Sarah Sands Biography
Sarah Sands is a British author and journalist. She was the editor of Today on BBC Radio 4 from 2017 to 2020, having previously worked as the editor of the London Evening Standard.
How old is Sarah Sands? – Age
She is 62 years old as of 3 May 2023. He was born in 1961 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom.
Sarah Sands Family – Education
Sands was born to parents who worked in the foreign civil service. Kit Hesketh-Harvey, of the musical duet Kit and The Widow, is Sands’ younger sister. She attended Kent College in Pembury, on the outskirts of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, which was a Methodist school before becoming an interdenominational, boarding and day independent school for girls. She went on to study at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Sarah Sands Husband – Children
Sands has a son with her first husband, actor Julian Sands, with whom she divorced in 1987. Her second marriage was to Kim Fletcher, a former Telegraph group editorial director and editor of The Independent on Sunday, with whom she had two children.
Sarah Sands Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Sarah Sands Career
Sands began his career as a news writer for The Sevenoaks Chronicle before going to the Evening Standard, where he worked as the editor of the Londoner’s Diary before becoming features editor and associate editor. She joined The Daily Telegraph as deputy editor in 1996, reporting to Charles Moore, and eventually took over responsibility for the Saturday edition.
Sands succeeded Dominic Lawson as editor of The Sunday Telegraph in June 2005. She was the first female president. Her vision for the paper’s relaunch in November 2005 was for it to be “like an iPod – full of your favorite things.”
The makeover, however, was not well received by senior management, and Sands was fired as editor of the newspaper on 7 March 2006, after only eight months and twenty days in charge, by Andrew Neil and replaced by Patience Wheatcroft. As a result, many of her modifications as editor were reverted (including changes to the headline typeface).
Sands was hired as a consultant editor for the Daily Mail in April 2006.
She was named editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest’s UK edition in February 2008.It was reported in February 2009 that she will be taking over as deputy editor of the London Evening Standard.She took over as editor of the London Evening Standard after Geordie Greig left for The Mail on Sunday in March 2012.
She was named editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in January 2017 and began work later that year. Sands resigned from the position in late January 2020, the day after BBC News announced substantial layoffs.
Sands is the Deputy Chair of the British Council, as well as the Chair of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council for 2021 and 2022. She is a trustee of the Science Museum, a partner at Hawthorn Advisors, and a member of the Channel 4 and Berkeley Group boards of directors. She is a Global Partnership for Education ambassador, an Associate at the IWM, and a former Trustee of Index on Censorship.
Sands holds honorary fellowships at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and the Reuters Institute. Her most recent novels are The Hedgehog Diaries (2023) and The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life (2021).