British investigative journalist and author
Fran Abrams
Born 1963 (age 60–61) Occupation(s) British investigative journalist for BBC Radio 4 , and non-fiction author
Frances Gillian Abrams (born 1963) is a British investigative journalist for BBC Radio 4 , and a non-fiction author. Earlier in her career she was a journalist for The Independent .
Early life and education
Abrams was born and brought up in Stockport ,[ 1] where she attended Marple Hall County High School .[ 2] She studied sociology at the University of York and then took a one-year course in journalism in Sheffield .[ 1]
Career
Her first job in journalism was with the Birmingham Post and Mail group where she first reported on education, going on to be education correspondent for The Sunday Times , The Sunday Correspondent , The Sunday Telegraph and lastly The Independent , where she later switched to reporting on national politics.[ 1]
Abrams left The Independent in 2000, when she made investigative programmes for BBC Radio 4 's File on 4 and written features for The Guardian .[ 1]
Personal life
Abrams lives in Snape, Suffolk where she runs a small chocolate making business using honey from the bees which she keeps.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Publications
Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage , 18 July 2002, Profile Books , ISBN 186197471X [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
Freedom's Cause: Lives of the Suffragettes , 2003, Profile Books, ISBN 9781861974259 [ 11] [ 12]
Seven Kings: How it Feels to be a Teenager , 14 September 2006, Atlantic Books, ISBN 1843544458 [ 13]
Learning to Fail: How Society Lets Young People Down , 2010, Routledge , ISBN 0203864824 [ 14]
Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood , 1 November 2012, Atlantic Books , ISBN 1843548968 [ 15]
References
^ a b c d "Meet the team" . BBC News . 5 October 2004.
^ Abrams, Fran (23 September 2009). "In search of the lost generation" . Prospect .
^ "Author Bio". Learning to Fail: How Society Lets Young People Down . Routledge . 22 September 2009. ISBN 978-0203864821 . Retrieved 23 November 2014 .
^ Fran Abrams | LinkedIn Retrieved 2016-10-13.
^ Sinfully delicious chocolates Retrieved 2016-10-13.
^ Livingstone, Sophie (19 August 2002). "The twilight zone. Below the Breadline, Fran Abrams, Profile Books, 192pp, £6.99". New Statesman . 131 (4601): 37–38. ISSN 1364-7431 .
^ Bambra, Clare (November 2003). "The poverty of journalism?". Critical Social Policy . 23 (4): 547–550. doi :10.1177/02610183030234006 . ISSN 0261-0183 . S2CID 144012010 .
^ Hall, Tom (July 2004). "Through a Glass Darkly: Undercover in Low-pay Britain and America". Sociology . 38 (3): 623–630. doi :10.1177/0038038504043223 . ISSN 0038-0385 . S2CID 143335033 .
^ Devitt, Stewart (26 September 2002). "Below the Breadline (Book)". People Management . 8 (19): 58. ISSN 1358-6297 .
^ Barker, Paul (30 August 2002). "The lower reaches of the Savoy" . Times Literary Supplement (5187): 22. ISSN 0307-661X . Retrieved 11 April 2019 .
^ "Freedom's Cause: Lives of the Suffragettes (Book)". Contemporary Review . 284 (1659): 256. April 2004. ISSN 0010-7565 .
^ Liddington, Jill (23 July 2004). "Sibling rivalries and other tales of sisterhood" . Times Higher Education Supplement (1650): 28–29. ISSN 0049-3929 . Retrieved 11 April 2019 .
^ Apter, Terri (15 September 2006). "SEVEN KINGS". Times Literary Supplement (5398): 31. ISSN 0307-661X .
^ Paylor, Ian (March 2010). "Learning to Fail: How Society Lets Young People Down, Fran Abrams, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, pp. 167, ISBN 978 0 415 48396 4 (pb), £18.99". The British Journal of Social Work . 40 (2): 685–687. doi :10.1093/bjsw/bcq007 . ISSN 1468-263X .
^ Stevenson, Talitha (2 November 2012). "Seen and not heard". New Statesman . 141 (5130): 49–50. ISSN 1364-7431 .
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