About
Victoria Derbyshire is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. She presents her news and current affairs show every weekday morning from 10am - midday on BBC Radio Five Live and a television interview series called 'Victoria Derbyshire Interviews' for the BBC News Channel. In the last ten years she has reported on the some of the world's biggest news stories, including 9/11, the Paris Concorde crash, the Guantanamo Bay military prison and inside Zimbabwe.
She won the Sony Gold Award in 2011 for the Best News & Current Affairs Programme. Last year she also won a Mind Mental Health Media Award for her sensitive handling of an interview with an alcoholic doctor, and the Association of International Broadcasters Award for clear and intelligent coverage of the Alternative Vote issue. In 2009 she won Radio 4's Nick Clarke Award for interviewing.
Victoria appears weekly on Lorraine on ITV1 as a newspaper reviewer, as well as reporting for BBC One on The One Show and Watchdog and has presented BBC Breakfast News and on the BBC News Channel. She also hosts regular audience debate programmes involving senior politicians for the BBC News Channel. In the past she presented a sports chat show for Channel 4, SportTalk.
In 2011 she made her debut on Have I Got News For You.
Victoria is regularly asked to chair conferences and host awards ceremonies, including for the Local Government Association, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, the 'Ow Do Media Awards and various business awards.
Victoria is a regular contributor to The Times.
