 2021
  5. ^ "World War One: The Cultural Front" BBC Radio 4, accessed 19 October 2023
  6. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 20 April 2024.

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