I’m a highly experienced communicator – calm, authoritative with a reassuring voice. I work as an event host, MC, debate and conference chair / facilitator, media skills trainer, university lecturer, script consultant and voice artist. I’m a BBC trained journalist who spent more than 30 years presenting and producing live radio programmes. I’ve combined broadcasting with teaching, training and mentoring. Words are my business – writing them, speaking them or recording them. During the final years of my mother’s life I recorded the award-winning podcast ‘Mum and Me: The Dementia Diary’. I’m well organised and enjoy admin, having (sadly) been executor for six family members over the last decade. I’m a proud Yorkshireman, who loves photography, reading and running.…

Andrew Edwards

I’m a highly experienced communicator – calm, authoritative with a reassuring voice. I work as an event host, MC, debate and conference chair / facilitator, media skills trainer, university lecturer, script consultant and voice artist. I’m a BBC trained journalist who spent more than 30 years presenting and producing live radio programmes. I’ve combined broadcasting with teaching, training and mentoring. Words are my business – writing them, speaking them or recording them. During the final years of my mother’s life I recorded the award-winning podcast ‘Mum and Me: The Dementia Diary’. I’m well organised and enjoy admin, having (sadly) been executor for six family members over the last decade. I’m a proud Yorkshireman, who loves photography, reading and running.…

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I’m a highly experienced communicator – calm, authoritative with a reassuring voice. I work as an event host, MC, debate and conference chair / facilitator, media skills trainer, university lecturer, script consultant and voice artist.

I’m a BBC trained journalist who spent more than 30 years presenting and producing live radio programmes. I’ve combined broadcasting with teaching, training and mentoring. Words are my business – writing them, speaking them or recording them. During the final years of my mother’s life I recorded the award-winning podcast ‘Mum and Me: The Dementia Diary’.

I’m well organised and enjoy admin, having (sadly) been executor for six family members over the last decade. I’m a proud Yorkshireman, who loves photography, reading and running.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Event host, university teacher, trainer at Self-employed / Various clients
January 1, 2006 - Present
Conference and event hosting: chairing debates, hosting concerts and award ceremonies; university teaching and training; mentoring; voiceover work for universities and DBS.
Senior presenter / producer at BBC Radio Leeds
December 31, 2023 - October 24, 2025
Senior broadcast journalist and presenter for weekend breakfast, teatime news, and other programmes; producer roles and outside broadcasts; elections coverage; awards.
Senior Lecturer in Radio at Leeds Trinity University
January 1, 2006 - October 24, 2025
Senior lecturer; taught undergraduate/postgraduate radio; supervised and assessed news days; MA dissertation supervision; part-time 0.5 load (2005-2006).
Senior Lecturer in Broadcasting at University of Central Lancashire
January 1, 2005 - October 24, 2025
Senior lecturer; broadcasting; 0.4 load (1999-2005).
Acting Senior Producer at BBC Hereford and Worcester
December 31, 1993 - October 24, 2025
Acting senior producer (1990-1993); trainee reporter (1989-1990).
Trainee Reporter at BBC Trainee Reporter Scheme
January 1, 1990 - October 24, 2025
Trainee Reporter at Hull Daily Mail
November 28, 1988 - June 30, 1989
Trainee indentured newspaper reporter, working on daily news coverage and planning

Education

BA (Hons) History of Art, Class I at University of Manchester
September 16, 1985 - July 1, 1988
A Levels (History, German, English) A*, A*, A at Hymers College, Hull
September 1, 1975 - June 28, 1985
Head student; drama; voluntary work

Qualifications

Alzheimer's Society Dementia Hero Award
May 25, 2021 - May 25, 2021
For the weekly podcast 'Mum and Me: The Dementia Diary' about my now late Mum who was living with dementia and about how I coped (or didn't!) with the situation
New York International Radio Award
October 24, 2025 - October 24, 2025

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services, Government, Non-Profit Organization
    paper Mum and Me: The Dementia Diary

    Until 2022 I spent part of each week looking after my late Mum and recorded an award-winning, weekly podcast (‘Mum and Me: The Dementia Diary’) for which I was named a Dementia Hero by the Alzheimer’s Society. I now give talks about, and hosts events linked to, dementia:

    https://www.twine.net/signin