Becky Southworth Explained

Rebecca "Becky" Southworth is a British journalist and television presenter.

She has authored several documentary films for the BBC as well as working as a producer on a number of other programmes and channels such as ITV 2 "Social Media Murders", BBC 2 "The Mormons are Coming" and BBC iplayer "Gambling: A Game of Life and Death".

In 2017, Becky won a Royal Television Society award for her debut documentary ‘Kicked Out: From Care To Chaos’.[1] [2]

Her second documentary 'Can Sex Offenders Change?' was released in 2020. It was well received,[3] and was shortlisted for a 2021 Grierson Award.[4]

Recently, Becky has narrated BBCThree Series 3 “Tagged: Women on Tag” 2021 which follows young women on Tag and the struggles they face. She has then gone on to narrate the latest 4th series “Tagged: We’re Watching You” in 2023.

In January 2022, Becky was named as one of BIG ISSUE’S 100 change makers 2022 ranking 12 in a lineup of inspirational people and charities as a tribute to the documentaries she has made tackling societal issues.

In August 2022, Becky narrated Channel 5’s HMP Styal: Women behind bars.

From 2023, Becky starting reporting on Sunday Morning Live https://www.tiktok.com/@beckysouthworth/video/7186341842143726853 as well as producing and narrating "The Mormons Are Coming" for BBC2.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Care Leaver Wins Top Industry Award for Documentary.
  2. Web site: Kicked Out: From Care to Chaos.
  3. Web site: Can Sex Offenders Change Review. .
  4. Web site: Grierson Awards nominations. 18 December 2021. 21 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191021212802/https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/the-grierson-awards/nominations/#awards1. dead.