Norwich Highlights: Culture and Heritage with a Local Broadcaster

Nicki Bannerman is a London and Suffolk based radio broadcaster, host presenter, producer and podcast content creator, passionate about emotive human interest, lifestyle and empowering stories. As a copywriter, marketing consultant and broadcast journalist Nicki has also written regularly for magazines and newspapers, ghost-written multiple biographies and organised high profile events for music, film, tech and publishing companies including immersive theatre and working with Olympian athletes.

She is a host presenter of a wellbeing and lifestyle show on GenXRadio Suffolk and previous newsreader and reporter on community radio, has been a regular guest on BBC Suffolk and BBC Essex. Previously a producer/presenter on London's Radio Gorgeous with only female voices and has produced for the media and broadcasting industry including commissioned projects for Audible/ Amazon, and the BBC in London producing and host presenting podcasts to help women in broadcast. Her interviews have covered red carpet and back stage events and lifting men and women's voices for the Radio Academy including interviewing music stars and celebrities and broadcasters.

Nicki founded her own podcast 'The Influential Women Podcast' and hosts on all podcasting platforms including Apple, Google, Spotify and Alexa launched at WOWFest on International Womens Day in 2017. This podcast helps others with adversity by hearing the stories of inspiring and influential broadcasters, celebrities, authors and community representatives about their lives, influences, mantras and adversity they have overcome which may just help others in their day or their lives. Her proudest interviews include Ruby Wax and Frank Bruno on mental health, Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs and Nicholas Parsons and Vernon Kay on their work amongst many others.

Nicki takes commissions for podcasts, voice-overs and digital social marketing, content creation, scripts and copywriting projects. www.nickibannermanradio.co.uk and has voiced in Norway and for London hotels for Voicemap and multiple tours.

The tour begins on the enchanting Tombland, infront of Norwich Cathedral, at the Edith Cavell memorial statue where the brave and heroic British nurse and daughter of a local vicar is celebrated with her strong desire for peace not vengeance during the war years with 'no bitterness towards anyone'. You will find her statue near Erpingham Gate at Number 10 Tombland outside the gates to the Cathedral.