Fran Abrams
British investigative journalist for BBC Radio 4, and non-fiction author
About Fran Abrams
Born 1963. Fran Abrams is a British radio personality and bBC Radio 4.
Frances Gillian Abrams (born 1963) is a British investigative journalist for BBC Radio 4, and a non-fiction author. Earlier in her career she was a journalist for The Independent.
Early life and education Abrams was born and brought up in Stockport, where she attended Marple Hall County High School. She studied sociology at the University of York and then took a one-year course in journalism in Sheffield.
Publications Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage, 18 July 2002, Profile Books, Freedom's Cause: Lives of the Suffragettes, 2003, Profile Books, Seven Kings: How it Feels to be a Teenager, 14 September 2006, Atlantic Books, Learning to Fail: How Society Lets Young People Down, 2010, Routledge, Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood, 1 November 2012, Atlantic Books,
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British investigative journalist for BBC Radio 4, and non-fiction author
When was Fran Abrams born?
Fran Abrams was born in 1963 in Cheshire.
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Fran Abrams is a radio personality and bBC Radio 4.
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