London with my husband and my three children, aged 10, 15 and 17, and the value of being able to get a bit of horizon or physical activity has really gone up in my estimation.It’s probably something to do with that!
I live not far from Paddington station so it was an area I was familiar with. Wales is in me all the time – it’s shaped me and coloured my thoughts.My Radio 2 show specialises in blues and I have a Radio 6 show on Sundays.
It’s cross-genre and cross-era so I don’t just play music. I play recordings of people’s voices, such as Florence Nightingale, Lord Tennyson and the American aviator Amelia Earhart.
I also interview people. Recently I’ve spoken to the writer Michael Morpurgo and the astronaut Helen Sharman.I’m inquisitive by.
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