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She studied Classical Civilisation and Philosophy at the University Of Kent ( 1987 - 1990 ). In 1993 she started her BBC career as a reporter on various Local Radio stations including BBC Somerset Sound , Humberside , Northampton and GLR . She won a silver Sony Award from her GLR breakfast show (she won a bronze Sony with Five Live in 2002). In 1997, she joined BBC Radio Five Live , where she spent seven years as a key broadcaster in news and political coverage, and presenting the afternoon show, the mirthful late-night phone-in programme and the ''Sunday Service'' programme with Charlie Whelan . She is the host of BBC Radio 4 's 'Saturday Live', and former host of Sunday morning news analysis programme '' Broadcasting House '', which she took over from Eddie Mair in 2004 . She lives with Rick Jones, an executive with John Lewis . Taking maternity leave in December 2005 and giving birth to a son, Hector, in January 2006, she returned to regular broadcasting to take over the Radio 4 Saturday 9am slot (which was formerly occupied by John Peel 's '' Home Truths '') with a new programme, '' Saturday Live '' and to present ''Traveller's Tree'' on Thursday afternoons. In esque mistake by a news reader. The radio stations documented in the book include a temporary BBC station for the Euro 2000 football tournament, run from a cafe in Belgium , an English language station in Geneva , a station run by Irish UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon and Montserrat Radio which broadcast throughout the 1996 Volcanic Eruption . She met her future husband, Mark Sandell, when he was the producer of Nicky Campbell 's programme. They married in 2001 but divorced in 2002. He went on to form a relationship with Victoria Derbyshire , with whom he fathered a son in January 2004. She has occasionally stood in for Jeremy Vine on his lunchtime show on Radio 2 . EXTERNAL LINKS
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