Anna Foster is to enroll in BBC Radio 4’s Nowadays programme as one of the most programme’s major presenters, following the departure of Mishal Husain in December.
Foster is a former Heart East correspondent and has additionally up to now introduced BBC Radio 5 Are living Force and Radio 1’s Newsbeat, in addition to the company’s flagship TV information announcements.
She’s going to provide many editions of Nowadays from Salford, as a part of the BBC’s efforts to higher constitute extra spaces of the United Kingdom past London.
In a observation, Foster stated: “There are few extra thrilling alternatives for a journalist than presenting Nowadays, and I am delighted to be becoming a member of the group.
“I have all the time cherished making essential, agenda-setting, enticing radio, and there may be nowhere higher to try this. It is this type of liked programme to such a lot of other folks, and I will be able to’t wait to be part of it.”
The BBC stated that, along with presenting Nowadays, Foster would “proceed to play a key position in serving to to guide the BBC’s protection of international information” and can nonetheless be observed on TV information announcements for primary tales.
Bosses are reported to had been willing to make sure the presenter changing Husain had a an identical stage of world reporting wisdom and enjoy.
“She brings essential world reporting enjoy at a time when it’s wanted so urgently by means of listeners to Radio 4,” stated the station’s controller Mohit Bakaya.
Foster is one in all a number of correspondents and presenters who’ve co-hosted episodes of Nowadays in fresh weeks following Husain’s departure.
Simon Jack and Jonny Dymond are probably the most common stand-in presenters on Nowadays, on the other hand the Sunday Occasions reported bosses have been willing to nominate a feminine host to exchange Husain to care for gender steadiness at the programme.
The opposite present presenters of Nowadays are Emma Barnett, Justin Webb, Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson.
The BBC’s director of reside and day by day information, John McAndrew, stated Foster had “super vary and wealthy, numerous enjoy” spanning greater than twenty years, after she joined the BBC in 2002.
As a international correspondent, Foster has reported at the Turkish earthquake, the Israel-Gaza struggle, the Ebola outbreak, the famine in South Sudan and the battle in Ukraine.
Husain joined the Nowadays programme in 2013, however left the BBC final yr for a brand new position at Bloomberg.
