Nick Lawrence


Nick Lawrence is a former radio and TV presenter turned broadcast journalist and crisis communication consultant. Between 2001 - 2010 he appeared on many BBC and radio current affairs programmes. He reported on Watchdog for three years, where he worked alongside Nicky Campbell, Julia Bradbury, and Paul Heiney. He has also reported and produced on a number of other BBC programmes including Inside Out, The Politics Show, Rogue Traders, Whistleblower, You and Yours and Face The Facts.

Early life

Lawrence was born and brought up in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He went to the Heath Grammar School. At university he studied a Drama and Theatre Studies course. He was an English teacher in an upper school for four years in Northamptonshire.

Broadcasting career

Lawrence started out at Northants 96 on the breakfast show in the early 90s, before moving onto presenting the breakfast show at Chiltern FM in Dunstable with and Sarah Isherwood in 1996, he then hosted BBC Three Counties' breakfast show, from October 2001. It won a Sony Award Silver in for a feature on homeless people.