Sue Lawley
Sue Lawley BBC Six O'Clock News Desert Island Discs | |
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Spouses | David Ashby
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Susan Lawley
Early life and education
Sue Lawley was born at
Career
She began her professional career as a trainee reporter on the
In 1974, Lawley was part of the BBC's Election Team for the October General Election[3] and in 1979, anchored the morning election results show the day after the general election night broadcast.[4] When Sir Robin Day suffered a heart attack, Lawley sat in for him as the chair of the topical discussion programme Question Time for several editions.[5] In later years, Fiona Bruce was credited with being the first woman to host Question Time and the first woman to be part of the BBC's Election Night team, when in fact Lawley had performed both roles many years before Bruce.
Lawley left Tonight on
During an interview with
After Nationwide, Lawley became the anchor of the Nine O'Clock News bulletin on BBC1, and then moved to the newly launched Six O'Clock News in 1984. Lawley was praised after a broadcast on 23 May 1988, when the studio was invaded by protesters opposed to Section 28: she continued to read the news whilst co-presenter Nicholas Witchell restrained one of them.[7]
Guest appearances and Desert Island Discs
In 1981, she made a guest appearance in the
Other work
In 1989, the BBC launched Lawley in her own Saturday night talk show titled Saturday Matters with Sue Lawley, which was received badly by critics and was cancelled after one series. The very first guest interviewed was Sarah, Duchess of York. Lawley later left the BBC to work for ITV, but did little work for them, other than an occasional series of high-profile interviews, which included British Prime Minister John Major. She returned to BBC1 in 1993 to host the show Biteback. Lawley was later part of ITN's presenting team in its ITV Election 97 coverage.
Lawley later introduced the BBC Radio 4
Personal life
Lawley was first married in 1975 to David Ashby, a solicitor. Lawley's second marriage was in 1987, to Hugh Williams, a television executive.
She was awarded the OBE in 2001.
References
- ^ Kington, Miles (23 October 2011). "Sue Lawley, this is your interviewing style". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ a b c Gibson, Owen (25 August 2006). "The Guardian profile: Sue Lawley". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 April 2008.
- ^ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index".
- ^ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index".
- ^ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index".
- ^ Schmidt, Randy (24 October 2010). "Karen Carpenter's tragic story". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
- ^ "TV's top 10 tantrums". BBC News. 31 August 2001.
- ^ Lawley quits Desert Island Discs, BBC, 12 April 2006
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - the Reunion, Pioneering Women Newsreaders".
External links
- Sue Lawley at IMDb