Caroline Haydon started life in journalism by the time honoured method of covering golden weddings, pools winners and summer fetes for a freesheet newspaper near Bristol, working up to the the odd feature for the student magazine at Oxford ,(where she read English) and then on to the Western Mail in Cardiff. There she became a graduate trainee in the newsroom, trying to escape the routine whereby the boys did the politics and the girls the fashion.

Following stints in the Newport office and on the features desk, she moved to London to the Times Educational Supplement to cover what were then known as “multi cultural issues” . She sneaked into the BBC by the back door by working on the first ever edition of Newsnight as a copy taster for Peter Snow ( later producing some of his election graphics), going on to work as producer with Charles Wheeler in New York and Washington and going the rounds of current affairs programmes including Breakfast Time, where she was day editor.

A hop to ITN, where she made films and worked on the Foreign Desk for Channel Four news, was followed by a few years as Deputy Commissioning Editor for Current Affairs at Channel 4. There she worked on most of the department’s main international and political programming , including Dispatches, Sorious Samura’s and Michael Portillo’s first films for the channel , the Powerlist , and the Political Awards. When not enthusiastically trying to advance True Vision’s latest blockbuster she works as a freelance education writer, with a weekly careers advice column for the Independent Education Supplement.