Monthly meeting - October 2026

Jenny Binsted is a highly experienced makeup designer and Head of Makeup for BBC News and Current Affairs with an impressive career spanning over 50 years. She is also a member of Barnes WI.

She began her training with the BBC working on programmes such as I Claudius, Dad’s Army and the Two Ronnies  before moving to London Weekend Television where she worked at the South Bank meeting the stars whilst working on programmes you might well remember and developing her skills as a designer.  Jenny returned to the BBC where she created a company that won the tenders for BBC Makeup News and Current affairs where her work took her behind the scenes of some of the nations most watched news items, including the Olympics, Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s Wedding, the funerals of the Dalai Lama, Diana, Princess of Wales and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth. Over the years she has worked with many familiar television faces as well as celebrities, members of the Royal family and heads of state including our Prime Ministers.

With a lifetime of fascinating experiences from both television and film, in the studio and on location, Jenny offers a wonderful glimpse into the world behind the camera creating  characters and presenting familiar faces to become camera ready.