Anna Foster

Who is Anna Foster?

Anna Foster is an English radio news reporter and presenter, currently presenting the early evening programme 5 Live Drive with Peter Allen on Wednesday to Friday.

The daughter of a surveyor/magistrate father and mother who worked as a nurse, she and her brother were born in South Shields. Educated in South Shields, while attending South Tyneside College doing her A-Levels, she worked as a Saturday girl on Metro Radio. Then while studying English at Collingwood College at Durham University, she worked on student radio. She then undertook a post-graduate certificate in journalism at City University London.

On graduation she joined the BBC's trainee reporters scheme. She then joined BBC Radio Cleveland as a reporter for three years, before becoming a news presenter, and then co-presenting the drive-time show. She then joined BBC Radio 5 Live as a regional North East reporter, before relocating to London as a weekend news presenter, and also presenting on Newsbeat.

Foster joined the BBC Radio 5 Live Weekend Breakfast show on 23 April 2011, replacing Rachel Burden who moved to the weekday 5 Live Breakfast team alongside Nicky Campbell on 3 May.