Career
Between 2001 - 2010 he appeared on many British Broadcasting Corporation and radio current affairs programmes. He reported on Watchdog for three years, where he worked alongside Nicky Campbell, Julia Bradbury, and Paul Heiney(BBC1). He has also reported and produced on a number of other British Broadcasting Corporation programmes including Inside Out (BBC1), The Politics Show(BBC1), Rogue Traders(BBC1), Whistleblower (BBC1), You and Yours (Radio 4), Face The Facts (Radio 4).
Lawrence was born and brought up in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
He went to the Heath Grammar School. At university he studied a Drama and Theatre Studies course.
He was an English teacher in an upper school for four years in Northamptonshire. Lawrence started out at Northamptonshire 96 on the breakfast show in the early 90s, before moving onto presenting the breakfast show at Chiltern FM in Dunstable with Andy Gelder and Sarah Isherwood in 1996, he then hosted British Broadcasting Corporation Three Counties" breakfast show, from October 2001.
He used to write for a few regional papers and the Observer.