Stephanie West

Biography

Stephanie's reports have included interviews with Robert Plant on the Led Zep reunion, Shane MacGowan on the censorship of Fairytale of New York and the Coen Brothers on their Oscar-winning No Country For Old Men.

She has also reported on subjects as diverse as teenage gang culture and 21st Century beach huts.

She's made several music documentaries including "Band Aid 20" and "Bono's Millions" for BBC One, and developed the Emmy-nominated "John Peel's Record Box" for Channel 4.

Covering shifts from the rise of Britpop to the advent of download culture, she's interviewed key players from Morrissey to U2, Bruce Springsteen to Coldplay.

Based in Los Angeles for six years, for IRN and then BBC Radio 5 Live, she covered the OJ Simpson trial, the 1994 earthquake, the death of Kurt Cobain and Sinatra's 80th Birthday Party, as well as interviewing Harvey Weinstein, Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise, Clint Eastwood, Nicole Kidman and Kate Winslet.

Returning to California in 2001 as the LA corresondent for BBC Liquid News she covered Arnold Schwarzenegger's run for Governor, and more Oscars and trials (including Michael Jackson and Winona Ryder).

Stephanie started out as a reporter at Independent Radio News in the early 90s, where she covered the release of the Birmingham Six and went to Northern Iraq to report on the Kurdish refugee crisis.

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