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FRANCES EDMONDS
Frances Edmonds is much in demand on the professional speakers circuit as a motivational and humorous speaker and also as an MC and moderator. In a Times survey, she was voted Britain's top female after-dinner speaker.
Frances Edmonds was educated at the Ursuline Convent, Chester (an experience from which neither party ever truly recovered) and New Hall, Cambridge, from which she graduated with a first class Honours degree in Modern Languages and humorous tendencies in French, Italian and Spanish as well as English.
She then trained as an international conference interpreter at the Commission of the European Communities (now European Union) Brussels and travelled extensively for all the major international organisations (EU, UN, OECD, WEU etc). She also worked for the Heads of State and government of the G7 (the world's most industrialised countries) at their Annual World Economic summits.
In l976, she married her current husband, sometime Middlesex and England cricketer, Phil Edmonds, and accompanied him on tour to the West Indies in l986. It was there that she wrote her first and highly controversial best seller Another Bloody Tour, which launched her into her present career as writer, broadcaster and professional speaker.
In l987, she followed the England cricket team to Australia and produced Cricket XXXX Cricket, a No. l best seller both in UK and Australia. In Australia, she co-hosted Good Morning Australia, Australia's most popular breakfast TV show, and covered the cricket and the America's Cup for the The Times.
In l989 she wrote Members Only, - an irreverent search for signs of independent, intelligent life in the Houses of Parliament. She found few. Her subsequent novels Samson Delilah, Star of Heaven and Games were all greeted with critical acclaim. Her
book, Winning the Game of Life, published in June 2001, is a book on personal success, self help and motivation and embraces techniques employed by Britain's foremost captains of industry and sportsmen/women.
In addition to her writing, Frances Edmonds has wide experience on radio and television, hosting programmes as diverse as Radio 5 Live's 505, Women on Top, A Game of Two Halves and Channel 4's The Greatest. She is a regular new reviewer for BBC Breakfast News and Breakfast with Frost and appears frequently on radio and TV as a guest and panellist.
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