- published: 30 Oct 2011
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Martine Dennis is a BBC news anchor. She has been one of the main news presenters of the BBC World News for many years.
Martine Dennis was born on 29 January 1961 in London to Caribbean/Mauritian parents.She studied English and American Studies from 1979-82 at Keele University in England.
Martine started her broadcasting career as a graduate trainee at LBC/IRN in London in 1983.There she did parliamentary reporting and made radio documentaries notably Zimbabwe - Five Years after Independence documentary.Also she covered the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Nassau, the Bahamas in 1985 interviewing Rajiv Gandhi, Mrs Thatcher and Edward Seaga.
Later she joined BBC World Service Radio at the United Nations, New York in 1985, covering the Iran and Iraq war and interviewing many world leaders.
In 1987 she became a presenter-producer for Focus on Africa, the BBC African Service, based at Bush House in London and in 1989 Martine became a presenter, reporter and producer at Sky News, London. She was an overnight news presenter until 1991 when she went to South Africa. In South Africa she freelanced for BBC World Service, covering South Africa's first democratic election.
BBC News with Martine Dennis and Tanya Beckett
BBC News with Martine Dennis and Tanya Beckett
BBC News with Martine dennis and Tanya Beckett
BBC News (0500 GMT) with Martine Dennis and Sally Eden
BBC News special edition with Martine Dennis and Juliet Dunlop
BBC News (5 AM) with Martine Dennis during NUJ strike on July 15 2011.
BBC News (0500 GMT) with Martine dennis and Juliette Foster
Steve Sabella Inside Story with Martine Dennis on Al Jazeera English.
BBC News with Martine Dennis and Aaron Heslehurst
BBC News with Martine Dennis and Aaron Heslehurst
The World Today special on September 11 2001 with Martine Dennis and Bill Turnbull
The World Today Special on September 12 2001 with Martine Dennis and Martine Croxall
BBC World News | 04:00GMT BBC News with Martine Dennis / Naga Munchetty and Sally Bundock (2013).
BBC World News with Martine Dennis