She worked at Radio Caroline (at Bristol dock) before writing articles for media magazines, which included Kerrang!.
She also presented a daily children's show along with Timmy Mallet at Radio Oxford, where she was called Susan Zinc.
Sunday Surgery dealt with social and health problems including sex, drugs, poverty and crime.
[citation needed] During her time at Heart she also occasionally presented shows for its sister station LBC as well as the BBC's Five Live service.
[citation needed] She joined Magic Radio to cover Angie Greaves' afternoon show in November 2016.
[citation needed] Boughton previously presented various youth programmes on television including The Base on ITV and "Hype" on BBC Choice.