Bel Mooney (born October 8 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster born in Liverpool. Mooney lived and attended school in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, then obtained a first class degree in English Language and Literature from University College London. She met her first husband, Jonathan Dimbleby, there and they married in 1968. In the early seventies, Mooney wrote for the New Statesman and was for many years a regular columnist for The Times, The Sunday Times and The Listener.

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  • Bel Mooney (born October 8 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster born in Liverpool. Mooney lived and attended school in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, then obtained a first class degree in English Language and Literature from University College London. She met her first husband, Jonathan Dimbleby, there and they married in 1968. In the early seventies, Mooney wrote for the New Statesman and was for many years a regular columnist for The Times, The Sunday Times and The Listener. (Her reference to Margaret Thatcher in Nova magazine in 1973 as a 'possible future Prime Minister' is believed to have been the first suggestion of its kind in the media. ) Having made her name as a journalist, columnist, and broadcaster, she turned her hand to writing fiction for adults and children. She is the author of the best-selling 'Kitty and friends' series of stories for young girls, including I Don’t Want To! and So What, which were inspired by her own daughter, Katherine, or Kitty as she is known. She presented Devout Sceptics, a BBC Radio 4 programme devoted to public figures' private beliefs, not necessarily agnostic or atheistic, as the name might suggest. Mooney has been active in ecological campaigning. In particular she was involved in the campaign against the Batheaston Bypass in the mid 1990s. During the eighties and nineties she wrote six novels and made many programmes for television and for Radio 4. Mooney was married to the television journalist Jonathan Dimbleby for thirty-five years, until the couple separated in 2004 after his affair with opera singer Susan Chilcott; they are now divorced. They have two adult children, Kitty, a freelance journalist and Daniel, a television producer/director. On September 8, 2007, Mooney married Robin Allison-Smith, a freelance photographer, with whom she lives on the outskirts of Bath. In June 2007 she began writing a weekly column for the Saturday edition of the Daily Mail, advising readers on emotional and relationship issues, and she contributes other comment articles to the paper.
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  • Bel Mooney (born October 8 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster born in Liverpool. Mooney lived and attended school in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, then obtained a first class degree in English Language and Literature from University College London. She met her first husband, Jonathan Dimbleby, there and they married in 1968. In the early seventies, Mooney wrote for the New Statesman and was for many years a regular columnist for The Times, The Sunday Times and The Listener.
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