Current affairs

Ian may lack specific journalistic qualifications, but he has done work in several quite different newsrooms - BBC Radio Nottingham and Radio 1 Newsbeat, at BBC WM (for whom he delivered a scoop for a Breakfast Show lead item in November 2006), and in community and student radio - as well as making high-profile interviews including Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist who was captured by the Taliban in 2002. He is also a competent researcher and has experience writing presenters' cues, including for BBC WM presenters. His production work includes current affairs pieces such as a topical 'vox populi' for BBC Radio Five Live, and he also provides stories to stations when he discovers them (such as in November 2006, when his scoop about the HP Sauce factory closure became the day's top story on BBC WM and when Ian gave an eyewitness account of the burning down of a city nightclub).

If you need assistance producing news or current affairs programming, Ian can do the job well and at short notice. He lives within ten minutes walk of the Mailbox, New Street Station and Broad Street in Birmingham, and as well as the West Midlands, Ian has ready accommodation in London, Leeds, Nottingham, Hampshire and Cambridge and a dependable car to travel in where required. He is a registered freelancer with the BBC.

Ian doesn't wish to publish his mobile phone number online, but is able to check his emails several times a day on the move. For the quickest response, contact aeyuiwk@tiscali.co.uk; otherwise, contact iqkennedy@hotmail.com.