Sarah Kennedy presented her daily early morning radio show, The Dawn Patrol, on BBC Radio 2 from 1993 to 2010.
23 Facts About Sarah Kennedy
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Sarah Kennedy began her career with the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Singapore in 1973, before moving to BBC Radio 2 in 1976, initially as a newsreader and continuity announcer.
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Sarah Kennedy was on duty for the station's final closedown before it moved to 24-hour broadcasting in January 1979.
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Sarah Kennedy continued to present music shows on Radio 2, including holiday cover for Family Favourites until 1983, mainly appearing on String Sound, featuring the BBC Radio Orchestra.
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Sarah Kennedy was president of the hospital radio station known as "Radio Horton", based in the Horton Hospital, Oxfordshire.
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Sarah Kennedy came to prominence in TV as one of the hosts of the ITV light entertainment show Game for a Laugh from 1981 to 1984.
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Sarah Kennedy was one of the team involved with the short-lived BBC current affairs programme 60 Minutes, which ran from 1983 to 1984, and was the main presenter of the ITV game show Busman's Holiday for several series in the 1980s.
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Sarah Kennedy co-hosted The Animals Roadshow and Animal Country with zoologist Desmond Morris.
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Sarah Kennedy returned to Radio 2 to present the weekday early morning show The Dawn Patrol, which ran between 4 January 1993 and 13 August 2010.
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In 1995, Sarah Kennedy received a prestigious Sony Gold Radio Award.
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Sarah Kennedy had a regular audience of around 4.5 million listeners on Radio 2.
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Sarah Kennedy had been absent for several weeks before this and did not return to the show, as she retired from broadcasting.
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Sarah Kennedy has published a novel, Charlotte's Friends, as well as two collections of listeners' tales, called Terrible Twos and Terrible Pets.
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Sarah Kennedy has sometimes suffered with her health, and has had to take time off work.
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Sarah Kennedy attracted concern after a "bizarre" performance while standing in for Terry Wogan on the Radio 2 breakfast show in 1999.
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Sarah Kennedy blamed the incident on a lack of sleep the previous night and apologised to listeners the following day.
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Sarah Kennedy had been due to stand in for Wogan the following week, but took time off instead, and Bruce took her place.
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Sarah Kennedy presented the following day's show as normal, before taking a month-long break, leaving the show to be presented by colleagues Pete Mitchell, Alex Lester, Aled Jones and Richard Allinson.
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Sarah Kennedy had previously opined that "black men dominate athletics because they are accustomed to being pursued by lions".
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Sarah Kennedy was "spoken to" by BBC bosses after she praised the late Conservative politician Enoch Powell during a show in July 2009, describing Powell as "the best Prime Minister this country never had".
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In May 2014, Sarah Kennedy was banned from driving for 22 months for drunk driving, having crashed into a stationary car.
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Sarah Kennedy has a partner, Adrian McGlynn, a director of Weatherbys, whom she referred to as her "much beloved".
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Sarah Kennedy became a popular character in her show; they met at the wedding of Desmond Morris's son, at which McGlynn was best man.