Friday Diary: Bad Journalism, Angry Train Drivers and Noisy Hand Dryers
Shelagh Fogarty divulges some of the bad experiences she has had with journalists.
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Shelagh Fogarty
Shelagh Fogarty presents the lunchtime show on Radio 5 Live.
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Friday Diary: The Wonder of the Virgin Trains' Announcement
Shelagh Fogarty pays homage to the Virgin Trains' announcements and watches Peter Capaldi in a new production of Ladykillers.
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Shelagh Fogarty on forgiveness, direct action and why she didn't want to join the cult of Apple.
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Friday Diary: Some Painful Hillsborough Memories
- Oct 28, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty on a new life in Salford and Andy Burnham's response to Hillsborough.
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Friday Diary: The Smile In Her Voice
- Oct 21, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty on why foreign languages are important, growing her hair and the joy in a Libyan girl's voice.
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Friday Diary: I Was Thrown Out Of The National Gallery!
- Oct 14, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty tells us how she was caught misbehaving in the National Gallery.
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Saturday Diary: Mammon and Mark Thompson
- Oct 8, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty ponders on religion and the BBC cuts.
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Friday Diary: What Would Kate Do?
- Sep 30, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty praises a unique form of dieting discipline.
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Friday Diary: Dale Farm, Nicky Campbell And The Big Move To Salford
- Sep 23, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty witnesses an assault on a bailiff at Dale Farm and continues her eavesdropping adventures.
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Friday Diary: God Save The Queen!
- Sep 16, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty tells us why she owes Her Majesty a debt of gratitude. All over lippy.
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Friday Diary: The Cameron v Johnson Grudge Match
- Sep 9, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty explains the importance of the wider family to a child's upbringing and looks forward to the Paralympics.
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Friday Diary: Living Without TV
- Sep 2, 2011
Shelagh Fogarty has forsaken TV for a week and this is what she found...
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About Shelagh Fogarty
Shelagh presents the Lunchtime Show for BBC Five Live.
She previously co-presented Five Live’s Breakfast show with Nicky Campbell where they were multiple Sony Radio Award winners. During this time she interviewed the country's top politicians, sports stars, musicians and actors. Shelagh excels at live outside broadcast and has covered some of the biggest world events internationally and across the UK. With her intelligent, sometimes irreverent sense of humour, Shelagh can make politics and the most hard-hitting news stories accessible to a mass audience.
A graduate in Spanish, French and Portuguese from Durham University, Shelagh started her career with the BBC as a broadcast journalist. She trained across Britain, reporting and producing for various BBC Radio and TV regions including Radio Four and BBC North West, working on programmes including The World at One, PM, Sunday Service and Euronews.
Her BBC career has included anchoring coverage of the American presidential elections, broadcasting live from St Peters Square in Rome for the funeral of Pope John Paul II and covering the devastation of the Boxing Day tsunami from Thailand. A compassionate and thoughtful journalist, Shelagh was invited to cover the live service at Anfield marking the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough Tragedy, and has also reported on the James Bulger murder trial and the Madrid train bombings. Most recently she was one of the first UK journalists to reach Japan following the tsunami there.
An experienced presenter and writer, Shelagh has been a guest reporter for ITV on Tonight with Trevor McDonald, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and BBC’s The One Show. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Total Politics and The Tablet.