Clare McDonnell is an award-winning journalist and Broadcaster who can be heard daily across the UK on the news programme BBC Radio 5Live Drive, she is also a regular presenter on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, has reported for BBC 1's The One Show and anchored the BBC's most listened to news programme globally, Newsday (BBC World Service), and its most listened to news podcast, Global News podcast. She has been at the forefront of several major historic news events, announcing the death of Her Majesty the Queen live on national radio, and then broadcasting from Buckingham Palace in the week leading up to the Monarch's funeral, and on the day itself. Clare has covered major political developments too. She...
Clare McDonnell is an award-winning journalist and Broadcaster who can be heard daily across the UK on the news programme BBC Radio 5Live Drive, she is also a regular presenter on BBC Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour, has reported for BBC 1’s The One Show and anchored the BBC’s most listened to news programme globally, Newsday (BBC World Service), and its most listened to news podcast, Global News podcast.
She has been at the forefront of several major historic news events, announcing the death of Her Majesty the Queen live on national radio, and then broadcasting from Buckingham Palace in the week leading up to the Monarch’s funeral, and on the day itself.
Clare has covered major political developments too. She anchored a rolling news outside broadcast from Westminster’s Central Lobby when PM Boris Johnson was facing a vote of no confidence, then presented live from Downing Street when he resigned. She was there too for Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership and her subsequent resignation.
Clare is a sure-footed, experienced pair of hands when it comes to handling complex and fast-moving news events but is also noted for her wit and warmth on-air. She is passionate about sport and is a regular voice on the Wimbledon Championships presenting from Centre Court and around the grounds. She also covered the Women’s Euro Championships and was side stage interviewing the Lionesses during their Trafalgar Square victory celebration.
Clare is also an events and awards host and regularly chairs panel discussions and audience Q&As. Her work spans large-scale events in the Excel Arena to more intimate affairs with special interest groups and/or charities.
Clare has a passion for music and the arts too. She was one of the launch presenters of cutting-edge music station BBC 6Music and a reporter on BBC3 TV’s Nightly Entertainment Show Liquid News, which saw her broadcasting live from, amongst other places, Elvis’s Graceland home and Abbey Road studios in London following the death of George Harrison.
Clare is a broadcaster, event host and panel chair of immense experience who never loses sight of the fact that the most important aspects of her job are holding the powerful to account and allowing those without a voice to be heard.
