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Curriculum Vitae
Freelance : |
November 2006 - Present
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Masters Course
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October 2005 - October 2006
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Masters in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University
BBC journalist : |
October 1979 - March 2005 |
Broadcast Journalist,
Nottingham
Delivered a
consistent performance over 26 years in a competitive and fast moving
environment. Adhering to tight deadlines and managing a challenging schedule :
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Wrote
scripts
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Interviewed people
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Edited material for news
bulletins and programmes
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Read the
news
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Wrote and
produced the Breakfast and Drivetime news and current
affairs programmes
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Reported
‘live’ from the Radio Car at major events, i.e. the shooting of the jeweller
Marian Bates, the Miners Strike, and Kegworth
Aircrash.
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Produced, wrote scripts and co-ordinated outside
broadcasts in Nottingham i.e. the England v. Australia test match at the Trent
Bridge Cricket ground in 1997 and the last day of production at Awsworth
Colliery in 2000.
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Specific BBC
Assignments:
Bi-Media Planner,
Nottingham : |
June
1994 - June 1996 |
Researched and set up stories
for radio and television reporters and organised the filming schedules for
camera crews in the East Midlands.
Bi-Media Editor, Nottingham
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October 1990
- December 1990 |
Commissioned correspondents to
produce features for BBC Radio Nottingham and East Midlands Today.
Regional
Television Journalist,
Birmingham
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October 1989 - June 1990
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News reporter and planning
journalist for Midlands Today .
Mansfield District
Reporter : |
January 1987
- October 1989
& January 1991 -
January 1994 |
Ran the district office for BBC
Radio Nottingham. Originated and reported on stories and liased with BBC
national networks.
BBC Radio Freelance
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May 1979 -
January 1987 |
Reported on news and programmes
for radio stations across the country. Reported on three of the Ripper murders
in Leeds. (was based in Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool, Derby, York, Leeds,
Northampton and Birmingham).
Undergraduate , Sussex University :
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October 1980
- June 1983 |
B.A. (Hons) in Social Psychology
Radio Trent,
Nottingham : |
October 1978
- May
1979 |
Reporter for commercial radio in the East Midlands.
Wrote scripts, recorded interviews and edited
stories. Reported on several national stories
including the deaths of two teenage sweethearts at Matlock.
Leicester Mercury,
Leicester : |
July 1972
- October 1978 |
Trained there and worked as a court reporter and
feature writer in Leicester and as a district reporter in the Loughborough
office.
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