BBC RADIO 5LIVE – PRESENTER - Jan 2003 - Oct 2011

Main news presenter weekdays 0930 – 1530 during Breakfast YourCall, Victoria Derbyshire, Shelagh Fogarty, Richard Bacon and the Mayo and Kermode Film Review. Writing and reading the bulletins and leading the summaries team.

Fill-in presenter for Breakfast, Drive and Weekend Breakfast.

Previously presented Morning Reports and The Midday News programme.

Reporter during General Elections and some entertainment reporting.

DIRECTOR OF GREENE LIGHT MEDIA LTD

Company specialising in media training for business and voice over work

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

BBC LONDON (TV) – PRESENTER/REPORTER/PRODUCER

Presenting Breakfast, Lunch and Evening News Bulletins

Live reporting including court reporting

Package making – editing on Newsflash

Producing correspondents, commissioning graphics, fixing guests, cutting packages and writing scripts and writing and editing headlines

Output editing the programmes including studio producing, commissioning reporters

BBC LONDON 94.9 (RADIO) – REPORTER AND NEWSREADER/WRITER

Live reporting – including court reporting - and package making, editing on location and operating the radiocar

Reading and writing news bulletins

BBC WALES – PRESENTER

Programmes: Good Evening Wales; Good Morning Wales/Saturday Breakfast programme; News Bulletins. Radio and TV Reporter/Producer

RADIO - Freelance Reporter/Newsreader

Choice FM – Birmingham
Radio XL

Swansea Sound/The Wave -(including Presenter of Radio Drive News programme)

BBC Radio Leicester

Mercia FM

TELEVISION

Birmingham Live TV – Reporter

Nickleodeon UK – Researcher/Presenter

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

09/96 – 06/97 Highbury College, Portsmouth

Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism (NCTBJ)

EDUCATION

1993 – 1996 Loughborough University

BA Hons Drama Classification 2:1

1986 – 1993 Finham Park School

1993 A-Levels: Psychology (B), Biology (C), Religious Studies (C)

1991 GCSEs (6 A Grades, 3 B Grades)

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Clean driving licence/Radio car trained

Computer literate and competent with windows based software - including ENPS, Word and QuarkXPress.

Digital Editing: NEWSFLASH (Picture editing), VCS, RADIOMAN, QUICKEDIT pro, BRIAN and FAST EDDIE.

Shorthand Speed 90 WPM

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

My background is theatre - I’ve grown up with performing both in amateur and professional productions. By my late teens I’d performed at the National Theatre (London) and the New Experimental Theatre (previously the Gorky Theatre, Russia). I’m currently a member of the Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre in Crayford, South-east London and perform in several productions a year. I’m also a trained dancer, have passed all amateur awards for Ballet, Tap, Stage and Modern/Jazz as well as teaching younger pupils at the dance school I attended. I’m also a regular at the gym and do a lot of yoga as well as kickboxing.

REFEREES

On request