I'm Hannah, a journalist working for BBC South East covering Kent, Surrey and Sussex on regional news programmes that air every day. I joined the BBC when I was 18 to make a difference. That is at the front of my mind every time I cut a package, do a live and pitch a story. If it'll make the world better, even if that's just a few people's lives for a few minutes, I'll do it and love it.

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My passions in life are wildlife and the natural world. In my spare time I am writing a walking book for the well renowned Cicerone Press and I'm a qualified Lowland Leader with the Mountain Training Association. There's just something so magical about experiencing an animal or a beautiful place, especially with someone who cares so much about it and helping those conservationists, experts and enthusiasts to get their excitement across to the public. I live for getting across people's passions across to the audience and having worked in tv, radio, online and social media for the BBC I like to make versions for all of these platforms to get as wide a reach for the story and the natural world as possible.

I also love entertainment programmes. I've compered a fair few times and do stand up comedy and dancing in my spare time but I've never had an opportunity to practice this on television, not yet anyway.

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Career highlights so far include​:​

• Having my video about basking sharks in Cornwall reach the number one most watched in the world on the BBC from a single zoom interview and the interviewee's own footage.

• Being trusted on major stories including health care failures, family tragedies, a mass shooting, local and general elections and international summits.

• Presenting radio programmes live on air and h

  aving my own hour long cookery programme on radio Orkney which was a popular piece of our output.

• Experiencing the world with my job. Everything from taking tiny four seater planes to get to remote islands, crafting tv packages from only user generated content when the office was off sick with covid, just working in some the weird and wonderful conditions and places, under pressure, to make sure the story is told is brilliant. Anything that means being resourceful, I love.

• Receiving a distinction, the highest grade possible, for my apprenticeship and achieving the gold standard NCTJ for each of my exams, putting me in the top 20% of passes in the country.

I'm passionate about wildlife and the natural world. I love health and fitness and I live for my work. Making a genuine, positive difference in this world through the stories I tell is the reason I get up every morning excited for the day of work ahead to tell people's stories.