Sian Williams

Sian Mary Williams (born 28 November 1964) is a BBC journalist and current affairs presenter. Since 2005, she has been co-anchor of BBC Breakfast on Mondays to Thursdays allongside Bill Turnbull. She also regularly presented the News at Six and occasionally presented the News at One and the News at Ten. Williams was born in London to Welsh parents, and raised in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Her family hailed from Llanelli, South Wales. She gained a B... more

Sian Mary Williams (born 28 November 1964) is a BBC journalist and current affairs presenter. Since 2005, she has been co-anchor of BBC Breakfast on Mondays to Thursdays allongside Bill Turnbull. She also regularly presented the News at Six and occasionally presented the News at One and the News at Ten. Williams was born in London to Welsh parents, and raised in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Her family hailed from Llanelli, South Wales. She gained a BA in English and History from Oxford Polytechnic, and was also a student of Japanese and international business at Liverpool John Moores University. Prior to her career in television journalism, Williams spent over a decade with BBC Radio after joining the corporation in 1985. Williams worked on BBC Local Radio in Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester before becoming a producer and reporter in Liverpool. Williams later joined a national spoken word network, BBC Radio 4, as a producer on The World at One and PM programmes. Williams spent the next few... less