Pamela Armstrong (born 25 August 1951 in Kalimantan, Borneo) is a British journalist and news presenter.

Background

Armstrong's career in journalism started with Capital Radio where she presented the daily news and current affairs programme ''

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''. She also spent six months reporting on

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, the expedition that retraced the round-the-world voyage of the great explorer. She sailed in a square-rigged

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from

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Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

taking in the Galapagos,

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and Fiji on the way. She presented two series of the health programme ''Wellbeing'' on

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. It proved highly popular and was one of the channel's earliest successes. She worked for

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as a newscaster from 1983 to 1986. After leaving ITV in 1986, she joined the BBC where she co-presented '' Breakfast Time'' as well as hosting Britain's first chat show to be broadcast five days a week, ''The Pamela Armstrong Show''.

Education

Armstrong was educated in

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and Britain.

Books

Armstrong has written a book, ''Beating the Biological Clock''. She now works as an after dinner speaker and in corporate communications.

References

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