Annie Nightingale Biography
Annie Nightingale an English radio and television broadcaster famous as the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 back in 1970, and is its longest-serving presenter.
Annie Nightingale Age
Nightingale was born on 1st of April 1940, in Osterley, Isleworth, United Kingdom.
Annie Nightingale Height
She stands tall at an average body height
Annie Nightingale Family
Nightingale was born the daughter of Celia and Basil Nightingale.
Annie Nightingale Husband
Nightingale is married to Binky Baker as of 1978. She was prevously married to Gordon Thomas. Baker is an actor known for his role in London’s Burning 1988, Gangster No.1 2000, and Moon and Son 1992.
Annie Nightingale Net Worth
Nightingale has an estimated Net Worth of $ 1 million – $ 10 million
Annie Nightingale Education
She enrolled at St Catherine’s School, Twickenham, Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, Middlesex (by scholarship), and later joined the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) School of Journalism.
Annie Nightingale Career
She started off her career as a journalist, broadcaster, columnist, TV host, and fashion boutique owner, embracing the revolutionary years of her youth in the 1960s amid The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, David Bowie, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, and other leading pop artists and writers.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, she penned columns for the Daily Express, the Daily Sketch, Petticoat, and Cosmopolitan magazine. She started off working with BBC Radio 1 in 1970, being the first national female DJ on the BBC, and has remained a broadcaster there ever since.
Her first broadcast on the BBC was on 14 September 1963 as a panelist on Juke Box Jury, and she contributed to Woman’s Hour in 1964 and hosted programs on the BBC Light Programme in 1966.
She started at BBC Radio 1 on 8 February 1970 with a Sunday evening show. The show was short-lived and in April she became one of the hosts of the singles review show What’s New before graduating to a late-night progressive rock show, Sounds of the 70s, with Alan Black, John Peel, Bob Harris, Pete Drummond, and Mike Harding which was simulcast on the BBC Radio 2’s FM frequency.
Annie Nightingale Books
2020 – Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades.
1999 -Wicked Speed
1981 -Chase the Fade: Music.