Last updated January 2007
Category: Senior Staff
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Leo Devine was appointed Head of Journalism Production for the BBC Nations and
Regions division in September 2006.
He has – uniquely – run four of the 12 English Regions.
Most recently he spent
two years as Head of Regional and Local Programmes (HRLP) at BBC North West in
Manchester from 2004 to 2006 after an 18 month spell running BBC South East
region, based in Tunbridge Wells.
Prior to that he spent four years as HRLP
South West, based in Plymouth, following a year as HRLP West, based in Bristol,
in 1998/89.
His broadcasting career began in the Eighties when he worked as a journalist and
presenter for the BBC in the East Midlands and London, working for Radio
Current Affairs and Magazine Programmes - including You And Yours, Woman's Hour and In Touch.
He was appointed Assistant Editor at BBC Radio Leicester in 1991 and
then became Editor of BBC Radio Cornwall in 1995.
After a spell as Acting HRLP South West in 1997, he took up the post of Editor,
BBC Cambridge, where he was the driving force behind the TV and radio
newsgathering operation serving Cambridgeshire and the surrounding counties.
Then in 1998 he went to BBC West in Bristol for the first of his four HRLP
postings.
