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!"