In the early 1980s Helen moved into television, initially as a presenter and continuity announcer for Central, the ITV franchise for the Midland region; this led to lots of freelance voice work for corporate and commercial clients and she became one of the most recognised voices on ITV midlands, narrating over fifty broadcast television documentaries. Eventually, she moved behind the cameras and into television production as a staff producer of factual programmes in ITV’s regional programme department. (where she worked with Stephanie Wessell, one of the Twisted 50 Writers).

In 1988 Helen was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship and spent three months in Australia, looking at the role of Social Action Broadcasting, and on her return to the UK, she was instrumental in the founding of The Community Media Association, which provided television and media skills training to Charitable organisations and to the Voluntary and Statutory sectors, to assist them in their interaction with the press, radio and television. Helen has also worked extensively as a voice and television acting tutor working with students at Nottingham’s Trent College, Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre and at Lichfield Youth Theatre.
Helen is a member of the World Voices Organisation and has a WoVO approved home recording studio in her own home, she is a narrator member of APA, the Audio Publishers Association.

Helen has now returned to her roots, making occasional forays into acting, but mainly, her life now revolves around audiobooks and she remotely records for many major audiobook producers and publishers in the UK, the United States and even in Australia. She is an ACX audiobook producer and also produces author commissions.
 
Helen is thrilled to be working on the Audiobook version of Twisted 50. Finding fifty individual voices for fifty separate short stories written by fifty different authors is certainly a challenge … but one that she is looking forward to enormously … despite the nightmares from all that horror!

Helen Narrated A Story In Twisted50 Volume 1… Here is what she said…

Well, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to read one of the Twisted 50 stories myself could I? And Gooseberry Pie had my name on it – because not only do I read stories … I also bake!

I avoid watching horror films … partly because I tend to scream loudly when anything unexpected happens – Carrie is probably the last horror film I saw in the Cinema … I jumped clear of my seat and let out a yell that was even louder than the soundtrack when ‘that moment’ happened at the end.

Reading horror is easier … though I have had quite a few nightmares over the past few weeks.

Now back to the kitchen … I think I’ll do apple pie for tonight (home grown apples of course) not sure I could face gooseberry pie again just yet!

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