Emily Buchanan Biography
Emily Margesson Buchanan is a successful news British journalist who has worked in both radio and television for the BBC. She is known for her work as a foreign affairs reporter and correspondent. She rose to prominence as the director of Runaway, a short animated adventure film.
How old is Emily Buchanan? – Age
Buchanan was on born 7 October 1958 in Hammersmith, West London. She is 63 years as of 2021.
Where did Emily Buchanan go to school? – Education
She attended Hammersmith’s St. Paul’s Girls’ Institution, an independent school. He attended the University of Sussex, where he studied History, French, and Spanish. Buchanan pursued an MA in Radio Journalism at City University London after graduation, which she obtained in 1982.
Emily Buchanan’s parents
Buchanan was born to author and poet George Buchanan (1904–1989) and the Hon. Janet Margesson, whose father was David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson, a Conservative cabinet member in the 1930s. Her mother, a manic depressive, committed suicide when Buchanan was nine years old.
Emily Buchanan – Family
After experiencing three miscarriages, Buchanan and her husband, Gerald Slocock, explored the possibility of adopting children as their only means of having a family. As the couple wanted to adopt babies, abandoned children from other parts of the world emerged as practically their only option. In her book From China with Love: A Long Road to Motherhood (2005), she outlines the difficulties of the adoption service and discusses the issues relating to the adoption of children from an entirely different culture. She deals with what she sees as “fallacies” attached to the issue. The couple now has two Chinese-born daughters, the first adopted at the beginning of the century, and the second three years later. In her book, the extreme prejudice against baby girls, to a large degree a result of China’s One-child policy, is also outlined.
What is Buchanan’s Salary?
She most likely earns $71,077 per year, which is comparable to a famous journalist in the BBC News network.
Buchanan Net Worth
Her net worth is $8 million.
Buchanan Career
Buchanan began her career at the BBC in Bush House, then the base of the BBC World Service, where her first interview was with Desmond Tutu, and a few years later, joined BBC Radio 4 to produce Stop Press, “a program which went behind the scenes of the journalism trade”. After a period producing The Week in Westminster, she joined BBC Television and worked for BBC 2‘s Assignment program. In 1992, while working in Zimbabwe, Buchanan survived an accident when her plane crash-landed. Her Assignment programs have won awards. One World Media nominated a program about the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which predominantly lends money to women. “The Baby Trade”, also for Assignment, was about unscrupulous practices relating to international adoption in Paraguay. In “Seeds of Hate”, for Radio 4, in November 2000, Buchanan spoke to some of the Muslim women who were raped during the Bosnian War. Towards the end of 1994, she was appointed the corporation’s BBC Developing World Correspondent. Subsequently, she became the Religious Affairs Correspondent for three years, from around 1998 to 2001, and is now the BBC’s World Affairs Correspondent. She has presented the BBC Radio 4 program Sunday.
Buchanan novel
Her best-selling book, From China With Love: A Long Road to Motherhood, is available in paperback for $5.65. The story follows the journey of two foster children from China in their search for a loving family.