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Anna Raeburn
Anna Raeburn appearing on Channel 4 programme After Dark in 1989
Born (1944-04-03) 3 April 1944 (age 82)
Middlesbrough, England
OccupationsBroadcaster, journalist and author
Children1.
Websiteannaraeburn.com

Anna Raeburn (born 3 April 1944) is a British broadcaster and author who is best known for her role as a radio agony aunt, giving advice on relationships and more general life problems. As a broadcaster, she has worked for Capital Radio, LBC and the original Talk Radio. She has authored two books and currently writes her own weekly blog called "Annalog".[1]

Early life

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Raeburn went to the all-girls Kirby Grammar School in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, north Yorkshire. She moved to London aged 17 and at 19 was working in New York.[2] She worked for Penthouse, Forum and Cosmopolitan.[2][3]

Radio

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Raeburn built her reputation in the 1970s and 1980s on a popular late night problem phone-in show on Capital Radio, called Anna And The Doc. The journalist Vincent Graff said of the show: “If you were a baffled teenager trying to find your way in the world, Anna and the Doc gave you the roadmap.”[4] Her celebrity status was such that in 1978 she was invited onto BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs choosing as her favourite track, "Amazing Grace" by Aretha Franklin.[5] She also had an afternoon advice show on Talk Radio in the late 1990s.[6]

In the early 1990s, Raeburn presented an afternoon show on LBC Crown FM. In 2006, she returned to the station's current incarnation – LBC 97.3 – in the same slot.[6] The show primarily featured listeners ringing in with everyday problems to which Raeburn, often with the assistance of a profes

From January 2007, as part of new year changes, Raeburn's show moved an hour later to 2–4pm as a new lifestyle, health and well-being show, presented by Jim Davis preceding her.

Raeburn presented her last show on LBC 97.3 on 3 August 2007. She had been expected to return in September, but the station announced that her afternoon slot would be rested. Her slot was reallocated, to Jeni Barnett[7] who was later replaced herself.[citation needed]

In February 2021, Raeburn returned to radio, with a Sunday evening programme on Boom Radio. She left the station shortly after.[8][9]

Television

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She co-wrote the television series Agony, starring Maureen Lipman. Raeburn was a critic on the ITV1 daytime show Mum's on Strike in 2005. Other TV appearances included spots as an agony aunt in the early days of GMTV from 1993, a guest on late-night discussion programme After Dark, and as a panellist on comedy game show Blankety Blank. She was an occasional panellist, in the late 1980s, on the panel show Through the Keyhole.[10]

Personal life

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Raeburn's book published in 1984, Talking To Myself, was largely based on her broadcasting career. Her mother died in 1988, her parents were married for 48 years.[11][12]

Her first marriage was to Michael Raeburn in 1977[2] After her divorce, she married Nigel Lilley in 1981, with whom she had a son, Taylor who was born in 1980.[2] She divorced Lilley after 20 years. She is a grandmother to her son's daughter.[13]

In October 2020, Raeburn said that she had the eye condition macular degeneration, and was receiving treatment at Moorfields Eye Hospital.[14]

References

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  1. ↑ "Annalog". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Graham, Natalie (22 June 2003). "Fame & Fortune: Agony aunt has fallen on hard times". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 20 March 2018. (subscription required)
  3. ↑ Barber, Lynn (24 October 2010). "How Penthouse was built on a wing and a prayer". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 4 August 2021. (subscription required)
  4. ↑ "Hall of Fame". Radio Academy. Archived from the original on 5 December 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Anna Raeburn". BBC. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  6. 1 2 Graff, Vincent (2 January 2006). "The fall and rise of Anna Raeburn". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  7. ↑ LBC Radio Archived January 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ "Boom Radio Launch Announced". Boom Radio. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  9. ↑ Clark, Alex (21 February 2021). "Hello, boomers' radio. How did you end up in the culture wars?". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  10. ↑ Through the Keyhole (TV Series 1987– ) - IMDb. Retrieved 31 January 2025 – via www.imdb.com.
  11. ↑ "sweet nothings". Annalog. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  12. ↑ "AGONY AUNT ANNA'S FURY AS HUSBAND NO2 WALKS OUT ON HER; EXCLUSIVE New love is nurse he met at golf club. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  13. ↑ "'cos we're 'ere". Annalog. 3 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  14. ↑ Raeburn, Anna (13 October 2020). "Annablog (weekly)". annaraeburn.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
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