https://www.colleenlharris.co.uk/blog daily 0.75 2018-10-06 https://www.colleenlharris.co.uk/work daily 0.75 2013-08-30 https://www.colleenlharris.co.uk/tv-digital-reports daily 0.75 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1538865227468-3TCYFS8IXS4ISMZWG39B/coventrywins.PNG TV and Digital https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1538866456659-RGBPL59GL8FL6MU2VZPE/teddy.PNG TV and Digital https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1538868265170-BGJFN2W2PUNVBO7IFOOF/image-asset.jpeg TV and Digital - The Rise of Grime feat. Lady Leshurr - BBC News at Six and Ten Grime is a unique blend of musical influences - it's said to be bold and British - and its popularity is driven by social media. It started in East London around 15 years ago but it's achieved much greater prominence in recent years. Colleen Harris reports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1538870314896-0RUDV06R08PUPSNG03MI/image-asset.jpeg TV and Digital - BRIT School turns 25 - BBC News at Ten It's the school known for launching the careers of some of our biggest names in music and film - Adele, Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis and the new Spider-man actor Tom Holland. Inspired by the 1980s film Fame, the BRIT School in south London is celebrating 25 years since it first opened its doors. Our correspondent Colleen Harris has this report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1538933330451-T4G4SDWYLMH29ADJWFXI/women+in+music.PNG TV and Digital https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1538933893591-UAZDFM1VN5XZQ9AKD2SL/model+agnes.PNG TV and Digital https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1538934709974-OWLGV54AB18X45BI9YGP/muslim+hiphop.PNG TV and Digital - Muslim duo mix faith and hip-hop - BBC News at Six The number of black Muslims in Britain has more than doubled in the past decade with nearly 300,000 living in the UK - many are converts. At a time when Muslim extremism often dominates the headlines, some Muslim musicians are turning to hip hop to express their views on stereotypes and stigma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1538935505720-Q8C7XDQMEOCXOUQTS811/global+pulse+fashion.PNG TV and Digital - Global Pulse: Fashion - BBC World News Global Pulse introduces Steve J and Yoni P, designers bringing contemporary South Korean fashion to the world stage. Moving on to London they'll be visiting Savile Row to meet bespoke suit makers from Davies and Son, Spencer Hart and House of Hardy Amies. In Buenos Aires they'll be going to Prana to find out more about cutting edge Argentinian hair design and styling, while in Dubai they'll meet fashion designer Essa Walla who doesn't follow any rules and thinks that above all, fashion should be exciting and fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1539505186641-6K0BY3DABP0RF279KEG6/Coxsone+side.PNG TV and Digital https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1540555997503-BKKE1VO04O9EJY2DM9QF/showreel+image+1.PNG TV and Digital https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1540565676768-TTTSRX0OVC1AT53SOLPF/lauramvula.PNG TV and Digital - Laura Mvula talks MOBO, DEPRESSION AND TRUTH - BBC News at Six and Ten The Music of Black Origin awards or MOBOs take place in Glasgow tomorrow night. They celebrate musical talent in genres like Soul, Jazz and R&B. Leading the female nominations this year is Laura Mm-vula - a soul singer and CLASSICALLY trained pianist from Birmingham. She's been speaking to Colleen Harris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1540566123003-D3JC6P3Z1G0UDCV0Z3FC/coventryneville.PNG TV and Digital https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1570229209665-3ICDBRZ1E9XV7E3BPMU7/IMG_0344.jpg TV and Digital - WINDRUSH SCANDAL: victims snubbed. One of the victims of the Windrush scandal has exclusively told the BBC Victoria Derbyshire Programme that the Home Secretary is a ‘coward hiding in his ivory tower’ - after she was snubbed from a Windrush event today - the day the government announces how much compensation those caught up in the controversy will receive. 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Jean Driscoll, from Chelmsford in Essex, says doctors have been unable to diagnose her condition. In her first ever interview, she’s been describing to Colleen Harris what it’s like to live with. 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Showreel 2018 Colleen Harris presents…. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/5bba64db104c7b817527aca8/5bba64fca6525a811c1c7965/1538942193752/ Showreel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1606410032527-F5RJCCWCG7K85EUCBXUL/image-asset.jpeg Showreel - Colleen Harris Live Presenter and Reporter Showreel 2020 https://www.colleenlharris.co.uk/mobo-winner daily 0.75 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1539036921463-1GTAWQ2KSA5DEM8D9BD3/brit+amoye.JPG MOBO Winner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1539035948864-GREECING9R4CFLBS8OVQ/amoye+cover.JPG MOBO Winner - READ: What's it like to win a MOBO? This time next year will be 20 years since we took home our MOBO, and 23 years since the MOBO Awards started. It’s one of many highlights in my career, long before moving into TV - but a journey not many people know about. So I wrote about it here; a few memories of the night… Someone from the MOBO team came to get us. We were needed at the side of the stage, as