the-BA : Sue Nelson Biography

Sue Nelson is a Radio 4 science presenter, writer and a former BBC science and environment correspondent for Breakfast and the One O’clock TV news. An award-winning journalist and broadcaster – and an experienced live performer for 5 Live and News 24 - her reports have appeared on all the BBC’s national TV and radio news bulletins including Today and The Ten O’clock News.

Sue has interviewed scientists, authors, artists and astronauts - including riding a moon buggy on the streets of London with Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon. She has reported from the foundations of the Millennium Dome and the London Eye, wrestled with a live python for a feature on exotic pets and was suspended in a workman’s cradle above Piccadilly Circus to reveal its first digital advert. Her online banking expose for Newsnight – setting up accounts to show how easily a hacker could access her cash - resulted in major banks and building societies reassessing their security measures.

Co-author of the popular science book How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, Sue has written for The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian and The Independent and has contributed opinion columns on science for the Times. She wrote Is That Jimmy’s Ring You’re Wearing for Radio 2 (starring Twiggy and Adam Faith) and two of her screenplays have been made into short films. Roses are Red – a scientific thriller - was shortlisted for SciFilm 07 while Little Devils was nominated for best film at the 2007 Creative East Awards. It will also be shown in 19 cities across 6 countries during the 2007 International Festival of Cinema and Technology.

Sue is a regular guest presenter for Material World while her own series, Citizen Science, prompted a call from the Palace – royalty had enjoyed the programme!

Sue hosted the x-change at the 2007 BA Festival of Science in York and spoke at the x-change in November 2004 at the Dana Centre.

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