Roisin McAuley is a BBC

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and currently presents Sunday Sequence.

Biography

She grew up in

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went to a convent boarding school, and then to

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to study history. She joined

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in 1969 and was the broadcaster's first Catholic female newsreader and announcer. She went on to become a reporter for BBC programmes such as ''Spotlight'', '' Newsnight'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. She has also produced and directed television documentaries for

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and

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and written and presented programmes on BBC Radio 3 and 4. McAuley's first two novels, ''Singing Bird'' and ''Meeting Point'', were sold at auction to Headline (world rights) who published in 2004 and 2005. The US rights sold to

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, Dutch rights to House of Books and the German rights to Droemer. The rights to Roisin McAuley's next two books, "Finding Home" and "French Secrets" were sold to

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Books UK in 2005.https://www.linkedin.com/in/roisin-mcauley-54236315 McAuley is the sister of BBC broadcaster and musician Tony McAuley and niece of Glens of Antrim painter Charles McAuley. She lives in Northern Ireland with her husband, Richard.

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