1. Bridget Kendall was born on 27 April 1956 and is an English journalist who was the BBC's Diplomatic correspondent working for the corporation's radio and television networks.
17 Facts About Bridget Kendall
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Bridget Kendall has two brothers and three sisters.
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Bridget Kendall was educated at Perse School for Girls, a private school in Cambridge.
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Bridget Kendall then read Modern Languages at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and spent two years in Russia on British Council scholarships in 1977 and 1982.
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Bridget Kendall joined the BBC in 1983 as a radio production trainee for the BBC World Service.
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Bridget Kendall was the BBC's Moscow correspondent from 1989 to 1994, and developed her background in Russian politics.
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Bridget Kendall was in Moscow to witness the power struggles in the Soviet Communist Party as Mikhail Gorbachev tried to introduce reform, and reported on the break-up of the Soviet Union and the internal conflicts in Chechnya, Georgia and Tajikistan.
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Bridget Kendall sent reports of the attempted coup in August 1991 and covered Boris Yeltsin's rise to power.
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Bridget Kendall was the BBC's Washington correspondent from 1994, becoming the Corporation's diplomatic correspondent in November 1998.
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Bridget Kendall speaks fluent Russian, and has interviewed world leaders including two interviews with Vladimir Putin live from the Kremlin as part of internet webcasts in March 2001 and July 2006.
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Bridget Kendall interviewed King Abdullah of Jordan for the BBC later in 2001, and hosted a similar event in Moscow with former Soviet President Gorbachev in 2002.
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Bridget Kendall is the host of the intellectual talk show, The Forum, on BBC World Service radio.
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On 1 February 2016, Bridget Kendall was elected as the first female Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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Bridget Kendall served as Master of Peterhouse until July 2023, and was succeeded by Andy Parker.
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Bridget Kendall married freelance television journalist Nick Worrall in the early 1990s; they later divorced.
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Bridget Kendall is the civil partner of Amanda Farnsworth, former BBC Visual Journalism and Data Editor.
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Bridget Kendall received the James Cameron Award for Journalism in 1992 for reports on events in the former Soviet Union, being the first woman to receive that award.