Helen boden bbc biography of earth

  • She is one of the most powerful women in the broadcast media, and has worked as a journalist in the US and the UK since
  • Helen Boaden, former head of BBC News, has been appointed the new BBC Director of Radio.
  • Helen Boden is a poet and educator, who grew up on the edge of the Pennines and lives on the edge of the Pentlands.

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    Profile: Helen Boaden

    She called Radio 4 "my lifeblood" and outlined her intention to broaden the station's listenership.

    "Radio 4 stands for quality, for a state of mind. It's not about class; it's intelligent, open-minded, witty and funny. Listeners will get programmes that feed that state of mind," she said.

    During her tenure, audiences breached a record-breaking 10 million during the Iraq war in , and Boaden was credited with giving the sometimes stuffy station a more universal appeal. It won back to back Sony awards for Station of the Year in and

    Widely viewed as "a safe pair of hands", she also deftly avoided any direct criticism during the Hutton Inquiry.

    She took up her role as director of BBC News in September , responsible for flagship programmes like Today, Newsnight, Question Time and Panorama - as well as the BBC News website and the BBC News channel.

    With an empire that spans television, radio and online, and included World Service News, 12 English regions and 40 local radio stations, her influence was formidable.

    Her remit was broadened in April , when she took on additional responsibility for the Global News division, and joined the BBC's Executive Board.

    As the first female director of BBC News, the y

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    Around the millennium she started to write poetry. She became self-employed and has developed a career as an independent Literature professional, specialising in designing and delivering socially engaged activities in Writing for Wellbeing, Ekphrastic Writing, and Poetry & Place, as well as providing editorial & mentoring services. She works across a broad range of community, healthcare, cultural and environmental settings, for public and third sector clients including National Galleries Scotland, NHS, health and active travel charities, local authorities, universities, refugee and asylum seeker support services. She has authored and edited many articles, chapters and education resources on poetry, health, and active travel, as well as literary criticism on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century poetry and late-twentieth century Scottish poetry.

    Concurrently she has developed her own poetic practice. Widely published in poetry magazines and anthologies, including Gutter, New Writing Scotland, Mslexia, Butcher’s Dog, her first collection, A Landscape To Figure In, was published by Red Squirrel Press in , and was selected for Scottish Book Trust / Creative Scotland Debut lab An examination of place and identity, it considers the interfaces between  physical, psychologica

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