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Catherine Beatrice Margaret Derham (born 18 June 1970) is a British newscaster and a presenter on television and radio.


Early life and education

Derham was born on 18 June 1970 in
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to Margaret, a teacher, and John Derham, a chemist for
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. The family moved to
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within a year of her birth, and she grew up in
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.
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 She was educated at a primary school in
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and at Cheadle Hulme School where she took
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s in French, History and Economics. She then read
economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...
at
Magdalene College Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...
,
Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
, graduating with a BA (Hons).


Broadcasting career


BBC (1995–98)

Derham began her broadcasting career at the
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, starting as a researcher on Radio 4's ''
Money Box ''Money Box'' is a weekly personal finance radio programme on BBC Radio 4, produced by BBC News, currently presented by Paul Lewis. The programme is broadcast live each Saturday in the half-hour slot just after midday. It is repeated on Sunday ev ...
''. In 1995 she won the Bradford & Bingley "Best Personal Finance Broadcaster Award" for her work as a presenter on Radio 5 Live's ''Moneycheck''. She moved to BBC television in 1996 as a consumer affairs correspondent and was also a reporter on the long-running '' Film...'' programme.


ITN (1998–2010)

In 1998 she joined ITN as the Media and Arts Editor for ITV News and, at the age of 27, became the youngest newscaster on British national television since ITN's creation in 1955. In 2004, Derham became the main female presenter of the ''
ITV Lunchtime News The ''ITV Lunchtime News'' is the afternoon news programme produced by ITN on the British television network ITV. It airs Monday to Friday from 1:30pm, covering British national and international news stories and is presented by Nina Hossain. ...
'', and a relief presenter for both the ''
ITV Evening News The ''ITV Evening News'' is the evening news programme produced by ITN on the British television network ITV. It airs Monday to Friday from 6:30pm, covering British national and international news stories and is presented by Mary Nightingale. ...
'' and the ''
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.'' She also co-presented the
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news programme ''
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.'' Derham hosted her final ITV News programme on 25 June 2010.


BBC (2010 onwards)

In April 2010 it was announced that Derham was to return to the BBC. Derham has an arts brief, including fronting the coverage of
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for
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,
BBC Four BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002
and
BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, Radio drama, drama, High culture, culture and the arts ...
. Derham is a presenter of Radio 3's ''Afternoon on 3'' and ''Breakfast'' programmes, having previously presented the ''Hall of Fame Concert'' on Classic FM. In 2008 she presented the ''Traveller's Tree'' series on Radio 4. Derham also makes an occasional guest presenter appearance on '' Saturday Live''. In August 2015 the
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announced that Derham would appear in the thirteenth series of ''
Strictly Come Dancing ''Strictly Come Dancing'' (informally known as ''Strictly'') is a British dance contest show in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance. Each couple is scored by a panel of usually 4 ...
''. Her partner was
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. In week 4, the couple finished top of the leader board. In weeks 9 and 11 they performed their best dances, both earning 35 out of a possible 40. In the semi-final they finished last in both dances and were in the dance-off with
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and
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; the judges voted them through to compete in the final (the first time Anton had done so) where they finished in fourth place. In 2017, she returned for the Christmas Special and was partnered with
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: the couple won the event. In August 2016 Derham presented ''The Girl from Ipanema'', a documentary for BBC Four. In September 2017, she presented coverage of the ''
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'' on BBC Two and BBC One. Since 2017, Derham has been a presenter on '' In Tune'' on BBC Radio 3.


Other work

Derham hosted the
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ceremony four times from 2001 to 2004. In August 2008 she appeared in the BBC Two talent programme ''
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'', where she learnt to conduct orchestral, choral and operatic music; and, in 2010, in the factual entertainment programme ''First Love'', where she returned to the violin playing of her youth. In 2015, Derham partnered with BAFTA-nominated producer Jane Gerber to found Peanut & Crumb, a Brighton-based multiplatform studio that produces branded content, podcasts and broadcast programmes.


Personal life

Derham plays the
violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
. She married
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John Vincent in 1999; he had proposed on the night they met. They have two daughters and live in
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, near
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, Sussex.


References


External links

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''In Tune''
(BBC Radio 3)
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at Radio 3 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Derham, Katie 1970 births Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge BBC Radio 3 presenters English journalists English radio presenters English television presenters ITN newsreaders and journalists Living people People educated at Cheadle Hulme School People from Canterbury