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词条 Francine Stock
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career in journalism

  3. Other roles

  4. Bibliography

  5. References

  6. External links

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

Early life

Born in Devon, and with early years in Edinburgh and Australia, Stock later attended St Catherine's School, Guildford, where she was head girl, and is a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian).

Career in journalism

After working in specialist journalism on the oil industry, Stock joined the BBC in 1983. At first she reported on financial news and worked as a radio producer, later moving into television as presenter of Newsnight and (briefly, after serious illness) on The Money Programme on 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[1][2] in 1998.

She later moved to The Film Programme on radio, which she still presents. She is also the regular host of the BAFTA Life in Pictures strand, and regularly writes about film for Prospect magazine. She also presents "The Cultural Front" on BBC Radio 4 which examines World War One and the Arts.{{cn|date=January 2019}}

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.{{cn|date=January 2019}}

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. ^"Francine Stock" The Booker Prize Foundation. Accessed 20 October 2016
2. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/mar/08/costabookaward.features11 "Francine Stock: Break in transmission"] The Guardian. 8 March 1999. Accessed 20 October 2016

External links

  • [https://twitter.com/FrancineFilm Francine Stock's Film Programme Twitter account]
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