Lucy Edwards is an award-winning BBC broadcaster, TV presenter and journalist whose screen work has helped change what audiences expect from disabled storytelling.

She began her BBC career in 2017, producing and presenting across Ouch! Disability Talk, BBC Radio 4’s In Touch and BBC News Online, before becoming the first blind presenter to host shows on BBC Radio 1 in 2019. Her television work spans BBC World News, BBC Click, BBC Bitesize, BBC Ideas and The Travel Show, where Lucy has taken audiences into places people wrongly assume blindness would shut her out of.

In her Royal Television Society award-winning BBC Travel Show documentary, How Does a Blind Girl Go on Safari?, Lucy travelled to Kenya for the Great Migration, proving that visual stories can be told through sound, instinct, atmosphere and emotional intelligence. She later presented Japan: The Way I See It, a BBC Travel Show film that earned her the RTS Breakthrough Award in 2024, with judges calling her “a refreshing, exciting talent” with “genuine originality and integrity”.

Whether reporting from across the world or fronting factual, travel, accessibility and human-interest television, Lucy brings rare warmth, curiosity and lived experience to screen — inviting viewers to feel the world differently, and reminding broadcasters that blindness is a lens, not a limitation. At a time when audiences are moving between television, social media and serialised documentary content, Lucy sits at the front of a new wave of British talent: a trusted BBC presenter with the reach of a major social media creator, and a public voice viewers want to spend more time with on screen.

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