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My flight leaves in T-2 hours and I'm just about packed and good to go. Taking carry-on luggage only leaves me slightly limited on space but given that i've got a short stopover in Hong Kong I don't want to risk my bag NOT making it to Manila. That would be a disaster given i'm only on the ground in The Philippines for about 48 hours. I'm hosting and M/C ing the UNITE Global Summit 2026. UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health is an organisation that kind of does wha

Dzień dobry, państwu! I’m writing this from the airport in Poland 🇵🇱 waiting for my delayed flight home (thanks RyanAir). But the delays will not dull the buzz of the last few days. Old Town My first visit to beautiful Gdańsk with Jono and his team at Nuclear Strategy to host the first in a series of gatherings for the civil nuclear sector. We’ve been in Manchester for a few years now for the GB 🇬🇧 focus… but this is now a genuinely important moment for European nuclear.

This week I got back to my comfort zone - physically and professionally. The heatwave and record breaking temperatures in the UK meant that it wasn't necessarily an ideal time to be travelling into central London. However, I knew that at the end of that journey, there would be an air conditioned studio, a microphone and a brilliant interviewer (@BBCNuala) to make it all worthwhile. Plus of course the chance to be back broadcasting and storytelling. The setting? BBC Radio 4's

The BREXIT decade ‼️ Ten years ago today, Britain voted by the narrowest of margins to leave the European Union. I was on CNN that day and the days that followed, on Downing Street, as David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister. I remember debate, disagreement, disillusionment, division. Ten years later, and not much has changed in that regard. We're about to get our 7th PM and few could argue that 🇬🇧 is better off after Brexit. On a positive note, I will say that I have the

LVJ My husband and I met at journalism college many, many moons ago so have always found ourselves in the same industry (never as rivals, I should add). A while ago he decided Social Media wasn't really for him. Bit too toxic, not serving him in any healthy way. Plus he had a breastfeeding partner who clung to her phone for every connection she could get to the real world in the midst of a postnatal lockdown. I'll admit i've been phenomenally crap as Lewis's social media mana

Copied from my Substack This wasn’t exactly how it all started. This was 2017, a good three years into discovering motherhood wouldn’t be as easy as i’d always assumed. I’m the daughter of a midwife, with childbearing hips, who always believed I could decide exactly when and with whom I wanted to get pregnant. But along came the “unexplained infertility” of PCOS (polycystic without the syndrome), the bicornuate uterus (heart-shaped but less cute than it sounds), the month aft

An introduction to who I am, what I do, and why I'm joining the Substack community I've been thinking about how to start this for a while. The truth is, I've spent two decades telling stories — interviewing heads of state, moderating panels at global summits, anchoring breaking news as the world shifted in real time. I've been very comfortable holding the microphone and pointing it at someone else. While I have some experience of turning it on myself, that’s always felt a lit

The World Ovarian Cancer Coalition team has done a fantastic job in launching and leading this campaign!

World Ovarian Cancer Day is Friday, May 8th

#WorldOvarianCancerDay is nearly here... MAY 8th! As the host of "Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story" I am unbelievably privileged to get to speak to patients, advocates, oncologists, policymakers about this lethal disease. I get to hear the stories of hope, loss, love, strength and pain. Now i'm helping with a new campaign called REACH FOR THE SCARS! We're asking anyone affected by ovarian cancer to post a picture of your scars on social media. It could be a physical scar or

Ooof... I wasn't expecting that at 8am on a Tuesday! On entering Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, pre-caffeine, I was hit with a giant version of myself nonchalantly grinning back at... me. Giant Hannah was in fact bigger than actual hannah. She looked confident and poised. I hadn't even put my heels on yet 😬 Turns out, I can switch it on pretty quickly and it was wonderful to be back in the company of the great and good of British Nuclear. In geo-political crises like ours,

Spring has sprung and thank **** for that! I've never thought I was affected by seasonal-affective disorder, but the tail end of this winter really pushed me to my limits. The rain!!! Shwmae 👋 That said, i'm generally always happiest in water, on water, or by water (just maybe not underwater 🤔). A water baby from the off, i'm keen to embrace midlife in as much water as possible... which leaves me deeply predisposed to swimming. Yes folks, i'm in my wild swimming era! Last

Five years ago I kicked off my fabulous forties with a spring in my step. Thirties had been tumultuous and aside from the obvious lovelies of getting married, buying our first home and professional success, that decade was in fact... hard going. I wrestled with my womanhood and how I was to inhabit this body that wasn't doing what every other woman around me seemed to be doing with ease. When the lottery of life eventually did gift me a shot at motherhood, I was sure in my bo

This week i've jumped on another seemingly viral trend and prompted #ChatGPT with the following: "Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me" Full disclosure - I did this twice, curious to see how far I could curate my own AI outcome. Both times I added three different photos for the image generation. Here's the first: Now, I did add some details about the work that I do - news anchor, podcast host, interviewer, Emmy-nominated journalist - so I

Well hello 2026! Sorry, i've been a bit quiet over the last month. Nothing has been quiet on the personal front but I do like to take some time in a new year to reflect on the past and notice any shift in priorities. Ever since having my life on hold through our IVF years i've come to realise that as my identity shifts with age and life phases, so too do my priorities. That's not to say something that was a priority in 2025 is no longer on the list. Rather that the order of p

to be exhausted! So, December. We've not even hit Xmas yet and like most people, it's already been a MONTH. My son turned six so we had a party to enjoy/endure (thankfully shared with a few others from school); his grand old age mean't I could now "sign him" to his local football club via an official FA form (honestly it felt like my first official "Momager" act); The Year 1 Nativity was a hit, even if they have been rehearsing since the first week in November and I have felt

In the latest podcast episode of "Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story" I spoke to three amazing women about the latest study to come out about the experiences of women with ovarian cancer in low and middle income countries. The #EveryWomanStudyLMIC is the first of its kind to gather extensive data on women with ovarian cancer in this setting. I had the chance to talk to the study lead, Nigeria's country lead, and the editor of The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Healt

Last night I braved the cold and headed into London for a David Nott Foundation - Sips & Sutures event. Essentially a chance to see the extraordinary training the Foundation offers medics in conflict zones while sipping on a glass of bubbly. Now, I count myself lucky because it's not my first encounter with this amazing Foundation. The CEO James Gough is a dear friend. We met in a gym in south London many years ago and have since bonded over being married to Welsh folk (Gof

Yesterday's Sunday Times newspaper included an article written by my friend and fellow IVF-er, Gabby Griffith , with a picture of me looking stern and serious under the headline! The piece followed on from a legal case brought by an IVF patient against her private fertility clinic, ARGC, when she suffered a stroke after treatment. Her case centres on the so-called "add-on" treatment she underwent at her clinic's suggestion. I was interviewed by Gabby because in my long journ