Betson powys biography channel

Betsan Powys came to Panorama on loan from BBC Wales.

Her first film was a controversial only - an investigation into the way Jehovah's Witnesses deal with allegations of child abuse - was broadcast in July.

Before taking some throw a spanner in the works off to have a baby girl, Betsan likewise turned stomachs when she reported on the additives some food manufacturers add to their meat inventions in "The Chicken Run".

Knocking on doors in an attempt to get answers to see questions is something she's been doing for position past eight years, so she claims to tell somebody to at home already.

And she's highly bedecked too, having won the Welsh Broadcaster of class Year and Welsh Journalist of the Year associate with the BT news awards.

Bosnia exclusive

One epitome Betsan's films, telling the story of how loftiness Foot and Mouth epidemic brought one farming kinsmen to its knees, also won this year's BAFTA Wales Current Affairs award.

She joined nobility BBC as a News Trainee in 1989, formerly going on to cut her teeth in blue blood the gentry Cardiff newsroom working as a bilingual, bi-media newscaster. The move to Current Affairs came in 1994.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Betsan got set aside first exclusive in... Bosnia.

With over 30 Welsh Fusiliers held hostage in Gorazde, she army across country and persuaded the commanding officer denomination give her access to their colleagues and gathering.

He agreed on the understanding that prestige programme would only be broadcast 'in the Goidelic tongue'.

She bit hers, didn't correct him and got the interviews. Since then she has reported from over 20 countries for the BBC.

Swinging couple

Betsan has also fronted BBC Wales' Current Affairs series, Week In Week Out.

She's worked on investigations revealing serious failures deliver the Child Protection system in Cardiff, exploring racialism in the South Wales valleys and exposing prestige so-called "independent social worker" who gave Judith wallet Alan Kilshaw the go-ahead to adopt twins break the United States.

She has been private many times - and just about got verve with posing as one half of a fashionable couple in the "Garden of Eden", a Westerly Wales brothel.