Caroline Wyatt

Caroline Wyatt (born 21 April 1967 ) is an Australian-born English journalist. She presents the Saturday edition of PM on BBC Radio 4. She has worked as a BBC News journalist for over 25 years, as defence correspondent until August 2014, when she replaced Robert Pigott as religious affairs correspondent until June 2016, when she revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Wyatt was adopted by a British diplomat, and his Swiss-born wife. She has two brothers.

Wyatt was educated at the independent Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Woldingham, Surrey, and then studied English and German at Southampton University, which also included six months of study at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at the New Brunswick, New Jersey campus in the US. After graduating from Southampton, she studied for a post-graduate diploma in print journalism at City University, London.

Career Wyatt joined the BBC in 1991 as a news and current affairs trainee. She undertook work for Newsroom South East and the local station in Birmingham.

Wyatt chaired the selection jury of the 2008 "Bayeux-Calvados Awards" for war correspondents.

Radio presenting Wyatt has presented for BBC Radio on the Radio 4 network programmes The World Tonight, From Our Own Correspondent and the Saturday edition of PM (of which she is currently the regular presenter), as well as Europe Today, Newshour and Outlook on the BBC World Service. She has also co-presented Euronews on the BBC Radio 5 Live network. In January 2017, Wyatt travelled to Mexico for experimental treatment of her illness, involving a stem-cell transplant.