Daily Telegraph 25th August 2020 By Anita Singh It has been business as usual on Channel 5 News during lockdown. Sian Williams, polished and professional, delivering the teatime bulletin from her studio. Except, unbeknown to viewers, that studio was…
News feeds on tragedy. When others run from danger, we run towards it, keen to witness disaster first-hand, trying to interpret the inexplicable, asking those in grief or shock to articulate how it feels. We are always looking for…
After Essex, Yorkshire and London’s East End, the latest in Channel 4’s Educating … documentary series is set in Wales. Joy Ballard – the Head of Willows High School in Cardiff, talks to Sian Williams about why she agreed…
I’m at the University of Cambridge and I’m having a panic attack. I can’t breathe, my head’s spinning, my heart’s going like the clappers and there’s a psychiatrist standing next to me and she’s the one that’s provoked it. Deliberately.…
What’s it like to lose your mind? Scilla knows. Day by day and bit by frustrating bit, her memory is failing her. She often can’t remember what she’s eaten or whether she’s taken the dog for a walk and…
Williams, 51, complained that her male rivals, such as Edwards, 54, were treated differently to women. She said: “I was called ‘veteran’. They don’t call Huw Edwards ‘veteran’. We grew up together at BBC News and he’s a couple…
Hillsborough, the Asian tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake: is it possible for news reporters to keep emotions in check when covering such traumatic events? Former BBC Breakfast presenter Sian Williams explains how studying psychology is enabling her to help her…
Former BBC1 Breakfast presenter Sian Williams tells how covering disasters convinced her that reporters need protecting from post-traumatic stress.…