Public Appearances
Franks has featured regularly in the broadcast and print media in recent years. She is a regular contributor to topical and current affairs programmes with appearances on shows such as This Week, Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Loose Women, where she appeared along with Britt Ekland. She was also a guest on Newsnight in June 2010, discussing the expected cuts to public expenditure in the forthcoming UK budget with reference to Thatcher's economic policies in the 1980s.
She has also made various other television appearances. In November 2007, Franks was a contestant on the 7th series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, and contributed to the third series of Grumpy Old Women in the same year. She was a member of the 'Bizchicks' team of entrepreneurs who competed on the Eggheads quiz show in November 2008, alongside teammates including the former dragon, Rachel Elnaugh, Laura Tenison and Emma Harrison, in order to raise money for The Nema Foundation, a charity running projects to relieve child poverty in Mozambique.
In February 2009 she guested on the sixth series of the Channel 4 Programme, Come Dine with Me, with fellow diners Michelle Gayle, Chris Elisson and Raef Bjayou, and also appeared alongside guests including Ken Livingstone, Carol Decker and Toby Young on the BBC Two show, The Supersizers Eat..., the following June.
Franks has made regular and varied public speaking engagements, including at Oxford University in 2007 for International Women's Day, and at Glastonbury Festival in the same year. She delivered the 23rd HSBC Bank keynote lecture at Brunel University in November 2008, was on the judging panel for several enterprise award bodies including the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards and even performed a stand-up comedy routine at ITV's London Studios for International Women's Day 2009. She also continues to write a monthly column for 'Natural Health Magazine'.
In July 2011, Franks was awarded an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University in recognition of her career achievements in business and the media.
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