Moira Stuart is a British-Caribbean presenter and broadcaster who was the first female newsreader of Caribbean heritage to appear on British national television, having worked on BBC News since 1981.  Born at the Royal Free Hospital in London and educated there until she was 13, she moved with her family to Bermuda for a time before returning to London at the age of 15, where she attended college.  Moira began working with the BBC in the 1970s as a production assistant in the Radio Talks and Documentaries department. She became a continuity announcer and newsreader for both BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 2, reading her first Radio 4 news bulletin in 1978. In 1980, she played Darong in series one of the game show The Adventure Game. 

Moira moved to television news in 1981, when she co-presented News After Noon. Since 27th August 1981, she has presented on every news bulletin devised on BBC Television apart from the Ten O’Clock News. Moira has also appeared on The News Quiz and presented the news on the BBC’s Breakfast with Frost programme on Sundays and its successor programme Sunday AM with Andrew Marr. She presented the news for BBC Breakfast until the programme moved to a new studio with a new look on 2nd May 2006 and the entire news content was presented by two main presenters. Moira retained her slot on BBC’s Sunday AM show and continued to present some weekend television bulletins on BBC One. She has also worked on other long-form programmes for other BBC channels, including BBC Four, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001 for her broadcasting services.