Anna Cookson is a British radio presenter, working at

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Background

Cookson was raised in

Eltham Eltham ( ) is a district of South London, southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is east-southeast of Charing Cross, and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. The three ...

, London.

Career

Very early in her career, Cookson taught children in

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for a short period. She attended university in

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, staying in the city because she worked at the BBC there. As of 2007, Cookson was a presenter at Passion Radio in Oxford. While at Passion Radio, she was heard on the station's breakfast show. From 2008 until 2010, Cookson was a broadcast journalist at radio stations owned by the

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media group, and in the early 2010s she spent brief periods as a presenter at local radio stations in the Home counties. Cookson was a presenter at

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television in the UK from 2010 until 2013. As of 2010, she stood in on the early breakfast show on

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. She presented on Premier Radio in the 2010s. She also sat in for other presenters on BBC Radio London during the 2010s. Cookson presented programmes on

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during holiday periods, starting in 2015 and ending in 2017. As of 2016, she was heard on

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. As of 2017, she was a reporter at

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. In mid-2017, Cookson joined

to present the weekday breakfast show with John Warnett. In late 2018, she was joined by Ian Collins as co-presenter, who took over from John Warnett. In 2020, as a result of changes to BBC Local Radio made in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the length of the show was extended, and the show was broadcast between 6am and 10am; Cookson also became the sole presenter of the show. Cookson is the co-author, alongside her father Paul Cookson, of a play aimed at children that explores the

parable of the Good Samaritan The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. A Jewish priest and then a Levite ...

in a modern way. She is also the author of two novels. In November 2019, she began being a national ambassador for the Neighbourhood Prayer Network.

Personal life

Cookson likes travelling and running. She is married.

References

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