Elizabeth Glinka
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter
Elizabeth was born and grew up in Staffordshire where she went to school before studying politics at the University of Exeter.
She worked in France for a year and then landed at ITV before joining BBC Radio 4’s factual unit in 2003. She worked on a range of output including Farming Today – and to this day knows more about the Common Agricultural Policy than is strictly necessary.
After helping to launch a new series of documentaries for the BBC Asian Network, which included an award winning investigation into honour violence, Elizabeth became a researcher on BBC Radio 5 live’s late night Stephen Nolan show. It was during this period she decided she wanted to be a reporter, and took a career break to complete a post graduate degree in journalism.
She returned to the BBC in 2007, where she read the news for the Asian Network before heading to local radio to learn her craft. She spent a couple of years bombing around rural Herefordshire and Worcestershire in a battered radio car – trying not to get stuck in rising flood waters.
In 2010 she became a BBC political reporter in the Midlands region working across Staffordshire, Cheshire and latterly Birmingham and the Black Country. During this period she covered the high water mark of the BNP and reported on the rise of the EDL in some of England’s most deprived communities.
In 2013 she became part of the TV presentation team at BBC Midlands Today, and has presented the region’s Sunday Politics opt as well films for Inside Out. As a senior reporter she covered the Trojan Horse inquiries in Birmingham, the re-opening of the 1974 Pub Bombing inquests and numerous high profile court cases including the Daniel Pelka abuse trial.
Elizabeth spent 2015 working as a BBC news correspondent in London – reporting across TV and radio on a range of stories including the Hatton Garden jewellery heist. There was also that time she was literally blown off screen while trying to hold on to a BBC umbrella.
She lives in Birmingham and is proud to be a Brummie. It has more canals then Venice you know.
