TV & radio news anchor
Within two years of arriving at BBC World News as a freelance producer, I was presenting live bulletins. Here’s a showcase of my work in front of the camera; and also from behind the microphone, reading the BBC World Service radio news.
Presenting showreel - available on request
Please contact me to see highlights from my time in the presenter’s chair on BBC World News, from 2018 to 2021.
Reading the news for the BBC World Service
No cameras, no lighting, no makeup, no pictures. Just you, your voice, and the listener - there’s nothing like the intimacy of radio.
Carried to millions of listeners on the World Service and partner stations around the world, these bulletins are timed to the second, starting at 1’01” past the hour, and out by 5’58” (or 59” if you’re feeling lucky). And they’re divided into strictly timed sections of 3’ and 2’.
It’s a thrilling mix of performance, and editorial judgement, and it’s why you sometimes hear “B…B…C… Neeeewwwws” at the end!
Interview with Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale
Some interviews you don’t forget. In August 2020, with the Black Lives Matter protests dominating the international headlines, and to coincide with the March on Washington, one of the production team set up this interview.
Bobby Seale shaped the story of civil rights in the USA. He met and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and went on to fame (and infamy) as one of the founders of the Black Panther Party.
He told me about hearing Dr. King speak for the first time (and how he was only able to attend Dr. King’s funeral thanks to help from actor Marlon Brando); about the violence sometimes associated with the Black Panther Party; and about about his pride at seeing the Black Lives Matter movement develop.
