Martin Davies

Life has been about helping others to get their stories out and share their voice. I’m a Pom from a close knit community on the Welsh border. Life was full of characters in that farming world,  where stories were swapped in pubs, in the markets, or after church.

My first job as a BBC radio reporter entailed breaking the story of a Muslim listener who had cut open a holy egg plant. My career took me to Africa as I launched BBC Africa Have Your Say. I earned a contract from Amnesty International to give African slum-dwellers a voice on radio, before leading a team designed to tell stories on TV about sport, to attract young female African viewers. I am now  working on a Community Radio News Agenda in Australia,  and run media courses in Africa in the French language. The best things in life are free I thought,  as soon after arriving here I mounted my bicycle in Sydney, to ride to Coffs Harbou