Background
She grew up in Quorn, Leicestershire, the ancestral home of British fox hunting, and went to the direct-grant grammar school Loughborough High School.
She grew up in Quorn, Leicestershire, the ancestral home of British fox hunting, and went to the direct-grant grammar school Loughborough High School.
She studied English and Drama at the University of Kent from 1983-1986.
She volunteered on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Leicester. British Broadcasting Corporation
She was put on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Local Radio Reporters Scheme, then toured the local radio stations of Sussex, Cumbria and Devon. She then returned to Radio Leicester as a news reporter.
At Radio Leicester she worked with Julian Worricker.
She worked on British Broadcasting Corporation national radio, on The World Tonight. More locally to Leicestershire, she became a reporter and sports presenter on East Midlands Today.
Returning to national radio on British Broadcasting Corporation 5 Live, she was a producer, reporter and presenter. Prior to Farming Today she worked as a reporter for You and Yours, the lunch-time consumer programme on Radio 4.
She has also since been a television reporter on BBC1"s Countryfile, until 2009, and returned as an occasional relief reporter from 2014.
Farm tourism in Leicestershire.