Born in Oxford and raised in South Africa, Sue MacGregor is a veteran radio host with a broadcasting career spanning five decades. She is best known as a former presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, which she hosted for fifteen years, and Today, which she hosted for over seventeen years. Her other broadcasting gigs include reporting on BBC’s The World At One and, more recently, hosting The Reunion, where she reunited people who were involved in moments of recent history together. For seven years—equivalently 500 book reviews—MacGregor hosted A Good Read, ultimately setting the record as their longest serving presenter.

In the years since MacGregor began her career, she has been awarded the OBE in 1992 and the CBE in 2002 for her services to radio broadcasting, and a Sony Gold Award in the Speech Programme Category in 2007. Not only a widely acclaimed award-winner, MacGregor has also been given the honour of being inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame. Author of her autobiography, Woman of Today, MacGregor is also a trustee of UNICEF and the John Ellerman Foundation. She is on the Chancellor’s Forum for the London Institute and an honorary graduate of multiple universities, including University of Nottingham and University of Dundee. With a illustrious career behind her, MacGregor has made a name for herself as an iconic voice and a magnetic personality while continuing to build on her stellar reputation.