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Last updated: 10 march, 2009 - 12:29 GMT

Bridget Kendall

Bridget Kendall

  • Bridget currently hosts the programme The Forum
  • She is also a BBC diplomatic correspondent and has been since 1998
  • She was a foreign correspondent in Moscow (1989-94) and Washington (1994-98)
  • The first woman to win the James Cameron Award for distinguished Journalism (1992)
  • In 1994 she was made an MBE
  • Speaks fluent Russian and French

I never expected to become a broadcast journalist. For the first two weeks in the job I had nightmares of terror every night. Then I decided I loved it and was hooked for life!

Listen to Bridget on

  • Challenging and debating big ideas in one show

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