She is the creator of the BBC Radio 4 podcast Tunnel 29 and author of the book of the same title.
Tunnel 29 was a 10-part podcast series, launched by the BBC in October 2019, revealing how a group of young men tunnelled under the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s to smuggle people out of East Berlin.
The series gathered TV and press coverage across the world, and helped bring the medium – and an incredible story – to a brand new audience.
"[3] The book Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2021 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall.
The condition, affecting the hearing in her right ear, was brought on after the birth of her second child.