Carole Stone , CBE (born 30 May 1942) is a British author and freelance radio and television broadcaster. Stone spent 27 years at the BBC beginning as a newsroom secretary and eventually becoming the producer of Radio 4 's flagship discussion programme Any Questions? In 2018, Stone established The Carole Stone Foundation to support her belief that connecting people, exchanging ideas and building friendships around the world is essential to help make a fairer society.
Stone spent 27 years at the BBC starting as a newsroom secretary and went on to become producer of Radio 4 's flagship discussion programme Any Questions?
In April 2007, Stone became Managing Director of YouGovStone Ltd, a joint venture with online opinion polling organisation YouGov plc. [1] She established the YouGovStone Think Tank a global panel of 4,000 industry leaders and “influentials” used for opinion research and drawn from her database of more than 50,000 people. [2]