Bethan wanted to be a journalist from a very early age and at seven years old remembers writing her own family newsletter to keep relatives in north and south Wales in touch... Her first front page splash was "Aunty Blod has new curtains at number 12..." It sold out and the only way was up!

After studying French and Italian at University, she went on to study print and European journalism in Cardiff and Paris, working for the Winter Olympics, Reuters and Le Figaro. She joined BBC Wales in 1992, reporting mainly on foreign stories including the war in the former Yugoslavia, famine in Sudan and the conflict in the middle east.

For nine years, she was a political correspondent for BBC Wales and then BBC World Service and World Television, fronting news and political programmes and election coverage on both radio and television. On her first day in the the London office, John Major called a general election so it was straight onto the campaign trail and into the Blair years. She'll never forget waiting to interview the former prime minister in the cabinet room in Downing Street - it was a very long wait and so Bethan was mortified when Mr Blair walked in to find her and her colleagues trying to impersonate him. She thinks he saw the funny side...

Bethan and family moved back to Cardiff in 2006. Since then it's been early starts presenting Good Morning Wales...Bethan also presents the Welsh-language political chat show CF99 with Vaughan Roderick on S4C.