Who's Who on Eye on Wales

Selma Chalabi

After a career working first in the arts, and then on the BBC website, joining the Eye On Wales team in 2008 to make radio programmes felt like coming home. Some might consider radio to be a "less glamorous" sibling to television, and perhaps an antiquated relation of the internet. But for me, it's the perfect medium. The simplicity of its technology gives me freedom as a reporter, and allows me to get intimate material that would be difficult in other media.

I'm passionate about getting people to tell their stories in their own voice, and that's what Eye on Wales does.

There aren't many jobs where you can delve into a range of interesting subjects, and then talk to people about their thoughts or experiences on any given topic. I still think I'm one of the luckiest people in the business.

Chris Dearden

North West Wales certainly gives me a variety of places to work, from the top of our highest mountain to underground caves in Llandudno or Blaenau Ffestiniog. In the eight years I've been travelling round the area I've ended up climbing the towers of the Menai Suspension Bridge, flying over Holyhead in a yellow helicopter and standing in a tank of sharks... all in the name of work of course!

Away from the day job, I'm often out and about with my wife in our Volkswagen T2 camper van, as well as indulging in my passion for narrow gauge steam trains.

Stephen Fairclough

I live and work in the most densely populated part of Wales, which is great because there are so many interesting people with stories to tell about their lives in South East Wales and the Valleys. My job is so varied that one day, I could be speaking to children repairing bikes for others in Pontypridd. Another, I'll be in Newport talking to people who are worried about losing their jobs. The next day could be in Ebbw Vale finding out how people are trying to turn the area into a tourism hotspot. I spent five years living in Aberystwyth and I've worked for the BBC in Bangor.

Although I love being by the sea, my home is in the South Wales Valleys. I'd like to be able to spend more time just relaxing in it, but there's always someone to go and talk to...

Sarah Moore

Some people tell me I have the best job because I cover Pembrokeshire. It's certainly true, whether I'm heading on a boat to Skomer Island, standing on the esplanade overlooking Tenby harbour, or driving to a farm in the rugged Preseli Hills, I do have some of the best views of all in my workplace.

In my life I've moved around a lot, including almost 10 years spent living in Austria. Sadly I don't have much use for my German language skills in Pembrokeshire, but at least I don't feel bad here about the fact that I can't ski.

I was 30 when I decided I needed to stop faffing around and come home and get a proper job, and I chose the BBC! I cut my reporter teeth in BBC local radio, before joining BBC Wales in 2005. It's here that I've discovered the best de-stress therapy in the world, a brisk walk on a windswept beach with my dog.

Tom Singleton

Dylan Thomas famously called Swansea an "ugly, lovely town." In my opinion, his observation still holds true for my patch. At one end of the great sweep of Swansea Bay, you have the sprawling, heavy industry of Port Talbot, a great driver of the Welsh economy. Follow that bay round to its most westerly point, and you are at Gower: beautiful, unspoilt, and one of Wales' principal tourist attractions. And, in between, you have much more besides, not least Swansea itself - Wales' second city - and its surrounding towns and valleys.

Lots of different places and people with lots of stories to tell - and as interesting and varied a patch as a reporter could ask for. As for me, I was born and grew up in Newport. I went to university in England, before coming back to Wales - via a year in China - to train as a journalist. I moved here, to Swansea, in 2009.