Brought up on a diet of Radio 4's The Archers and the Today programme, I came to speech radio as a somewhat reluctant child, and emerged, to my initial horror, as perhaps its most vocal fan.

I love the storytelling power of radio, its scope and ability to reveal hidden worlds, and its powerful potential to communicate ideas to an audience.

Making radio enables me to be creative and satisfies my intense curiosity about people, their lives, and the world in which we live.