When I was in my final year at the University of Manchester, I did a two-day course called, ‘An insight into broadcasting and journalism’, while I was there I got offered two-weeks work experience at the BBC and an invitation to apply for a Broadcast Journalism PGDip in Preston. On graduating, I moved to Northern Ireland to report the news for Derry’s C9TV. Then back in Manchester, for BBC North West Tonight, I took the politically aware hip hop act Public Enemy, to where teenager Jessie James was shot, to meet local Moss Side boys. Then for ITV Granada, I interviewed Yoho Ono and flew around the world in 23 days, stopping off in ten countries to meet North West expats.

Moving to network TV, I filmed in police cars going 165mph, went undercover as a debt collector for Dispatches and slept on the sofa of a victim of antisocial behaviour for News at Ten.

Graduating to Producer-Director, I filmed undercover at bogus colleges in Pakistan (culminating in shouting questions at a college boss as I chased him through Walthamstow), moved into a hotel housing the homeless for six weeks, captured the Far Right doing Nazi salutes while drinking mead from horns (whilst pretending to be a charity educating children about English history) and spent five months travelling with an antique funfair.

Finally, I stepped up to be an Exec Producer, creating a BBC One series about a charity attempting to use food waste to solve food poverty, uncovering the scale of police sexual misconduct for ITV Exposure, then, for BBC Panorama, breaking the news that the DWP were the UK’s worst employer for disability discrimination.

Then, during COVID, I joined the NHS.