Gaynor is a freelance radio and television producer and consultant and trainer on presentation and the press and broadcast media.
She spent 25 years working for the BBC as a Radio 4 presenter and as an award-winning producer of television and radio programmes. As Executive Producer of Entertainment and Features in Manchester, she was responsible for a wide range of popular, widely acclaimed series, including A Question of Sport, Great Railway Journeys, The Travel Show, Comedy Box, Funny Women, Abigail`s Party Theme Night, and all of Manchester’s` Network Radio output including the Radio One Roadshow, The Mark Radcliffe Show, Woman’s` Hour, The Message and 5 Live Sport.
Before coming to Manchester, she was the first Managing Editor of Radio 5, responsible for launching the station on air. Before this she spent four years as Head of Radio Wales, where she was editorially responsible for all of the network’s programme output.
She has also presented various radio programmes including “Catchphrase” for Radio Wales and The Shopping Basket and Early Years at School for Radio 4.
While at the BBC Gaynor was sent to South Africa post apartheid with Ernest Rea to train black presenters for SABC.
She has written various reports for the Home Office, including, “Reporting Diversity: how journalists can contribute to community cohesion”, and, with Salford University, on why so few BME students apply for jobs in the print and broadcast media in the North West of England.