Barbara Sturgeon

Barbara Sturgeon is a British radio presenter and winner of two Sony Radio Awards for a show she presented on BBC Radio Kent during the 1980s. Sturgeon subsequently presented an early weekend morning programme for BBC Radio 2 in 1992/93, but returned to Radio Kent subsequently, where she presented a lunchtime current affairs show until leaving the station in 2004.

Career

Sturgeon's broadcasting career began in 1983 when she joined BBC Radio Medway (later BBC Radio Kent) and presented reports for the BBC from Northern Ireland during the height of the Troubles, and a Teabreak feature. She went on from this to front the Drivetime show for BBC Radio Kent, as well as a Sunday request show, where she spent two years presenting an early breakfast show on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

In the 1990s, Sturgeon returned to BBC Radio Kent to host another lunchtime show, following a format similar to that of her original programme. One of the topics covered on the show was that of animal welfare, and in 1998, she was awarded the RSPCA Local Media Award for this. In 2004 following twenty years with the BBC, Sturgeon left BBC Radio Kent to pursue other projects inside and outside the media.