Annie Nightingale parents: Meet Basil Nightingale & Celia Nightingale

Annie Avril Nightingale CBE was an English radio and television broadcaster. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 in 1970. Nightingale specialized in championing new and underground music, she also led the movement and encouraged other women to become DJs and broadcasters.

Annie Nightingale’s parents: Meet Basil Nightingale & Celia Nightingale

The English radio and television broadcaster is the daughter of Basil Nightingale, her father, and Celia Nightingale, her mother. Nightingale’s mother is known for her work on Write Me (2019).

After attending St Catherine’s School, Twickenham, Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, Middlesex (by scholarship), and the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) School of Journalism, Nightingale began her career as a journalist in Brighton, East Sussex.

During the early to mid-1960s, Nightingale worked in television, both as a reporter for BBC’s Southampton and Bristol-based news program South Today, and light entertainment and music programs for the ITV Network Southern TV (now ITV Meridian).