Description: Helena Merriman is an award-winning presenter, author, and journalist. She is the creator of the hit BBC podcast Tunnel 29.
​Helena Merriman is an award-winning journalist, author and podcaster.
She’s the creator of three original podcasts – The Inquiry, Tunnel 29 and Room 5, which have had over 30 million downloads.
Helena wrote, produced and presented Tunnel 29 – the BBC podcast series about a group of students who dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in 1962. It’s one of the BBC’s most successful podcasts, listed by The New Yorker as one of their top five podcasts of 2019.