Francine Stock
Francine Stock (born 14 March 1958) is a British radio and TV presenter and novelist, of part-French origin.
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Early life
Born in Devon, and with early years in Edinburgh and Australia, Stock later attended St Catherine's School, Guildford where she was head girl and is a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian).
Journalism career
After working in specialist journalism on the oil industry, she joined the BBC in 1983. At first she reported on financial news and worked as a radio producer, later moving into television as presenter of Newsnight and (briefly, after serious illness) on The Money Programme on BBC2. She was one of the original presenters of BBC Radio 4's Front Row in 1998, later moving to The Film Programme on radio, which she still presents. In 2008, she presented Visionaries [1] for BBC World News.
Positions
Since 2005, she has been chair of the Tate Members Council.
She became the first female Honorary Fellow of Jesus College in 2007.
Publications
Francine Stock has published two novels: A Foreign Country (1999, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award) and Man-Made Fibre (2002).
Personal life
She is married to Robert Lance Hughes and has two daughters, Rebecca and Eleanor.
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