Education
She attended Glebe Primary School, then passed her eleven plus exam, enabling her to attend the newly opened Vyners Grammar School, also in Ickenham on Warren Road.
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Sue Cook
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Cook"s father, William Thomas, worked for the Commission on Industrial Relations (later ACAS). She has two younger brothers and lived on Burnham Avenue in Ickenham. She gained ten O-levels and three A-levels, and went on to University of Leicester, graduating in 1971 to gain an honours degree in psychology.
Cook"s broadcasting career began as a producer, presenter, and DJ for London"s Capital Radio before moving to the British Broadcasting Corporation where, over the next twenty years, she presented programmes for both radio and television—notably, You and Yours, Making History, Nationwide, Breakfast Time, We"re Going Places, Children in Need, Out of Court and Crimewatch.
Foreign Channel 4 she hosted The Chelsea Flower Show, the Hampton Court Flower Show and the popular afternoon series Collector"s Lot. She also appeared briefly as herself in the British Broadcasting Corporation television drama serial Edge of Darkness (1985) and in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986).
The University of Leicester conferred an honorary Doctorate.Litt degree on Cook in 1997 in recognition of her contribution to British broadcasting. Cook has been memorably immortalized in the universe as an object of Alan"s unrequited affections.
Cook is an ambassador of the Prince"s Trust, and a patron of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund, the Children"s Liver Disease Foundation and the British Humanist Association.
Membership
She was a regular guest on Call My Bluff, and a member of Holiday"s team of reporters.
