Bel Mooney
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Bel Mooney (born December 17, 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster born in Liverpool.
In the early seventies, Mooney wrote for the New Statesman and was for many years she was a regular columnist for The Times, The Sunday Times and The Listener.
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.
More recently, she has 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. Inparticular she was involved in the campaign against the Newbury bypass in the mid 1990s.
Mooney was married to the television journalist Jonathan Dimbleby for thirty-five years, until the couple separated in 2004. They have two adult children, Kitty, a journalist for the Femail section of the Daily Mail, and Daniel, a producer on Jamie Oliver's television show.
