Helena Kennedy has presented many radio and television programmes. These include Heart of the Matter, Raw Deal and the award-winning Time, Gentlemen, Please, all for the BBC.

With the producer/director Polly Bide, she made the film Mothers Behind Bars, which changed penal policy in women's prisons. She was also the first female moderator of television's Hypotheticals. In 1987, with the playwright Peter Flannery, she created the highly political drama series Blind Justice, which took the lid off many of the legal scandals of the time.

She is frequently a guest on current affairs and discussion programmes on both radio and television, including Any Questions, Newsnight, Question Time and The Today Programme.


Television

2003 Guest presenter, After Dark (Channel 4); regular host in the 1980s
Late-night discussion programme.

1997 Presenter, The Death of Diana (Channel 4)
The constitutional and cultural impact of the death of the Princess of Wales.

1994 Presenter, Time, Gentlemen, Please (BBC Scotland)
Programme on sexual equality. Winner, Television Programme category, Industrial Journalism Awards.

1991 Presenter, The Maguires: Forensic evidence on trial (BBC2)

1990 Co-producer, Mothers Behind Bars (Channel 4)

1990 Presenter, Raw Deal (BBC2)
Series of programmes on medical negligence.

1980s–90s Moderator, Hypotheticals (Granada)
First female moderator – for programmes on surrogate motherhood and artificial insemination – in series that analysed current affairs with leading politicians and policy-makers using hypothetical situations.

1987 Co-creator, Blind Justice (BBC-TV)
Award-winning drama series that told some uncomfortable truths about the state of the justice system in contemporary Britain.

1987 Presenter, Heart of the Matter (BBC1)

1987 Presenter, Putting Women in the Picture (BBC2)


Radio

1998 Presenter, Unwritten Law (BBC Radio 4)
Series on libel.

1990 Presenter, The Trial of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (BBC Radio 4)

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