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Details: Claire Rayner
Claire Rayner was born in January 1931 in London. She trained as a nurse, winning the gold medal for outstanding achievement when she became an SRN in 1954. Since the start of her writing career in 1960, she has written over 90 fiction and non-fiction books, published in more than twenty countries.
Probably best known as the UK's leading 'Agony Aunt' Claire has written problem pages for teenage magazines as well as The Sun, The Sunday Mirror, (which attracted 50,000 letters a year) and Today. She is also an award-winning medical journalist and her columns have run in Woman's Own and later Woman magazine as well as many other titles.
Claire presented regular slots on many popular TV programmes including Pebble Mill, Good Morning Britain and TVAM before moving to Good Morning with Anne and Nick on BBC. Her radio work includes her own programmes on Radio 2 and she has been the subject of Desert Island Discs and In the Psychiatrist's Chair as well as This is Your Life on television.
Her public work is far too extensive and varied to detail here but among her many commitments she is the President of The Patient's Association and was for several years a member of The Royal College of Nursing Committee on Ethics. She is a former President of the British Humanist Association and the National Association of Bereavement Counsellors. She is currently an associate non-executive director of the Royal London Hospitals Trust and campaigns on the issue of Elderly Care; she also chairs the Health Advisory Board at Holloway Prison and is patron, advisor and or supporter of many welfare, social and charitable organisations.
In 1996 she was awarded an OBE 'for services to women's issues and health issues'. In 2001 she was given the 'Republican of the Year' award, and the 'Healthwatch Award Of The Year'.
Claire married Desmond Rayner in 1957 and they live in North London. They have three children, three grandsons and a granddaughter. Claire lists amongst her hobbies giving parties, talking and anything theatrical. Read the transcript of this Thought For Today
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