After her recovery, she joined Thames Television in 1973 as co-presenter with Tony Bastable on the consumer programme Money-Go-Round,[4] produced by Mary McAnally.
She broadcast for Capital from the station's very first day on air, and co-presented a daily three-hour live programme Swap Shop with Tommy Vance.
She produced and presented for the BBC's Tonight the first live broadcast of a total hip replacement operation relayed from the then London Hospital, Whitechapel to a conference of surgeons in Bern, Switzerland.
One of the programmes, Keeping the Beat, which challenged currently held views on fat and cholesterol won the Medical Journalists Association and Pearl Assurance Special Merit Award (1986).
[citation needed] Central Television's Viewpoint series commissioned an international look at approaches to mental illness, Forgotten Millions (1987), which Shenton co-produced with David Cohen.
A one-hour documentary, Impotence – One in Ten Men, for Channel 4[8] won the British Medical Association Educational Merit Award (1990).
[10][11] A programme for Channel 4's Dispatches series (AIDS: The Unheard Voices), produced by Jad Adams, was the first of four Meditel commissions on the subject.
[18] In 2000, Shenton and Huw Christie, editor of Continuum magazine, made Search for Solutions: The Great AIDS Debate for M-Net's Carte Blanche programme in South Africa.
[21] The following year, the independent film Positively False: Birth of a Heresy, co-produced with Andi Reiss, was released by Meditel and Yellow Productions.
[23][24] In 2014, Shenton and Reiss made a 30-minute documentary, Positive Hell, which followed the lives of five individuals in Northern Spain who survived a diagnosis of HIV while shunning medication for decades.
The charity has constructed extra schoolroom wings in five rural schools, a polyclinic and a rehabilitation centre in Puerto Plata hospital.
[30] Shenton sings with Latin American folk band Altamar which has performed on Capital Radio, at the Royal Albert Hall and in many theatres and wine bars.