Last updated October 2008
Category: News
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Kate Silverton currently presents the news on the BBC News channel
and the One O' Clock News every Monday.
Kate also presents regularly for BBC Breakfast, and she has recently
fronted Olympic Heroes Return, a special programme to interview the
British medallists after they touched down at Heathrow.
Kate has recently made the move to present BBC prime time documentaries including
Big Cat Live and My Family At War, to be broadcast later this year.
Earlier this year Kate introduced live coverage to celebrate 90 years of
the Royal Air Force and provided the commentary for the Windsor Tattoo
in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.
In 2007 she launched the new 8.00pm news update on BBC One, and took over
presenting the BBC One O'Clock News when Sophie Raworth went on maternity leave
in early 2008.
Kate combines her roles with work on a number of other journalistic
assignments at home and abroad including special reports for BBC One's
Panorama.
Her previous reports for the programme have included investigations into
flood prevention and the consequences of delayed motherhood and falling
birth rates and fertility in the UK.
She is well known to a wider audience after presenting the prime time
BBC One feature Ultimate Wild Water in 2007 – where she abandoned the
safety of her BBC studio to embark on an adrenalin-fuelled journey of
discovery through Britain's fastest flowing rivers and most turbulent
seas.
Most recently, Kate tackled the Top Gear race track in extremely wet
conditions and made a guest appearance on Have I Got News For You.
In July 2006 she presented a special 7/7 anniversary broadcast from
Tavistock Square, London.
Kate has had a varied career, working as a corporate financier in the
City before changing direction to work in the media.
She trained as a
broadcast journalist with the BBC in Newcastle.
From her traffic and travel days for BBC Radio Newcastle she moved to the BBC political programme North Of Westminster where she met and interviewed many political figures.
Kate was later recruited by Tyne Tees Television to work as a reporter
and newsreader for the main evening news.
Other credits include presenting for Five's The Wright Stuff and 3D – a political debate progamme for Sky TV – as well as BBC Radio 5 Live's Weekend Breakfast show with Brian Alexander.
She also presented alongside Rod Liddle on the BBC's political programme
Weekend With Rod Liddle And Kate Silverton.
In 2005 she presented the BBC's special programme on debt and spending,
Hey Big Spender, with Dermot Murnaghan.
Kate graduated from the University of Durham with a BSc in Psychology.
She studied Arabic and Middle Eastern history for a year, fuelling an
interest in Middle East politics following a stay on a Kibbutz in Israel
and then travelling with Bedouin tribesmen in Egypt.
