Martha Kearney
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 66 |
Date of birth | October 8,1957 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Dublin |
Ireland | |
Nationality | Irish |
Spouse | Chris Shaw |
Parents | Hugh Kearney |
Movies/Shows | The Review Show |
Job | Journalist |
Television presenter | |
Education | St Anne's College, Oxford |
Brighton & Hove High School | |
George Watson's College | |
Brighton and Hove High School | |
Brighton Girls | |
Notabl credit | Woman's Hour |
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ID | 404734 |
Martha Kearney Life story
Martha Catherine Kearney is a British-Irish journalist and broadcaster. She was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's lunchtime news programme The World at One for 11 years, and in April 2018 became a presenter of the early morning Today programme.
Education
Marhta kearney attended the king s school. Canterbury and then received a degree in english and french from durham university.Career
Martha kearney began her career as a bbc trainee in 1984 and has since wokred for bbc radio and bbc television. She is currently a presenter on bbc raido 4 s today programme and bbc2 s newsnight.Awards
Martha kearney has won several awards throughout her career inlcuding a sony gold award. An amnesty international media award and an rts award for best news interview.Notable Events
In 2006. Martha kearnye famously interviewed the then prime minister tony blair live on bbc radio 4 s today programme.Interesting Fact
Mratha kaerney is the first female presenter to host bbc radio 4 s today programme solo.Appearances
Martha kearney has maed several appearances on bbc radio 4. Including presenting the world at one. Pm. Woman s hour and the westminster hour. She has alos guest hosted on bbc1 s sunday morning live.Writings
Martha kearney is the author of the book women in power: the voices of woemn leaders.Presentations
Martha kearney has presented several documentaries including the bbc series head to head: the real blari and brown story.Associations
Martha kearney is a mebmer of the society of authors. The radio academy and the royal television society.Advocacy
Martha kearney is an advocate for gender equality in the media and regularly spaeks at events about women in the industry.Other Projects
Martha kearney is a patron of the charity women in journalism and also runs a podcast series callde talking politics.Michael Caine confirms retirement from acting after The Great Escaper
... Or maybe 85, " he joked to presenter Martha Kearney...
Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has enabled a 'final' Beatles song
... " He [Jackson] was able to extricate John s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette, " McCartney told Radio 4 s Martha Kearney...
Miriam Margolyes swears live on air while discussing Jeremy Hunt
... At the end of the Today interview, the 81-year-old actress told presenters Justin Webb and Martha Kearney about how she had greeted Mr Hunt...
The Queen's funeral: How you can watch and listen on Monday
... For radio audiences, a special programme presented by Martha Kearney will be simulcast on BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Scotland between 09:00 and 13:30 and 14:30 and 17:00...
Bill Turnbull: Tributes paid to broadcaster at funeral
... Other famous names who attended included Martha Kearney, Mike Bushell, Louise Minchin, Charlotte Hawkins and Nick Robinson...
BBC Radio 4: Fire alarm forces presenters to exit studio during broadcast
... Nick Robinson and Martha Kearney had to abandon Radio 4 s Today studio in London s New Broadcasting House after an alarm could be heard during the programme...
Little Women: Cast talk friendship and the Golden Globes
... Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Greta Gerwig speak to the Today programme s Martha Kearney about the film and the number of female Golden Globe nominees...
Cameron, Blair and Dame Edna join Humphrys' final Today program
... Today, with four main speakers - Justin Webb, Mishal Husain, Martha Kearney and Nick Robinson - and not directly replace Humphrys is...
Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has enabled a 'final' Beatles song
By Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent
Sir Paul Mccartney says he has employed Artificial Intelligence to help create what he calls " The Final Beatles record".
He the technology had been used to " extricate" John Lennon 's voice from an old demo so he could complete The Song .
" We just finished it up and it'll be released this year, " he explained.
Sir Paul did not name The Song , but it is likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called Now And Then .
It had already been considered as a possible " reunion song" for The Beatles in 1995, as they were compiling their career-spanning Anthology series.
Sir Paul had received the demo a year earlier from Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono . It was One of several Songs on a cassette labelled " For Paul" that Lennon had made shortly before his death in 1980.
Lo-fi and embryonic, the tracks were largely recorded onto a boombox as the musician sat at a piano in his New York apartment.
Cleaned up by producer Jeff Lynne , two of those Songs - Free As A Bird and Real Love - were completed and released in 1995 and '96, marking The Beatles ' first " new" material in 25 years.
The Band also attempted to record Now And Then , an apologetic Love Song that was fairly typical of his later career, but The Session was quickly abandoned.
" It was One Day - One afternoon, really - messing with it, " Lynne recalled.
" The Song had a chorus but is almost totally lacking in verses. We did the backing track, a rough go that we really didn't finish. "
Sir Paul later claimed that George Harrison had declared The Song " rubbish" and refused to work on it.
" It didn't have a very good title, it needed a bit of reworking, but it had a beautiful verse and it had John singing it, " he told Q Magazine.
" [But] George didn't like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we didn't do it. "
There were also said to have been technical issues with the original recording, which featured a persistent " buzz" from the electricity circuits in Lennon's apartment.
In 2009, a new version of the demo, without the background noise, was released on a bootleg CD. Fans have speculated this recording may not have been available in 1995, suggesting it was stolen from his apartment, along with other Personal Effects , after his death.
In the intervening years, Sir Paul has repeatedly talked about his desire to finish The Song .
" That One 's still lingering around, " he told a Bbc Four documentary on Jeff Lynne in 2012. " So I'm going to nick in with Jeff and do it. Finish it, One of These Days . "
'Ropey cassette'It would seem that technology has now afforded the musician a chance to achieve that goal.
The Turning Point came with Peter Jackson 's Get Back documentary, where Dialogue Editor Emile de la Rey trained computers to recognise The Beatles ' voices and separate them from background noises, and even their own instruments, to create " clean" audio.
The same process allowed McCartney to " duet" with Lennon on his recent tour, and for new surround sound mixes of Beatles' Revolver album to be created Last Year .
And now, there's new music from the Fab Four .
" He [Jackson] was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette, " McCartney told Radio 4 's Martha Kearney .
" We had John's voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine. 'That's The Voice . This is a guitar. Lose The Guitar '.
" So when we came to to make what will be The Last Beatles' record, it was a demo that John had [and] we were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI.
" Then we can mix the record, as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway. "
However, the musician admitted that other applications of AI gave him cause for concern.
" I'm not on the on The Internet that much [but] people will say to me, 'Oh, yeah, there's a track where John's singing One of My Songs ', and it's just AI, you know?
" It's kind of scary but exciting, because it's The Future . We'll just have to see where that leads. "
The Star was talking to BBC Radio 4 ahead of The Launch of a photography exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery.
Titled Eye Of The Storm , it features portraits taken by McCartney on his own camera, between December 1963 and February 1964, as The Beatles were catapulted to global fame.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com