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Sallyann Murphey began her career at the age of 23, as the then-youngest producer in the British Broadcasting Corporation,
working for BBC World Service in London. A year later, she moved over to BBC Radio 4 as a producer on their flagship news
and current events program, The World At One. In 1982, she joined BBC1 Television as a news and current affairs producer,
working on the daily evening news program, Nationwide, and then on the team who developed Britain's first-ever morning show,
BBC Breakfastime.
In 1984, Ms. Murphey was invited by Independent Television to establish their American news operation
for 'Good Morning Britain', the then-sister program to 'Good Morning America'. She came to New York, where she met her future
husband, Greg, a year later. The couple moved to Chicago, his hometown, at the end of Ms.Murphey's contract, where their daughter
was born in 1987. Murphey continued to work as an investigative journalist for a number of publications including IPC Magazines,
the Daily Mail, The Chicago Times Magazine and The Utne Reader until 1991, when the family moved to a farm in Brown County,
Indiana. This change of circumstance gave rise to Ms.Murphey's first book, 'Bean Blossom Dreams - A City Family's Search for
a Simple Country Life'. Four books have followed since, including 'The Zen of Food - A Philosophy of Nourishment', 'Emma's
Christmas Wish' and her historical novel 'The Metcalfe Family Album - Six Generations of Traditions and Memories'.
In
September 2001, she began teaching history, government and media studies at Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana, where
she is also the High School Coordinator.
She continues to write and is currently working on a new book for her own
generation of Baby Boomers.
Ms Murphey has appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio.
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