Despite the Irish surname Adrian Finighan is, in fact, Welsh. Born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1964 he trained as a journalist in industrial South Wales in the early 1980's.

In 1988 after spending a year backpacking his way around the world he joined the BBC as a radio producer and presenter, hosting a regional phone in programme. He graduated to national radio newsreading in 1991 and moved to television and the BBC's Business Unit in 1994 to front the World Business Report on BBC World. After a short spell as North America Business Correspondent he became one of BBC World's regular news anchors in 1998 - after doing the job on an occasional basis for the previous three years.

When he's not reading the news on BBC World or it's sister station BBC News 24 (available only in the UK) Adrian puts his voice to good use. He's provides the commentary for corporate documentaries, is the announcer for several BBC TV programmes, including Lily Savage's "Blankety Blank" and Ronan Keating's "Get Your Act Together", and can still occasionally be heard reading national radio news in the UK on BBC Radio 2 (they sometimes let him DJ too!). He is also the "voice of BBC World", the person introducing the news and programmes behind the channel's indents. "It's weird - I often introduce myself"!

Adrian lives in Hertfordshire with his wife - a BBC Children's TV Producer - their two young daughters and a mad cat called Allie (after Alan Shearer).

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