Broadcast journalist and producer, based in the South West of the UK
I'm a broadcast journalist and producer. For 15 years I was on the staff of BBC World Service, producing Newshour and making arts features and obituaries for Newshour, Weekend and Radio 4's The World Tonight, often producing live programmes from home. I live in the South West of the UK, speak French and Russian, and love telling stories about art, music and the wider world. I'm now open to remote producing, editorial and communications work.
Live news and current affairs
Fifteen years producing Newshour, the World Service's flagship programme: the war in Ukraine, the Middle East and Yemen, and interviews with people in and around the Kremlin and President Zelensky's circle, often while events were still unfolding.
Arts features and obituaries
Pieces on artists, writers and musicians for Newshour, Weekend and Radio 4's The World Tonight, built around the right voices and the right music.
Languages
English and French, working Russian, some German and Arabic. I grew up in the Middle East and North Africa and lived in Moscow and St Petersburg.
Before the World Service
BBC Inside Out in the South West, BBC Guernsey, Woman's Hour and You and Yours on Radio 4, local radio across Devon, and London film correspondent for Russian national television.