HENRY BONSU Journalist

A graduate of Magdalene College, Oxford, Henry, aged 32, has been a journalist since 1990. During a six year stint at the BBC, he worked on the Today programme, the World at One, Black Britain, Public Eye, and Breakfast News. He has written for national and regional newspapers including the Times, the Daily Express, Manchester Evening News and London Evening Standard, as well as leading black publications like the Voice, New Nation, and Pride magazine.

Twice winner of an Ethnic Multicultural Media Award for radio, for two years Henry presented "Upfront" on BBC GLR 94.9. He now presents the "Henry Bonsu show", a nightly news, talk and phone-in show on BBC London Live, interviewing politicians, celebrities, and decision-makers including Paul Boateng, Steve Norris, Margaret Hodge, Trevor Phillips, Frank Dobson, Patti Boulaye, Angie Le Mar, and Luther Blisset.

Henry is also a regular guest on other radio and television discussion programmes like Radio 5 Live's Late Night Live with Brian Hayes, and BBC2's Esther and Lowri. He has been a Mental Health Act Manager at the Maudsley Hospital since 1998, and his recent half hour television report on the mental health problems of Black British men won two media awards.