Debbie Thrower is the founder and pioneer of Anna Chaplaincy for Older People, part of The Bible Reading Fellowship, BRF.
11 Facts About Debbie Thrower
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Debbie Thrower was born in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and spent her early childhood there before she and her family came back to England, settling in Devon.
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Debbie Thrower was educated at Edgehill College, formerly a girls' independent school in Bideford, Devon, and the University of London where she obtained a degree in French.
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Debbie Thrower began her broadcasting career at BBC Radio Leicester, before moving to BBC Radio Solent in the early 1980s, and then transferring to television as the co-presenter of BBC South Today.
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Debbie Thrower became a regular presenter on Songs of Praise, and the Sunday programme on BBC Radio 4.
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Debbie Thrower's final show as presenter of Meridian Tonight was on 6 February 2009.
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Debbie Thrower was latterly the final presenter for Channel 4's popular antiques programme Collectors' Lot, which aired on weekday afternoons, gaining two million viewers a day.
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Debbie Thrower had a BBC Radio 2 afternoon show between 1995 and 1998 replacing long-time presenter Gloria Hunniford.
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On 13 January 2009, Debbie Thrower confirmed in an interview with The News in Portsmouth that she was leaving ITV Meridian to concentrate on freelance work and her voluntary ministry as a Church of England reader or Licensed Lay Minister.
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Debbie Thrower went on to pioneer Anna Chaplaincy to Older People which started in Alton, the result of a covenant-signing between Anglicans and Methodists to collaborate more closely.
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The Abingdon-based charity is helping to develop Anna Chaplaincy for older people of which Debbie Thrower is founder and pioneer.