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Bridget Kendall (born 27 April 1956) is an English journalist who was the

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's Diplomatic correspondent working for the corporation's radio and television networks. Since July 2016, she has been

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of Peterhouse, Cambridge: the first woman to head the college.

Early life and education

Kendall was born in 1956 at

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, a daughter of statistician

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and Diana (''née'' Fletcher). She has two brothers (one of whom is statistician

Wilfrid Kendall) and three sisters. Kendall was educated at Perse School for Girls, an independent school in

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. She then read Modern Languages at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and spent two years in Russia on

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scholarships in 1977 and 1982. Her postgraduate Soviet studies took her from St Antony's College, Oxford to

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, where she spent two years as a

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in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Career

Kendall joined the BBC in 1983 as a radio production trainee for the BBC World Service. She was the BBC's

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correspondent from 1989 to 1994, and developed her background in Russian politics. She was in Moscow to witness the power struggles in the

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as Mikhail Gorbachev tried to introduce reform, and reported on the break-up of the Soviet Union and the internal conflicts in Chechnya,

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and

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. She sent reports of the attempted coup in August 1991 and covered

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's rise to power. Kendall was the BBC's

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correspondent from 1994, becoming the Corporation's diplomatic correspondent in November 1998. She speaks fluent

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, and has interviewed world leaders including two interviews with

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live from the Kremlin as part of internet webcasts in March 2001 and July 2006. She interviewed King Abdullah of

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for the

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later in 2001, and hosted a similar event in Moscow with former Soviet President Gorbachev in 2002. She is the host of the intellectual talk show, '' The Forum'', on BBC World Service radio. On 1 February 2016, Kendall was elected as the first female Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. She took up her new post at the college in July, and continues to broadcast for the BBC as an external contributor.

Personal life

Kendall married freelance television journalist Nick Worrall in the early 1990s; they later divorced. She is civil partnered to Amanda Farnsworth, former BBC Visual Journalism and Data Editor.

Awards

Kendall received the James Cameron

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for Journalism in 1992 for reports on events in the former Soviet Union, being the first woman to receive that award. Later that year, she won a Bronze

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for "Reporter of the Year" and was appointed a

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(MBE) in the

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. In 2020 she was elected an

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(Hon FBA), and in 2021 was awarded the

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Award for her work with languages by the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

References

External links

BBC Press Office Profile
, bbc.co.uk
Peterhouse Profile
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