Nancy Durham is a Canadian journalist.

Career

Durham was born and educated in Canada at the

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and

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

. She began her career in journalism at the

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(CBC) in Toronto in the seventies. After emigrating to the UK in 1984 she continued to work as a journalist for the CBC as well as with the

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(BBC). In 1994 she became a video journalist covering the

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from all sides in the conflict. Her television work took her across Europe, the former USSR, Africa, Europe, and Iraq. She is an occasional presenter on

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internet radio and a trustee of the

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, London.

Personal life

In 2003 she and her husband, the Oxford philosopher of science

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(1943–2023), planted a field of

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on their farm in mid Wales, the first to do so in Wales on a field scale. They have since expanded their operations becoming the only distillers of

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. Their company, Welsh Lavender Ltd, produces face and body creams.

References

External links

CBC biography of Nancy Durham

Welsh Lavender Ltd
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