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Chris was a regional BBC radio journalist in Devon and Oxfordshire before joining BBC Business Programmes in London in 1996.

Since then he has produced or presented various network radio programmes including BBC Five Live’s Wake Up to Money, Moneycheck and Financial World Tonight.

From 1998 to 2000 he worked on setting up and establishing the extended business coverage on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

Chris now produces BBC Radio 4’s weekly Money Box and Money Box Live.

He also presented Money Box’s 25th anniversary special and was named BIBA (British Insurance Brokers’ Association) Broadcast Journalist of the Year 2001, in of his reports on topical issues.




Stephen Chilcott
Editor

Stephen Chilcott

As Editor of Weekly Business Programmes, Stephen has overall for Money Box.


He graduated from Leeds University in physics before joining Marks and Spencers as a management trainee; and then the BBC, working for 10 years on BBC Radio 4’s The World at One and PM.


In 1988 he was given control of Radio 4’s In Business programme, which he still edits.




Jennifer Clarke
Senior Producer

Jennifer Clarke

Jennifer came to work on Money Box in November 2000 after a spell as a producer on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.


Before that she produced business news for Radio 4’s Today programme; Five Live’s Wake Up To Money and Financial World Tonight. She has also worked on Radio 4’s In Business.


Jennifer read English at Oxford before studying for a masters degree in radio production at Goldsmiths College.


Before the BBC, Jennifer was Weekend Editor at LBC radio.


Vincent Duggleby
Presenter, BBC Radio 4’s Money Box Live

Vincent Duggleby

Vincent has been in personal finance broadcasting for 25 years.


He launched Money Box in 1977 and Money Box Live in 1990. He presents Money Box Live during alternate months.


Vincent has also written for The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Independent.


His many awards include the Unit Trust Association Best Financial Journalist of the 1980s and the FT Harold Wincott Foundation broadcaster of the year in 1992.



Bob Howard
Reporter

Bob joined the Money Box team in November 2005. He reported from more than 30 countries in five years as BBC Radio 5 Live’s roving reporter. Bob has reported for many BBC Radio 4 programmes including From Our Own , Crossing Continents, Woman’s Hour, PM and The World Tonight.



Jessica Laugharne
Senior Producer

Jessica Laugharne

Jessica joined the BBC in 1996.

After a short spell in Subtitling, she joined Current Affairs as a broadcast assistant on BBC Radio 4’s Analysis and Law In Action programmes.

She then worked as a researcher for various business programmes before becoming a producer on Money Box and Inside Money.


Nathalie Knowles
Web Producer

Nathalie Knowles

Nathalie joined the BBC in March 1999 to work for World Service News programmes.


She then moved to the BBC News Website in August 2000 and continued there until May 2002.


Nathalie looks after or contributes to a number of programme sites including Money Box, Inside Money, Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent.

In 2004, the Money Box website was runner-up in the New Media section of the Bradford & Bingley Personal Finance Journalism Awards.



Paul Lewis
Presenter, Money Box and Money Box Live

Paul Lewis

Paul Lewis has presented Money Box since September 2000.


He also presents our Monday phone-in, Money Box Live in alternate months.

Since he turned full-time to writing and broadcasting on finance in 1986, Paul has won numerous prizes, most recently he was the only broadcast journalist named in the Money Marketing list of people with “power and influence in financial services”.


Before joining Money Box, Paul presented Radio Five Live’s early morning finance programme Wake Up To Money.


He is the author of Your Taxes and Savings 2002 and writes regularly for several newspapers and magazines.

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Diane Richardson
Researcher

Di researches stories and background , prepares briefings and finds interviewees. She also produces Money Box Live and the Money Box website.


Di began her career at the BBC World Service before working on a variety of current affairs programmes including the Radio 4 debates and the Five Live Report.


She has also researched Nice Work, Lost Leaders and The Week on Radio Five Live.



In addition to the regular staff, a number of reporters work with us from time to time.

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