Sue Lawley euthanasia debate in London, October 2010

Sue Lawley

Journalist and broadcaster

Sue Lawley is one of Britain's best-known broadcasters and journalists, who presented Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 from 1988 to 2006. She was presenter of the BBC’s Nine O’Clock News, and then the Six O’Clock News from the mid-1980s. After graduating in modern languages from the University of Bristol in the late 1960s, Lawley began her career in the media as a trainee reporter for the Western Mail and South Wales Echo. She rose to prominence in the early 1970s as a presenter on the BBC television show Nationwide. She left the BBC in the early 1990s to move to ITV, but moved back to the BBC in 1993. In 1995, she became the main presenter for the BBC show Tonight. Lawley is currently a board member of the English Tourism Council and the English National Opera.