Early life

Morris was educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School

Lady Eleanor Holles School

The Lady Eleanor Holles School is an independent school for girls in Hampton, London, England. The school was founded in 1711.-Admissions:...

, an independent school

Independent school

An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...

 for girls in Hampton

Hampton, London

Hampton is a suburban area, centred on an old village on the north bank of the River Thames, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in England. Formerly it was in the county of Middlesex, which was formerly also its postal county. The population is about 9,500...

 in West London

London

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, where she recalled the difficulties of being left-handed. At the age of eleven, she moved to a convent when her family settled in Devon. She graduated from Hull University in 1986 having studied English and Drama.

Broadcasting career

After a spell on BBC South West

BBC South West

BBC South West is the BBC English Region serving Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands.-Television:BBC South Wests television service consists of the flagship regional news service Spotlight, the opt-out service BBC Channel Islands, the topical magazine programme Inside Out and a 20-minute...

's Spotlight, Morris went on to join the BBC

BBC

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 children's news show, Newsround

Newsround

Newsround is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children...

in 1990. She left the show in 1995 to present BBC Breakfast News for three years. She has since presented the Heaven and Earth Show, and co-presented the programme 999, alongside Michael Buerk

Michael Buerk

Michael Duncan Buerk is a BBC journalist and newsreader, most famous for his reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984, which inspired the Band Aid charity record.-Early life:...

.She was also the presenter of BBC's 'The House Detectives' (1997–2000) where she and a team of experts,lead by Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank is an art historian and BBC television presenter.-Early life:As a young child he lived for some years in Poland...

,investigated the history of the houses of members of the public. In 1998 she made a report for Panorama on suicide amongst young men, during which she revealed that her younger brother, Edward, committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 24.

She is currently presenting the BBC show, Uncharted Territory and she was formerly a reporter on Countryfile

Countryfile

Countryfile is a British magazine-style television programme produced by BBC Birmingham, first aired on 24th July 1988, which reports on rural and environmental issues within the United Kingdom. For its first 20 years it was fronted by broadcaster John Craven, until he stepped back from the role of...

.

Trivia

Juliet Morris features as a cameo character in Postcards from God

Postcards From God

Postcards from God - The Sister Wendy Musical is a British musical with songs, lyrics and book by Marcus Reeves, based on the life and works of Sister Wendy Beckett, the noted art critic and nun of the order of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur....

 - The Sister Wendy Musical, interviewing Sister Wendy on the subject of fame.

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