Sue Lawley
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Sue Lawley (born July 14, 1946) is a well-known and popular English broadcaster.
Born in Sedgley, England and was brought up in the Black Country, she graduated in Languages from the University of Bristol and some time later started at the BBC in Plymouth. In 1972, she became well-known as one of the presenters of the BBC's TV news magazine Nationwide in the 1970s until the show came to a close in 1984. She has appeared as a newsreader on radio and TV and in a number of other broadcasting roles, in particular, the BBC's Six O'Clock News and since 1988, presenting Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.
Her second marriage was in 1987, was to a television executive.
It is often rumoured that Sting (the pop singer Gordon Sumner) had a crush on Sue Lawley, because his vocals on the 1980 Police hit So Lonely sounded like Sue Lawley.
External Links
- BBC Biography (http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/radio4/suelawley.shtml)