Helen boden bbc biography documentary
Helen Boaden, former head of BBC News, has been appointed the new BBC Director of Radio.
Helen Boaden (born 1 March ) is a British former broadcasting executive who spent more than 30 years working for the BBC, including as Director of Radio....
Helen Boaden
British former broadcasting executive
Helen Boaden (born 1 March 1956) is a British former broadcasting executive who spent more than 30 years working for the BBC, including as Director of Radio between February 2013 and September 2016.[1][2]
Boaden is a Fellow of The Radio Academy,[3] and in May 2019 she joined the board of the UK Statistics Authority for a period of three years.[4]
Early life
Boaden was born on 1 March 1956 in Colchester in Essex.
Her father was an FE lecturer in geography and then worked for a teaching union. She says that she came "from one of those families where there was quite a lot of shouting and plates whizzing through the air".[5]
Boaden says that she found school "a great relief from home life because it was calm and ordered".[5] She was educated at Rushmere junior school and Northgate Grammar School (now Northgate High School) in the large county town of Ipswich in Suff