were the other nominees. They were going to announce the winner next, so we had to be ready. This COULD be our moment! Then we stood up from our seats, and I heard someone holla, “Go get ‘em girls!” Lo and behold… it was the veteran Newsreader Moira Stewart sat behind us, pump-fisting the air with good wishes. Thanks Moira! We took home Diesel Best Unsigned Act that night, four females with stars in our eyes, hungry for success. Our image was a little bit street, rough-round-the-edge R’n’B chicks. Backstage with our MOBO in hand, in the mele of press runs, we came face-to-face with the hottest girl group of the moment - Letoya, Latavia, Kelly and Beyonce: “Congraaatulaaations” in their thick southern drawl, checking us out head to toe. Till this day I’m convinced they saw us as a poundland version of themselves haha. Hey… I’ll take it! I loved Destiny’s Child. I still do. They’d just collected their ‘Best International R&B’ MOBO and were role models for girls like me. The message and confidence they carried even then was empowering, it’s amazing to have shared the same stage. But it was Des’ree that blew me away, I was a superfan and fell in awe as I caught a glimpse of her talking to reporters. As strange as this might sound, that night was like being welcomed into a new family. Chris Eubank came over to congratulate us and share his advice on how to handle it from here on out. We were far from ‘celebrities’ but the moment was a first taste of the doors an award like MOBO can open. Fast forward a year and we had a manager (Kwame Kwaten of D’Influence) and were signing a contract with Warner LIVE on the ITV lunchtime News. It was a whirlwind ride - appearances on Channel 4’s Flava series, recording songs with Glamma Kid (‘Bills 2 Pay’) and Sid Owen (Rickaaaay from Eastenders). We were flown out to Las Vegas for the MOBO 2000 launch where Radio 1 DJ Trevor Nelson - who was hosting with TLC’s Lisa ‘Left-Eye’ Lopez - invited us out to party. Amazing!!! But it sounds more exciting than it was. At 17 years old - and the youngest of the group - I couldn’t get into a Las Vegas club. Gutted haha! …So what was it like to win a MOBO? It was fun and fleeting. An amazing experience. It’s something I rarely speak about because it was so long ago, but everything comes full circle right? It’s almost 20 years but I really began to reflect after a chat with Lady Leshurr while filming her for a grime piece I did for the BBC Six o’clock News. “You’ve got a MOBO? Wow that’s big,” she said. “Every grime artist wants a MOBO. You ask any of them, they’ll tell you.” A few months later, it was Ms Leshurr that went on to win Best Female Act! To think - a small start-up launched in the bedroom of MOBO founder Kanya King, who’s been awarded a CBE, has grown into such a culturally relevant platform for international and homegrown talent - honouring the likes of Destiny’s Child, Stormzy and Skepta. And I have my own tucked away at home. So last year, I chuckled to see my name on a seat next to Ms King at a fundraising gala for Girls-I-Rate, an organisation that champions women in the creative industries, founded by Carla-Marie Williams, the British songwriter of Beyonce’s Freedom and Runnin’ (Lose It All). How funny! Things really do come in full circle, and I’m as passionate about music and arts as I was 20 years ago - that’s evident in the people I interview today for the RTS award-winning BBC Six and Ten o’clock News; John Boyega, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Lily Allen, Carla-Marie Williams, Lady Leshurr, Imogen Heap, Teddy Sinclair and Don Letts. Evidently we didn’t become the next Destiny’s Child. As so often happens with bands, very few make it to the top and a vast majority - back in those days - would never see the light of day. This is long before social media changed the game. Who needs a record label nowadays? Today I feel blessed to still be working in the creative industry as a Presenter, Reporter and Host. Away from work, I’ll spend days and weekends on guitar and songwriting retreats. 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The year long celebration of arts, music and culture, has boosted local economies, proving a huge success for the current holder, Hull. In the fourth of five profiles, BBC News at Six and Ten looks at the city of Sunderland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1540126514787-7TVWVT91033M8FPZSCR1/swansea+2.PNG Executive Producer - SWANSEA - shortlisted for U.K. City of Culture Executive Producer: Colleen Harris | Correspondent: Sian Lloyd Coventry, Paisley, Stoke, Sunderland and Swansea, are all competing for the title of UK City of Culture 2021, with the winner to be announced this week. The year long celebration of arts, music and culture, has boosted local economies, proving a huge success for the current holder, Hull. In the last of five profiles, BBC News at Six and Ten looks at the city of Swansea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb9043c94d71a8aed6fa783/1540127332115-FMC74Z1I3BPJC6QQ1VXP/image-asset.jpeg Executive Producer - Coventry: Ghost town to 'Host' town. Coventry’s been named as the next UK City of Culture for 2021 - beating Paisley, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland and Swansea to the title. The people leading Coventry’s bid say winning will have a huge economic impact not just on Coventry but also on the West Midlands. 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