9 December 2015
Two pensioners who went online to find love but lost their life savings tell me how they became victims of romance fraud …
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – School Refusal
13 November 2015
Children who find school too emotionally distressing to cope with are often wrongly labelled as truants. Here two families shed light on ‘School Refusal’…
BBC Radio 4 PM programme – Ugly Yellow Handbag
14 July 2015
It’s a hideous accessory described as having no redeeming features. So how did this ugly yellow handbag, first auctioned online for £3 ended up being sold for £1090?
BBC Radio 4 – Election 2015
8 May 2015
Reporting live in the wee hours from The Wirral for the BBC Radio election programme. At least I think it was me. Jim Naughtie thought I was someone else…
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – Adoption in the Facebook era
5 March 2015
Until the arrival of social media, contact with birth relatives has always been a tightly managed process. Here one mother and her adopted daughter explain how Facebook caused the breakdown of their adoptive relationship…
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – The elusive Margaret Rope
27 November 2014
At just 28 years old, stained glass artist Margaret Rope was commissioned to produce several large windows for Shrewsbury Cathedral. She went on to create stained glass works displayed in churches across the UK and around the world. So why are her achievements largely ignored?
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – Legal aid and domestic violence
26 November 2013
Recent changes to the legal aid system mean that some victims of domestic violence no longer qualify for help. One mother had little choice but to represent herself in court tells her story…