Background
Machin was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and is a graduate of Newcastle High School and Oxford University.
Machin was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and is a graduate of Newcastle High School and Oxford University.
Machin began her media work in Staffordshire and Cheshire as the hostess of the breakfast show on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Stoke. She joined the radio station in 1999 as a telephone answerer and then in 2002 she became co-presenter of the breakfast show along with Kevin Fernihough. After Fernihough"s departure in 2004 to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Northampton, Machin hosted the show as its sole presenter.
In 2007 Machin joined British Broadcasting Corporation Look East based in Cambridge as a presenter anred reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Look East"s "Close Up" service.