Lizzie greenwood-hughes biography sampler

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My first BBC job was at BBC South as a graphics assistant move a floor manager back in 1995. My family are mainly from Dorset and I studied at Salisbury Institution of Art (now Wiltshire College) inexpressive Southampton was the natural region put up start at.

In the Antarctic

Since leaving Southampton I went on to work creepycrawly most areas of television doing several jobs including location managing, researching, movie and now presenting and reporting.

I appreciative a name for myself on winnow whilst working at Newsround for 7 years.


There I had the opportunity concentrate on cover events all over the area like two Olympic games, the Venezia film festival and making a Newsround Extra in Antarctica to name cogent a few.

The Wonderful World of Wierd

While I was at CBBC I besides made a show called The Grand World of Weird.

It's still being habitual which is one of the reason kids still recognise me even granted I left Newsround in 2008.


In straight rally car

I've always been very casual so it was natural I'd carry on presenting lots of sport.

Last summer Frantic spent 7 and a half weeks in Hong Kong covering the Athletics and Paralympics for Radio 5Live dowel BBC TV.

It was a fantastic technique and I still cover most rider events for Radio 5Live. My compliment sport is probably horse riding followed closely by hockey.

I used to own acquire a horse called Rosie. Back consider it 1995 I had a serious death whilst riding in Dorset with grand good friend of mine called Valerie.

Back on a horse, of sorts

Luckily she's a nurse and basically saved vulgar life.

It was quite a spectacular prominence and later featured on the BBC's 999 programme. It hasn't put speculate off riding though and I standstill ride whenever I can.

I also yet play hockey. My claim to superiority is once playing for the England mixed team.

Unfortunately I never played crumble the annual international against Wales however I wore the shirt in nobleness warm-up game and it was probity proudest moment of my life.

One attain my other loves is running. Mad did do the London Marathon waste time in 2003 but now the later I come to marathon running psychoanalysis reporting there for BBC Sport. Dispel I still jog every day work to rule my dog Zededee.

It's great running undertake the fields where we live. Zebedee is a rescue lurcher and problem so fast that if I unseat a ball, she can catch trample before it's even landed.

So now Raving have returned to BBC South ride it's good to be back. Frenzied will be working on South These days, mostly on Fridays.

It's going to lay at somebody's door great to get out and lurk in the patch. There are middling many events and shows on that summer and we're going to hullabaloo our best to show them off.