Born in Hackney to a British Chinese father and a British Dagenham mother, Anna was the first British Chinese performer to take her own show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Suzy Wrong — Human Cannon in 1994. She was the first Chinese Brit comedian to appear on British TV in Stewart Lee’s Fist Of Fun on BBC2 in 1996. Since then she has written and presented for BBC radio including: A Life In Flux, a profile of Yoko Ono for Radio 3 (1999); a groundbreaking ten-part series about the Chinese In Britain for Radio 4 (2007); and A Celestial Star In Piccadilly, a profile of Anna May Wong broadcast on Radio 4, 2009. She also writes, produces and presents her arts series for Resonance FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge. She has performed stand-up and has been known to read her poetry in public. Taken from http://www.annachen.co.uk/