Anna Hill is a British radio presenter and journalist. She presents Farming Today on BBC Radio 4.
Education
Hill has a post-graduate diploma in radio journalism from the London College of Printing.
Career
Hill's first job involved sewing trousers for a company in Wiltshire.
Following the completion of her journalistic training, Hill worked for a year and a half at a number of local radio stations. She joined the BBC as a reporter in 1986.
In the 1990s, Hill was a continuity announcer and newsreader at BBC Radio 4.
In 1995, Hill joined Farming Today, a programme covering news relating to, and current affairs within, UK agriculture, on BBC Radio 4. As of September 2017, she had been a presenter of the programme for over 20 years. She remains a presenter of the programme, along with Charlotte Smith and Caz Graham.
As of 2019, Hill had been a director of the Oxford Farming Conference since 2017.
As of 2023, Hill was also a presenter of On Your Farm on BBC Radio 4.
Hill has also chaired conferences, such as an OECD Rural Development conference. She has also reported for Countryfile and the BBC World Service about agricultural issues in countries other than the UK. She won Gold Sony Award for an episode of On Your Farm which featured a family whose dairy farm had been flooded.
Personal life
Hill grew up in Dorset, and in a 2017 interview described herself as a fan of the poetry of Henry Thoreau and of kayaking. As of 2019, she lived in Norwich.
References
- ^ "First International Workshop on Farm Radio Broadcasting". www.fao.org. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
- ^ "I never said... Q&A with Anna Hill | Oxford Farming Conference". www.ofc.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
- ^ "Three new directors join the OFC Council | Oxford Farming Conference". www.ofc.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
- ^ "My Countryside interview: Anna Hill". www.countryfile.com. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
- "BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm, Strawberries All Year Round". BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-15.