Bio

Andrea Catherwood is the presenter of Feedback on BBC Radio 4. Prior to this she presented across Radio 4 programmes including The Media Show, You & Yours, Last Word, Saturday Live and Women's Hour as well as making and presenting documentaries. As an award-winning television and radio presenter and former foreign correspondent for over two decades, she's worked for some of the world's best known broadcasters primarily ITN, BBC, Bloomberg and NBC. Andrea was an anchor for Bloomberg Television presenting the flagship business news, politics and current affairs show ''The Pulse with Andrea Catherwood'' each weekday from London. She played a leading role in covering the global downturn and the Eurozone crisis and regularly interviewed European Prime Ministers and Finance Ministers as well as economists and chief executives. Andrea made her name as newscaster and foreign correspondent at ITN, anchoring ITV1 news bulletins from 1998 to 2006. As International Correspondent she covered almost every world story of the day from Kosovo to Sierra Leone, U.S Presidential elections to airstrikes in Gaza. Before joining ITN, Andrea was based in Hong Kong for 5 years where she covered 1997 handover of the territory from Britain to China and reported extensively from across the region. She began her career in Belfast where she worked for both UTV and BBC N Ireland. Andrea has guest presented ITV's 'This Morning' and regularly reviewed newspapers for the programme. She's also a prolific writer of travel and comment articles for publications including the Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Guardian, Sunday Times and Independent as well as many magazines. Andrea regularly hosts high profile corporate events in the UK and worldwide. She has moderated and chaired dozens of prestigious conferences, debates and award ceremonies around the world. Andrea is a regular judge for the Royal Television Society awards and has been a Costa Book Award judge and chaired the awards panel of the Dalkey Book Festival Literary awards. She has also been a BAFTA judge.