Anna Raeburn

Anna Raeburn (born 3 April 1944) is a British broadcaster, author and journalist who is best known for her role as a radio agony aunt, giving advice on relationships and more general life problems.

[2][3] Raeburn built her reputation in the 1970s and 1980s on a popular late night problem phone-in show on Capital Radio, called Anna And The Doc.

The journalist Vincent Graff said of the show: “If you were a baffled teenager trying to find your way in the world, Anna and the Doc gave you the roadmap.”[4] Her celebrity status was such that in 1978 she was invited onto BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs choosing as her favourite track, "Amazing Grace" by Aretha Franklin.

[6] The show primarily featured listeners ringing in with everyday problems to which Raeburn, often with the assistance of a professional guest, applied her life philosophy in an effort to guide them to a solution.

Her show was usually in two parts; the first would be guest interviews on psychosocial issues and/or associated book reviewing, followed by a phone-in to advise and guide listeners as a "professional friend".

Other TV appearances included spots as an agony aunt in the early days of GMTV from 1993, a guest on late-night discussion programme After Dark, and as a panellist on comedy game show Blankety Blank.