Miriam oreilly biography
Miriam oreilly biography
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Miriam O'Reilly
Miriam O'Reilly (born 19 February 1957) is a television presenter, best known as a former presenter on the BBC One rural affairs show Countryfile.[1]
Early life and career
The daughter of an Irishfarmer who came to England in the 1960s,[2] O'Reilly left school aged seventeen, keen to be a journalist.
She applied for newspaperapprenticeships while working several jobs, including work on the children's television programme Tiswas.[3] She then worked for the BBC on the Radio 4 programmes Farming Today,Costing the Earth and Woman's Hour. She also worked as a television presenter, on field and specialist reports, perhaps most notably on Countryfile.
After she was dropped from Countryfile in 2009, she successfully sued the BBC for age discrimination, saying at the start of her court case that she could no longer watch the programme after being axed from it, as it was too emotionally painful.[4][5] During the hearing, former BBC One Controller