Greg Lambert
Greg Lambert combines education reporting with a wider brief on community life, using specific local stories about schools, culture and public services to show how learning and opportunity play out day to day. He works as a broadcast and online news journalist, writer and presenter for Beyond Radio, and his coverage sits at the point where classrooms, creative projects, civic decisions and popular culture meet. His background as a broadcaster and author informs a direct, explanatory style, turning school initiatives and youth-focused stories into clear narratives that are easy to follow.
School projects and creative learning
Education stories are a consistent strand in Lambert’s work, centred on pupils, teachers and the programmes that shape what happens in the classroom. In a piece on pupils becoming “creative history detectives” to celebrate the life of an art pioneer, he focuses on how a project turns local heritage into an active learning experience, highlighting the way students engage with history through research and creative output rather than abstractions. In coverage of a school for “stars of stage and screen” opening new studios, he sets out how new facilities expand practical training and performance opportunities, framing the school’s development as an investment in skills and future careers.
Across these articles he keeps the emphasis on what changes for pupils and staff, spelling out the tangible benefits and context rather than relying on broad claims about education policy.
Lambert’s headlines and ledes in school coverage tend to foreground the initiative itself - a new programme, facility or approach - before moving to what it means for young people. The tone is factual and concise, but he regularly includes enough detail on courses, projects and outcomes to show how a particular school or scheme is different from a standard classroom experience. This makes his education pieces useful when a story involves concrete changes to provision, curriculum or learning environment, especially where there is a strong creative or vocational angle.
Education through culture and heritage
Lambert frequently uses cultural and heritage stories as a lens on education and public understanding.
He has reported on a museum exhibition that gives voice to victims of a notorious historical murder case, explaining how the display tells the story of two women whose lives were cut short and invites visitors to confront difficult history. In this kind of coverage he treats exhibitions as teaching tools for the wider public, showing how curation, narrative and artefacts work together to inform and provoke reflection. The same thread runs through features on arts and creative projects, where he highlights how cultural organisations and schools collaborate to bring history, performance and visual art into educational settings.
This approach means that heritage, crime and culture are not presented as standalone curiosities but as materials for learning.
By pointing to the stories exhibitions and projects choose to tell - and how they tell them - Lambert anchors culture reporting in the impact on audience knowledge and awareness. For stories that sit between arts, history and education, he is a natural fit, with coverage that treats museums, galleries and creative schemes as part of a broader educational ecosystem.
Public services, families and everyday impact
Beyond schools and culture, Lambert reports widely on public services and local decision-making, often with an implicit link to how families and young people are affected. His pieces include coverage of police operations that result in multiple arrests and a drop in street drinking offences, set out in straightforward terms that show the scale of enforcement and the immediate impact on community safety. He has written about proposals to raise the town’s share of council tax, breaking down percentage changes and pound amounts per property band so residents can see exactly what they would pay.
In business and infrastructure reporting, such as stories on a nuclear power station becoming the most productive in the country or reactors returning to service with associated economic benefits, he explains complex operations and figures in plain language focused on local economic consequences.
Lambert also covers policy shifts with social implications, such as a county council stepping back from co-ordinating refugee resettlement schemes and transferring responsibilities through a managed process with a clear end date. In features on large families returning with new series of a reality TV show, he connects popular entertainment with questions of everyday life, housing, work and childcare.
Across these subjects his reporting style is consistent: he lays out decisions, timelines and impacts in clear, neutral prose, which makes his work relevant when a story involves public bodies, budgets or services that intersect with schools and households.
Sport, entertainment and aspiration
Sport and entertainment form another significant strand of Lambert’s output, often framed around personal stories and local identity.
He has covered a shirt stunt at a football club backing a takeover bid involving high-profile names, using the episode to illustrate fan sentiment and the business side of modern sport. In a story on a footballer undergoing corrective heart surgery after being diagnosed with a mild, benign cardiac arrhythmia, he focuses on the medical details and the implications for the player’s career, combining health information with sports news. Business coverage such as the sale of a chain of UK stores and the planned renaming of a local branch is handled similarly, with attention to branding, ownership and what changes for shoppers.
Lambert’s long engagement with professional wrestling further shapes his perspective on sport and performance. He has written three books on the revival of British wrestling and its boom years, and his work includes hosting a dedicated wrestling podcast as well as presenting regular radio shows on Beyond Radio. This background feeds into his ability to tell stories about ambition, resilience and entertainment industries, whether in the ring, on the pitch or on television.
For narratives that blend youth aspiration, training, sport and media, his mix of education coverage and sports and entertainment reporting provides a broad, experience-based frame.
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