An Audience With Trevor Nunn

Susie Fowler-Watt — Host

Susie Fowler-Watt presents BBC Look East, the BBC's regional news programme for the Eastern Counties.

After school, Susie won an English Speaking Union scholarship to study in the USA. She then went to Cambridge University, where she read Philosophy and Experimental Psychology. She went on to do a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the London College of Printing, and was awarded a BBC Bursary.

Susie has worked for the BBC since she was 21. She started out in local radio, as Lowestoft reporter for BBC Radio Suffolk. Later she moved to Westminster where she was an Assistant Producer for BBC political programmes. She went on to become the political correspondent for BBC East. During her career, she has interviewed many of the country's top politicians, including the last four prime ministers.

In 1997, Susie was offered the job presenting BBC Look East, and has worked alongside co-presenter Stewart White ever since. Both of them have editorial input, and will sometimes report for the programme as well.

Susie is married to Alex Dunlop, a reporter for BBC Look East. They live in Norfolk with their two children, as well as a dog, a cat, chickens and ducks. In her spare time, Susie sings in a choir, and enjoys the cinema, theatre and kick-boxing!

Sir Trevor Nunn —

From 1968 to 1986, he was the youngest ever Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, The Coast of Utopia, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He has directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s plays Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock n Roll; and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express and Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes The Lady From The Sea (Almeida); Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind (Old Vic); Cyrano de Bergerac, Kiss Me Kate (Chichester); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); A Chorus of Disapproval, All That Fall and Relative Values (West End); The Wars of the Roses (Kingston Rose Theatre); Pericles (TFANA New York).