Sarah Tucker is an editor, broadcaster, author, columnist, lecturer and academic lead with the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW).
As a broadcaster, Sarah has won several awards including the BGTW best radio programmes in 1996, 1998 and 1999, as well as the best TV report award in 1999. She has also produced award winning reports on tracing the gold rush from Skagway Alaska to Dawon City for the Discovery Channel in 1999, ViaRail trip across Canada for Classic FM, the inaugural Celtic Colours festival in 1996 and for an exclusive interview with Kiri Te Kanaway, Opera in the Outback for Classic FM in 1997. In addition, she has won a number of Sony Broadcast Awards for a range of outlets across TV and radio.
Sarah is the author of nine best-selling fictional novels bringing awareness to emotional abuse in the playground, including the 2006 novel The Playground Mafia which was runner-up to Sebastian Faulk’s Birdsong in the Good Housekeeping Novel of the Year.
Sarah devised, produced and presented the highly acclaimed travel series on Sky TV, Who’s been sleeping in my bad and sourced exclusive interviews with Sir David Frost, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Anita Roddick and Dai Llewellyn in a series that, in the pre-Hello and OK! magazine era, was ground breaking in that it opened up celebrity lifestyles to the wider public
In publishing, Sarah is the author of the authorised biography of Edward de Bono Love Laterally which was published in September 2024. After a chance meeting with de Bono in Malta 12 years earlier, the imminent physician invited Sara to write his biography with the first-time full cooperatino of his family, friends and colleagues which included a range of famous voices including HRH Prince Phillip, Sir Tony Blair, Annie Lennox and Baroness Helena Kennedy who wrote the introduction.
In addition to her creative work, Sarah is a lecturer, Changemaker Ambassador, a school speaker, a workshop leader and a corporate speaker. In what little spare time she has left, she is an avid yoga and meditation instructor.