Anne Marie McAleeseworked in the press office at the Lyric Theatre before joining the press office at the BBC in 1989. She went on to become a reporter for a number BBC programmes before becoming the presenter of Your Place and Minein 1991. She still hosts the programme. For the last ten years Dot Blakely has had a regular slot onYour Place and Mineand together Anne Marie and Dot have been to hundreds of places in Tyrone, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Antrim and Londonderry to seek out the birds of Ulster in their natural habitat. Dot has demonstrated how to hand-feed the birds, how to identify them by sight and sound and provided incredible insights into how birds think and why they behave as they do. Anne Marie continues to be an enthusiastic birding beginner and peppers their unique conversations with weird and wonderful facts about the places they visit.