Francine Stock
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Francine Stock (born March 14, 1958) is a British radio and TV presenter and novelist, of part-French origin. Stock attended St Catherine's School, Guildford where she was head girl and is a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian).
After working in specialist journalism on the oil industry, she joined the BBC in 1983. At first she reported on financial news and worked as a radio producer, later moving into television as presenter of Newsnight and (briefly, after serious illness) on The Money Programme on BBC2. She was one of the original presenters of BBC Radio 4's Front Row in 1998, later moving to The Film Programme on radio, which she still presents.
Francine Stock has published two novels: A Foreign Country (1999) and Man-Made Fibre (2002).
[edit] Trivia
Despite her education, she referred to the word 'and' as a preposition in a Film Programme interview on 2 February 2007. [1].
