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In 1996 Ford was accused of bias when hosting a discussion on treatment of men during divorce cases on Today programme. However fierce competition from the BBC's casually styled Breakfast Time resulted in a relaunch which was perceived as "dumbing-down" of the station and only three months after the station's launch Ford was dismissed from the presenting team. She joined the BBC in 1976 and worked on Tomorrow's World in 1977.

Anna Ford (born 2 October 1943) is a former English journalist television presenter. She retired from broadcast news presenting in April 2006 and is now a non-executive director for Sainsbury's a role Anna Ford is expected to stand down from at the end of 2012. She first worked as a researcher news reporter and later newsreader for Granada Television ITN and the BBC.