Client details
Vivienne Parry
Agent
| Carol MacArthur | +44 (0) 20 3214 0880 |
About
| Vivienne Parry is a writer and broadcaster with an unusually wide range of skills. A scientist by training, Vivienne has presented Tomorrow's World, reported for Panorama and been a columnist for the News of the World. Her voice is familiar to many Radio 4 listeners as the presenter of the popular series 'Inside the Ethics Committee' and 'Am I normal?' and she also writes and presents many other programmes for radio including most recently a three part series on clinical trials, for BBC World Service and a debate on reproductive technologies for Radio 3. She also broadcasts regularly for Five Live and is a pundit on many TV programmes including Question Time, the Wright Stuff and Richard and Judy. Her writing is as diverse as her broadcasting. She is medical science correspondent of the Times and has a weekly column in Body and Soul. She also contributes features to the Times as well as the Guardian, Mail on Sunday and many other newspapers. She is science editor of Good Housekeeping and also their agony aunt, Dear Viv. She is writer in residence for the Foresight obesities project at the Office of Science and Innovation. Her most recent book 'The Truth about Hormones' was critically acclaimed and shorlisted for the 2006 Aventis Science Prize. Vivienne is in constant demand as a chair and facilitator. Her clients include the Royal Society, Royal Institution and British Association for the Advancement of Science, Government including the Department of Health (where she hosts the Chief Scientific Officer's conference and also facilitated the 2005 pandemic flu exercise for the G8 nations), the DfES, the Dti and most of the major pharmaceutical companies. She is also a sought after media trainer, particularly for scientists and doctors. Vivienne started out in life running a medical research charity and in addition to her media work, currently runs the charitable trust of a FTSE 100 company. She was a Trustee of the Diana Memorial Fund at its inception, having worked closely with the late Princess of Wales for many years. In another life, she has an award winning garden which is open to the public under the National Gardens scheme. |
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| TITLE: THE TRUTH ABOUT HORMONES 2005 Atlantic | While we can name some hormones we rarely know what they actually do. But that doesn`t stop us claiming that `it`s our hormones` whenever our behaviour seems erratic. As it happens, we`re right. It is our hormones. And yes, we are completely in the thrall of things we know nothing about. In THE TRUTH ABOUT HORMONES Vivienne Parry explains how, exactly, these mysteriously powerful things affect us. |
