Martha began her career at LBC/IRN Radio, where she worked as a phone operator and a news information researcher, a reporter, a presenter and a lobby correspondent before spending a year on A Week in Politics for Channel 4. She has since gone on to be a reporter or presenter on Woman’s Hour, The World at One, The Today programme and PM on Radio Four and Newsnight Review and Newsnight (where she became political editor) on BBC2. Martha was nominated for a BAFTA award for her coverage of the Northern Ireland Peace Process in 1998. She was (with Jenni Murray) 2004 TRIC Radio Presenter of the Year and won a Sony Bronze Award for a special on child poverty.