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Fran Abrams

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Fran Abrams
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Cheshire, England
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

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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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c d "Meet the team". BBC News. 5 October 2004.
  2. ^ Abrams, Fran (23 September 2009). "In search of the lost generation". Prospect.
  3. ^ "Author Bio". Learning to Fail: How Society Lets Young People Down. Routledge. 22 September 2009. ISBN 978-0203864821. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  4. ^ Fran Abrams | LinkedIn Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  5. ^ Sinfully delicious chocolates Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Bambra, Clare (November 2003). "The poverty of journalism?". Critical Social Policy. 23 (4): 547–550. doi:10.1177/02610183030234006. ISSN 0261-0183. S2CID 144012010.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Devitt, Stewart (26 September 2002). "Below the Breadline (Book)". People Management. 8 (19): 58. ISSN 1358-6297.
  10. ^ Barker, Paul (30 August 2002). "The lower reaches of the Savoy". Times Literary Supplement (5187): 22. ISSN 0307-661X. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Freedom's Cause: Lives of the Suffragettes (Book)". Contemporary Review. 284 (1659): 256. April 2004. ISSN 0010-7565.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Apter, Terri (15 September 2006). "SEVEN KINGS". Times Literary Supplement (5398): 31. ISSN 0307-661X.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Stevenson, Talitha (2 November 2012). "Seen and not heard". New Statesman. 141 (5130): 49–50. ISSN 1364-7431.
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