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 London Today.

She also spent six months reporting on Operation Drake, the expedition that retraced the round-the-world voyage of the great explorer. She sailed in a square-rigged brigantine from Panama to Papua New Guinea taking in the Galapagos, Tahiti and Fiji on the way.[1]

She presented two series of the health programme Wellbeing on Channel 4. It proved highly popular and was one of the channel's earliest successes. She worked for ITN 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.[2][3][4][5]

Education

Armstrong was educated in Sarawak, Indonesia and Britain.[1][2]

Books

Armstrong has written a book, Beating the Biological Clock. She now works as an after dinner speaker and in corporate communications.[6][7][1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pamela Armstrong Speaker - Parliament Speakers". parliamentspeakers.com. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Pamela Armstrong". BFI Film Forever. BFI. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Jackson, Vanessa (2012). "The Pamela Armstrong Show – photo by Maggy Whitehouse". pebblemill.org. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Titchmarsh, Alan (7 January 2016). Alan Titchmarsh: Collected Memoirs: Trowel and Error, Nobbut a Lad, Knave of Spades. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 210. ISBN 9781473633247.
  5. ↑ Robinson, Nick (2013). Live from Downing Street : the inside story of politics, power and the media (paperback ed.). Bantam Press. ISBN 9780857500007.
  6. ↑ Armstrong, Pamela (1996). Beating the biological clock : the joys and challenges of late motherhood. London: Headline. ISBN 978-0747278146.
  7. ↑ "Pamela Armstrong: Journalist, Broadcaster, Author". Retrieved 29 May 2016.
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