In 1988 she joined A Week in Politics on Channel 4 as a reporter. The BBC presenter’s face swelled up when she accidentally left the zip of her bee veil open. I want to do a World at One programme from Belfast soon because I think at the moment its a very worrying situation because of this dissident Republican environment.So was she looking forward to getting back on the road after sitting behind a studio-based microphone for so long? In 2004 Kearney was a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction). There are a lot of lovely walks near us. About 4 hours ago from NorfolkSuffolkCrisis's Twitter via Twitter Web App So what was their pillow talk like? Martha Catherine Kearney (born 8 October 1957) is a British-Irish journalist and broadcaster. Back then I did some political betting, which I dont do now and I made quite a lot of money betting that he would be Conservative leader!So what about Bill Clinton? He always used to throw me googlies which cracked me up hes great fun and I like him a lot, I do still see him from time to time.Travelling is something Martha and Chris enjoy and in their 30s they both resigned from their jobs and took a late gap year. PUBLISHED: 10:00 11 November 2010 | UPDATED: 18:08 20 February 2013, In the more familiar surroundings of the studio. She was, with Jenni Murray, 2004 TRIC radio presenter of the year, and won a Sony bronze award for a programme on child poverty. I spent a lot of time there building up contacts. Its lucky for Martha that Chris likes East Anglia as much as her. [1], Other BBC work includes Who Killed The Honey Bee (2009) for BBC Four,[10] The Wonder of Bees (2014) for BBC Four,[11] a two part nature documentary Hive Alive (2014) alongside Chris Packham for BBC Two,[12] The Secret World of Lewis Carroll (2015) for BBC Two,[13] Being The Brontes (2016) for BBC Two,[14] The Great Butterfly Adventure (2016) for BBC Four,[15] The Books That Made Britain (2016) for BBC One,[16]Great Irish Journeys (2017) for BBC Four,[17] and MAKE!
It was, she said, the worst moment of a hobby which began with an off-beat wedding gift of a hive and other bee-keeping equipment, but has since become an obsession, to the extent that she and her husband, Chris Shaw, a television executive, have 360,000 bees at their Suffolk home. When we got married nine years ago some friends clubbed together and bought us a beehive, and I thought how on earth was I going to manage bees on top of everything else with my job, being so busy. Watch her on a BBC4 TV series called The Joy of Honey in 2014. I love going round the galleries and talking to the artists, it's a real privilege, you meet the authors, read the books I feel incredibly lucky.So for the time being Suffolk is not going to claim her full time but its apparent where her heart is, with the big East Anglian skies.
BBC Radio Suffolk Presenter. The hive came in a kit so we put it together and I painted it its one of those lovely old fashioned ones.Luckily for Martha, she met a local beekeeper called Jan Driver who became her mentor. I interviewed him in No 10 when he was living in the flat (next to the Blairs) where most people were not allowed to film. We were both burnt out, Martha recalls, and we just wanted to go away. In her final year at Oxford, she worked as a volunteer in hospital radio. We also do a lot of reading and I like to be near my fire.Shes a keen gardener so spends time weeding the vegetable patch. She believes its incredibly important for more enthusiasts to emerge because bees are dying out.Martha and Chris see a lot of her parents and are always meeting up for coffee, enjoying going to places such as The Leaping Hare Restaurant at Wyken Hall. He was happy for me to meet him but wouldnt let the cameras anywhere near him. I always had the suspicion if it was pouring with rain that Jeremy (Paxman) would keep me on air far longer, just to torture me! She became the main presenter of Radio 4's lunchtime news programme The World at One on 16 April 2007. Spending so much time with him I learnt an awful lot more about him than I ever realised. BBC Radio 4 and Newsnight Broadcaster Martha Kearney lives in Suffolk where she enjoys producing honey from her six beehives. Kearney's husband was an executive producer of the Academy Awards nominated short documentary Watani: My Homeland. Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, "Sarah Montague leaves BBC Radio 4's Today programme after 18 years", "When Sussex was Martha Kearneys playground", "Passed/Failed: an education in the life of Martha Kearney, broadcaster", "A Week in Politics (TV Series 1982– ) - IMDb", "BBC - (none) - The Idea of a University", "VLV Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting", "BBC Four - The Wonder of Bees with Martha Kearney", "BBC Two - The Secret World of Lewis Carroll", "BBC Four - The Great Butterfly Adventure: Africa to Britain with the Painted Lady", "BBC One - Great Irish Journeys with Martha Kearney, Episode 1", "BBC Four - MAKE! At one point I said to her I met your husband last night and her eyes widened! With each of them it was very different. "Sadly for her Channel 4 cancelled the programme, which resulted in her getting a job as a reporter on a new BBC political programme On the Record.That's where I really began to specialise in Northern Ireland.
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