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==Career==

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Millican began her broadcasting career at [[BBC Radio Cumbria]] in 2016, presenting various programmes on the station including weekend breakfast, afternoons and evening programmes alongside covering mid mornings. In 2023, Millican left her regular presenting duties due to [[BBC Local Radio]] cuts though she later returned to cover programmes.<ref name=”Cumbria Crack – Radio Merseyside presenters”>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio Cumbria presenters say farewell this weekend|date=24 November 2023|url=https://cumbriacrack.com/2023/11/24/bbc-radio-cumbria-presenters-say-farewell-this-weekend/|publisher=Cumbria Crack |accessdate=2023-11-24}}</ref> Millican later joined [[BBC Radio 4]] to report for [[Farming Today]] and On Your Farm. In June 2025, Millican presented and produced On Your Farm, in which she visited a farm in [[Cumbria]], where the Robinson family and their cows celebrated 150 years of farming history by looking to a nature-friendly future.<ref name=”BBC Radio 4 – 150 Not Out – The Robinsons of Strickley”>{{cite web |title=150 Not Out – The Robinsons of Strickley|date=15 June 2025|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dkyw|publisher=[[BBC Four]] |accessdate=2025-06-15}}</ref>

Millican began her broadcasting career at [[BBC Radio Cumbria]] in 2016, presenting various programmes on the station including weekend breakfast, afternoons and evening programmes alongside covering mid mornings. In 2023, Millican left her regular presenting duties due to [[BBC Local Radio]] cuts though she later returned to cover programmes.<ref name=”Cumbria Crack – Radio Merseyside presenters”>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio Cumbria presenters say farewell this weekend|date=24 November 2023|url=https://cumbriacrack.com/2023/11/24/bbc-radio-cumbria-presenters-say-farewell-this-weekend/|publisher=Cumbria Crack |accessdate=2023-11-24}}</ref> Millican later joined [[BBC Radio 4]] to report for [[Farming Today]] and On Your Farm.<ref name=”BBC Radio 4 – 150 Not Out – The Robinsons of Strickley”>{{cite web |title=150 Not Out – The Robinsons of Strickley|date=15 June 2025|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dkyw|publisher=[[BBC Four]] |accessdate=2025-06-15}}</ref>


Latest revision as of 01:09, 20 December 2025

British radio presenter

Helen Millican

Born

Helen Millican

Career
Show Farming Today, On Your Farm
Station BBC Radio 4
Style Radio presenter
Country United Kingdom

Helen Millican is a British radio presenter, producer and reporter from Cumbria England.[1] She is best known for presenting BBC Radio 4‘s Farming Today, On Your Farm and programmes for BBC Radio Cumbria.

Millican studied at the University of Oxford, achieving a first class Bachelor of Arts, Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. Millican later Studied French and German (joint honours), spent one academic year in Germany with extended periods working in France.

Millican began her broadcasting career at BBC Radio Cumbria in 2016, presenting various programmes on the station including weekend breakfast, afternoons and evening programmes alongside covering mid mornings. In 2023, Millican left her regular presenting duties due to BBC Local Radio cuts though she later returned to cover programmes.[2] Millican later joined BBC Radio 4 to report for Farming Today and On Your Farm.[3]

Alongside her broadcasting and reporting work, Millican worked as the narrator for a BBC Four and BBC iPlayer documentary ‘Cumbria’s Red Squirrels’.[4]

Millican often hosts book events across Cumbria, interviewing the authors such as James Rebanks and McCall Smiths to large crowds.[5]

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