Blog posts by year and monthApril 2011
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Songs Of Praise: Our royal wedding special on Anglesey
As one of my daughters was married last year, I know what it's like to walk down the aisle, witness the vows and keep smiling for the cameras all day long. Wedding days are always memorable. Royal weddings become moments in history. We will always remember where we were on Friday, 29 April 20...
Inside The Human Body
When I was a young medical student, it was felt that the best way to get a really good understanding of the workings of the human body was by dissecting a corpse. Altruistic individuals would leave their bodies for students, like me, to tremblingly dissect. These days you can get a more i...
United: Busby Babes and the Munich air crash
"We've found the penalty spot," is the cry I hear from one of the art department as he manfully digs at the vast white blanket of snow, under which is a football pitch - apparently. This poses a slight problem as we're attempting to film a scene for United with the Busby Babes in pre-season t...
Anne Robinson says goodbye to the Weakest Link
After 11 years fronting the Weakest Link, Anne Robinson has today announced that she has decided to relinquish her title as the Queen Of Mean and step down as its presenter. You can read more about her decision to leave the show in an interview in today's Guardian. The Weakest Lin...
If Walls Could Talk: what did we do without bathrooms?
When the BBC suggested that I temporarily leave my usual rather grand surroundings at Britain's Historic Royal Palaces, where I work as a curator, in order to present If Walls Could Talk: The History Of The Home, I was thrilled. This BBC Four series explores the history of British homes at ...
EastEnders: I worked on the car crash scripts
I was lucky enough to spend three months working on EastEnders as part of the BBC Production Trainee Scheme. I was working as their assistant script editor, and was also shadowing an experienced script editor to follow a week's worth of scripts from commissioning through to filming. Thes...
Watchdog's Big Money Test
Last year, the BBC Lab UK team left MoneySaving Towers (my offices) with their hands bitten off. They'd come to me saying they wanted to conduct another of their mammoth experiments, this time working with Watchdog on finance, did I want to get involved? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes - was my u...
Is Breast Best? Cherry Healey Investigates
Filming my most recent programme for BBC Three has been full of surprises. I hadn't realised quite how contentious the subject of breastfeeding is. After I had my daughter I tried to breastfeed and ended up with mastitis - a breast infection - and was admitted into hospital. I was quit...
A Home For Maisie: Why we adopted our ninth child
My husband Jim and I have always enjoyed a challenge. Having adopted eight children over 18 years, all placed with us as older children and each with differing needs, we were already reasonably challenged. But then we saw Maisie's profile in Children Who Wait magazine published by Adopti...
Filthy Cities: My summer in the sewers
When the BBC got in touch with me and suggested a series about the history of filth I was suitably nervous. In Filthy Cities, they wanted a series which explored the idea that we humans create a huge amount of waste that, if left untreated, can destroy us. By looking at how human societi...
