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Francine Stock is a British radio and
television presenter A television presenter (or television host, some become a " television personality") is a person who introduces, hosts television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. Nowadays, it is common for people who garne ...
and
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, of part-French origin.


Early life

Born in
Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...
, and with early years in
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and
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...
, Stock later attended St Catherine's School,
Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...
, where she was
head girl Head boy and head girl are student leadership roles in schools, representing the school's entire student body. They are normally the most senior prefects in the school. The terms are commonly used in the British education system as well as in Aus ...
, and is a graduate of
Jesus College, Oxford Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship ...
, with a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian).


Career in journalism

After working in specialist
journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the " news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (p ...
on the oil industry, Stock joined the
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in 1983. At first she reported on financial news and worked as a radio producer, later moving into television as presenter of ''
Newsnight ''Newsnight'' (or ''BBC Newsnight'') is BBC Two's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines. The programme is broadcast on weekdays at 22:30. and is also availa ...
'' and (briefly, after serious illness) on '' The Money Programme'' on
BBC2 BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream a ...
. In the mid-1990s she presented BBC2's ''The Antiques Show'' with
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and was one of the original presenters of BBC Radio 4's '' Front Row'' in 1998. She later moved to ''
The Film Programme ''The Film Programme'' was a British film review radio programme, broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 4, from 2004 to 2021, presented by Francine Stock. The programme had a number of regular contributors, including Neil Brand and Rosemary Fletcher. ...
'' on radio, until it was cancelled in 2021."The Film Programme hosts discuss show's cancellation"
''
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''. 30 September 2021. Accessed 17 December 2021 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
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which examines
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and the Arts.


Other roles

Since 2005, she has been chair of the
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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 name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
; the couple have two grown-up daughters.


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


External links


Francine Stock's ''Film Programme'' Twitter account
1958 births Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC World News British journalists Living people People educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley Television personalities from Devon {{UK-tv-journalist-stub