Jane Garvey (broadcaster)

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Jane Garvey (born 1964 in Crosby, Liverpool) is a BBC radio presenter, currently presenting BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

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Educated at Merchant Taylors' Girls' School in Crosby, Liverpool and graduated from the University of Birmingham. Garvey then had a variety of jobs, including working as a medical records clerk in a finance company, as a trainee for an advertising agency and as a receptionist.

Garvey became a promotions assistant for Radio Wyvern, where she later became news editor before leaving in 1988 to join BBC Hereford and Worcester as a reporter. The station began in February 1989. In 1989, Jane was presenter of The Breakfast Show at BBC Hereford and Worcester, where Ben Cooper (now head of daytime programmes at Radio 1) worked as her assistant.

Garvey was the first voice on Radio Five Live when it launched at 5am on 28 March 1994. She became the co-presenter of Radio Five Live's award-winning breakfast programme in 1994, and also presented the Everywoman programme on the BBC World Service. Her final long-term assignment was as co-presenter of Five Live's Drive show on weekday afternoons with Peter Allen. She and Allen have won four Sony Gold awards [1] and their relationship on air was described in The Times in 2002 as "a marriage made in radio heaven" [2]. In September 2007, it was announced that she was to be leaving the Five Live after 13 years.

From Monday 8th October she joined BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme as the second principal presenter, replacing Martha Kearney.[3]

Garvey is married to the television presenter Adrian Chiles. They live in Hammersmith and have two daughters. Her husband is a well known dedicated West Bromwich Albion fan, and when asked by a listener whether West Brom would be promoted that season, she commented: "I flaming hope not. Last time Albion got promoted, I gave birth nine months later."

In September 1997, she was travelling on the Swansea train in the Southall rail crash.

  1. ^ Profile of Peter Allen BBC publicity
  2. ^ Five of the BestTimesOnline Dec 10th 2002
  3. ^ Garvey to join Woman's Hour team BBC News - 18 September, 2007

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