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I've been working at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ for seven years, and have just arrived at World Have Your Say.

After studying history at Cambridge, I started my life in journalism in the usual grimey way with a series of reporting jobs in local and trade magazines ... mortgages reporter at a Financial Times business trade magazine, that kind of thing. For a whole year I wrote about nothing but mortgages.

Eventually I snuck in to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ where I started working for Radio Four's Today programme and Radio Five Live Breakfast, producing the economics and business news.

I then moved to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Five Live's Victoria Derbyshire programme, a daily newsÌýshow which has just been nominated for 3 Sony awards. I spent lots of time producing big politics OBs ("outside broadcasts") all over the country where politicians were grilled by an audience of 200 people live on the radio.

It was all about hearing the views of "real people" and it's the same idea at World Have Your Say. On many programmes professors and pundits dominate the airwaves but I like finding new voices for the radio. I'm always searching around for new Chinese bloggers, housewives in Mumbai with opinions about everything, people tweeting from the streets of Yemen and chatty teenagers telling us on the phone what they're seeing and hearing from their windows as they lie low in their homes in Tripoli.

Outside work, I play classical cello and play regularly in string quartets. I sing and adapt music for various world music acappella groups. I've been deeply involved in a number of creative, artistic and community projects in London, but that's a WHOLE other story. Favourite writers: Chinua Achebe and Doris Lessing. Favourite magazine: The New Yorker. Currently reading: Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi, a biography of an Iranian human rights lawyer. Favourite country: Ghana, because they put sound systems on the pavements and dance on the streets!