I'm part of the radio unit, I'm a sound engineer. Usually I'm in studios at work either doing sessions or doing regular radio programmes, you know, drive time programmes, breakfast programmes. But then you also get to go out on the road for things like this for Outside Broadcasts. So we cover a lot of festivals – we've got one of us who's mixing the bands in the truck and I'm the person that's sort of in between the truck and stage being their eyes.

I came straight from sixth form where I sort of did a Broadcasting course but my technical knowledge was pretty small and I went straight into the BBC on one of the BBC apprenticeship schemes.

Everyone needs to have different skills and everyone brings different things to the table. Obviously your technical knowledge has kind of got to be there but I always think, and I always say to people who are trying to get into it, that can come with time, that's what you learn. What's really important I think is your social skills, being able to talk to loads of different people, getting along with the whole team, being able to deal with a changing environment.

I seem to just have this library of people who I can go "what mic shall I use on this?" and they go "oh, I used it on the Foo Fighters once and it wasn't that great", you know what I mean? I've got all of these people around me who just have all this knowledge and are so keen to share. And I've learnt absolutely everything about my job from the people around me so I think that source of knowledge is so important so never be scared to ask questions. The amount of times people say there's no such thing as a stupid question, there really isn't and don't be shy of doing that, that's a great way to learn.

It's quite a tough industry for females as well. Unfortunately, a male-dominated industry. But, for any females out there, don't be disheartened by that fact because you are by far good enough.

This job is amazing because, I mean, there are like pinch me moments. You know if I could tell my little 14-year-old self what I was doing now or the people I'm working with. It's totally bonkers but, yeah, it's great.