Anna Raeburn

Anna Raeburn (born 3 April 1944) is a British broadcaster and author who is best known for her role as a radio agony aunt, giving advice on relationships and more general life problems. As a broadcaster, she has worked for Capital Radio, LBC and the original Talk Radio. She has authored two books and currently writes her own weekly blog called "Annalog".

Early life Raeburn went to the all-girls Kirby Grammar School in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, north Yorkshire. She moved to London aged 17 and at 19 was working in New York.

Radio Raeburn built her reputation in the 1970s and 1980s on a popular late night problem phone-in show on Capital Radio, called Anna And The Doc. The journalist Vincent Graff said of the show: “If you were a baffled teenager trying to find your way in the world, Anna and the Doc gave you the roadmap.” Her celebrity status was such that in 1978 she was invited onto BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs choosing as her favourite track, "Amazing Grace" by Aretha Franklin. She also had an afternoon advice show on Talk Radio in the late 1990s.

In the early 1990s, Raeburn presented an afternoon show on LBC Crown FM. In 2006, she returned to the station's current incarnation – LBC 97.3 – in the same slot. who was later replaced herself.

In February 2021, Raeburn returned to radio, with a Sunday evening programme on Boom Radio. She left the station shortly after.

Television She co-wrote the television series Agony, starring Maureen Lipman. Raeburn was a critic on the ITV1 daytime show Mum's on Strike in 2005. Other TV appearances included spots as an agony aunt in the early days of GMTV from 1993, a guest on late-night discussion programme After Dark, and as a panellist on comedy game show Blankety Blank. She was an occasional panellist, in the late 1980s, on the panel show Through the Keyhole.

Personal life Raeburn's book published in 1984, Talking To Myself, was largely based on her broadcasting career. Her mother died in 1988, her parents were married for 48 years.

Her first marriage was to Michael Raeburn in 1977 She divorced Lilley after 20 years. She is a grandmother to her son's daughter.

In October 2020, Raeburn said that she had the eye condition macular degeneration, and was receiving treatment at Moorfields Eye Hospital.