Kay Alexander
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Kay Alexander | |
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| Born | 4 June 1950 |
| Occupation | Television presenter |
| Spouse | Brian Conway |
| Children | 2 |
Kay Alexander
Early life
Alexander was born and brought up in Aldershot in Hampshire. Her mother was a doctor and her father was an aeronautical engineer and she has two brothers. After attending the independent Frensham Heights School, Alexander read English at the University of Birmingham, gaining a degree in 1973.[1] She started a PGCE course which she did not complete.
Career
Alexander initially worked for the BBC at Pebble Mill for BBC Radio 4 (where she worked on You and Yours, Checkpoint and Woman's Hour).
She then worked on BBC
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In 1995 she narrated the Video 125 'Drivers' Eye View' of the Birmingham Cross-City line.
Personal life
Alexander was until 2012 Chairman of the Birmingham Assay Office (the first woman to hold this position). During that time she became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and a Freeman of the City of London. She is a former Director of the Birmingham Hippodrome and a Patron of Acorns Children's Hospice, the Mary Ann Evans Hospice, cancer charity Breast Friends and now Age UK Birmingham and Age UK Sandwell.
Alexander was appointed
On Saturday 1 October 1988 Alexander married Brian Conway, a Radio Leicester breakfast radio presenter and a presenter on the East Midlands slot on Midlands Today from 1984–1990, at Birmingham Register Office.[5] But there was a BBC regulation about couples working with each other, to avoid conflicts of interest, or favouritism, in decision making.
Her first husband in 1970, when she was 20, was Frank Wibaut, a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, who grew up near her, in Runfold. She had a daughter in July 1976, who was seven weeks early, and a son in September 1978.[6]
In the 1980s she lived in the Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston. She currently lives in Witherley near Nuneaton on the Leicestershire boundary.[7][8]
References
- ^ Degree
- ^ BBC Midlands Today presenter Kay Alexander to retire Archived 3 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine Graham Young, The Birmingham Post, 26 October 2012
- ^ "BBC One - Midlands Today, Evening News, 16/06/2017, Gardeners' World: Celebrating 50 years".
- ^ "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 14.
- ^ Birmingham Mail Saturday 1 October 1988, page 7
- ^ Birmingham Mail Friday 22 September 1978, page 41
- ^ Birmingham Mail
- ^ "BBC Radio Leicester - Jonathan Lampon, Government Minister visits MIRA & Crematorium in Countesthorpe, Kay Alexander to receive MBE". BBC. Retrieved 29 April 2023.