Gwenan Edwards

Gwenan Edwards is a Welsh journalist, television presenter and trained musician.
Born in Bangor, Gwynedd, she was educated at Ysgol Tryfan and Ysgol Friars, and at Brooke House College in Leicestershire. She trained as a musician, playing the piano and flute. She is a fluent Welsh speaker.
She trained as a print journalist with Surrey and South London Newspapers, and after working in radio, first appeared on television on Wales at Six for ITV Wales. She then joined the BBC, co-anchoring the London-based regional news programme, Newsroom South East. In 2000, she joined the BBC News Channel and has also since presented for BBC World News. She has reported from Africa, India, the Middle East, the US and much of Europe. She reported from New York in the aftermath of 9/11. After presenting the channel's travel programme, FastTrack - (now renamed, The Travel Show), she reported and presented for a series of consumer programmes on ITV and BBC, including Watchdog. She also narrated a four-part series for BBC2 "Aberglasney - a garden lost in time", which followed the restoration of the gardens at a mansion in west Wales.
She completed a documentary course at the National Film and Television School, (NFTS) and has made short films, including a number for BBC World Television. She is a voting member of BAFTA and has been involved in their Youth Mentoring Programme in partnership with the Media Trust. She also works as a media and journalism trainer with the BBC Academy and BBC College of Journalism.
As a trained classical musician, she has presented for three series of and for . She also made a film with the cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber.
She has made short films for the BBC, including one in Armenia in the south Caucasus, and another with a South African Girls' Choir, the Pretoria High School for Girls, who visited the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. She also shot and produced films for BBC World on the islands of Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe, off west Africa.

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