In her radio career she has presented frontline shows for stations including Radio 1, Radio 2, LBC, BBC London, BFBS, Capital Fm, BBC WM, Magic 105.4, BRMB and Heart Fm. Currently heard on Smooth Radio in the West Midlands presenting a Sunday morning show and providing cover for the Breakfast Show; she’s equally at home presenting speech and music programmes.

Charlie has a dynamic stage presence and hosted the National CIPR awards at the Birmingham Town Hall, and hosted the Princes Trust Celebrate Success Awards. She's presented awards at 'Style Birmingham' and at the Muslim Writers Awards with Jermaine Jackson. At the NEC, she has hosted the Experts stages at the Good Food Show with James Martin and at the Clothes Show, where Gok Wan ‘rearranged her bangers’….

At Merry Hill she has compared seasonal fashion and shopping events and the Christmas Lights switch on with Jason Donovan.

As a Poet, Charlie is completing her residency at WBA Football Club in January 2010. This has been part of the www.myplaceoryours.org.uk national project with Apples and Snakes, and has included a live show at the Big Chill festival and Charlie's first night in a tent since she was 7yrs old...  In January 2010 the WBA material will be fully launched as the club continue their goal studded bid for promotion. Charlie has appeared on BBC1 in her WBA shirt delivering freshly scribed football chants next to a Wolves fan, who joined in. Such is the power of poetry:)

Charlie was commissioned for Radio 2's arts show to write a piece to celebrate Carol Ann Duffy's appointment as Poet Laureate. It involved a reference to an avocado, and will be available online in the New Year.

Charlie is the Lit-Up Associate Artist for the West Midlands, working with MAC as the venue. She's been commissioned to write her first full show, 'Buddhism and Ben Jerrys' which will be showcased at the Bristol Old Vic in February 2010 alongside Steve Tasane and Maxwell Golden.

Since being Birmingham Poet Laureate 2007-2008 Charlie has worked in schools to lift poems off the page and engage pupils with live performance poetry. She runs inspired workshops where young people write and perform their own poems in ‘Poetry Slams’, where even non-traditional learners become more confident with words and literacy.