Journalist & Broadcaster

Marverine Cole is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. Her media and journalism career spans more than 30 years, as a live TV News Reporter, Producer and Presenter for many of the UK’s most watched and listened to broadcasters.

Her journalism career started in the city of her birth, Birmingham, working as a trainee TV reporter with ITV Central News, later moving to become reporter and breakfast newsreader with BBC WM, and a presenter at BBC Midlands Today.

London beckoned when Sky News asked Marverine to anchor their 5-hour rolling news programme World News and Business Report. However, during that time her love of radio never died because she also produced and presented documentaries for BBC 1Xtra (The Rise of the Female MC) and BBC Radio 4 (Luck Be A Lady Tonight, Black Girls Don’t Cry).

Documentaries aside, the cut and thrust of live radio has always been a draw from her days at BBC WM. She’s co-hosted the popular BBC Radio 4 programme Saturday Live with the Rev Richard Coles, and indulged in her lifelong love of classical music presenting shows for Classic FM.

Away from journalism, Marverine is an accredited Beer Sommelier and the resident columnist on all things craft beer and real ale for the UK’s most popular food and drink magazine, BBC GOOD FOOD.