Felicity Evans

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Felicity Evans is a Welsh journalist and broadcaster, who has worked as the Political Editor of BBC Wales since 2018. [1]

She comes from Ebbw Vale, but was brought up in Manchester, [2] and now lives in Cardiff. [3] After studying law at the University of Oxford, with the original intention of becoming a barrister, [4] she began her career as a broadcast journalist on BBC Radio Wales, where she became presenter of the flagship morning news magazine programme Good Morning Wales, alongside Oliver Hides with whom she had previously been a co-presenter on Good Evening Wales. She later became the main presenter on the politics programme Dragon's Eye. [4] She moved on to present Week In Week Out and Eye on Wales, and now appears regularly on the nightly news programme Wales Today .

In 2019, Evans was named in fifth place on the WalesOnline "Pinc List" of influential LGBT+ people in Wales, [3] having entered the list at number 25 in 2015. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Felicity Evans appointed new BBC Cymru Wales Political Editor". BBC Media Centre. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Good Morning Wales - Felicity Evans" . Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Wales' most influential LGBT+ peopledate=18 August 2019". Wales on Sunday. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Don't mind your Ps and Qs: Felicity Evans". WalesOnline. 19 February 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Hannah Jones (15 August 2015). "The Pinc List: The 40 most influential LGBT people in Wales". WalesOnline. Retrieved 15 January 2022.


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