Dame Jennifer Gita Abramsky, DBE (born 7 October 1946) is chairman of the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF). The NHMF makes grants to preserve heritage of outstanding national importance. Until her retirement from the BBC Jenny Abramsky was its most senior woman employee; she was Director of Audio and Music. She is the daughter of Professor Chimen Abramsky and the granddaughter of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky. She was educated at Holland Par...
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Dame Jennifer Gita Abramsky, DBE (born 7 October 1946) is chairman of the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF). The NHMF makes grants to preserve heritage of outstanding national importance. Until her retirement from the BBC Jenny Abramsky was its most senior woman employee; she was Director of Audio and Music. She is the daughter of Professor Chimen Abramsky and the granddaughter of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky. She was educated at Holland Park School in London and the University of East Anglia, where she read English.
In 1969, Abramsky joined the BBC as a programmes operations assistant, and in 1973 was appointed as a producer of The World at One. She became the first woman editor of the agenda-setting Today programme, ran the first Gulf War Radio 4 News FM service, and went on to launch Britain's first continuous news and sport radio station, Five Live, before launching the television channel BBC News 24. She also launched the BBC's online news website, news.bbc.co.uk which...
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