By Jonathan Samuels, Australia Correspondent
One of the Australian DJs at the heart of the royal hoax phone call scandal has told a UK radio conference she would like to work on the airwaves in Britain.
Mel Greig appeared at Radio Festival 2014 in Manchester where she told delegates that making a speech at her engagement party had made her realise she was ready to return to radio.
"When I held that microphone I realised I did want to return to media," the DJ said.
"When I held it and felt so comfortable that's when I thought 'No, this is what I've always known, this is what I've done, it's such a powerful medium to get our messages across, I don't want to give this up'."
Asked if she would move to the UK, the DJ replied: "It's beautiful here so, absolutely, I'd love to move here if the opportunity came up."
Greig apologised for her role in the incident at the inquest of nurse Jacintha Saldanha last month, and told the conference of her horror and disgust at the part she played in the prank.
"I was disgusted with myself, that I'd played a part in this poor woman's suicide, it was very hard to deal with."
Greig added: "It was horrific. And at the time I felt that I deserved it, people were saying you deserve to die and I honestly thought I do deserve to die.
"I had failed as a human being - someone has taken their own life because of something I was involved in."
In 2012 Greig and co-host Michael Christian called the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge for acute morning sickness posing as the Queen and Prince Charles.
Jacintha Saldanha, who transferred the call to another nurse on the Duchess's ward, was found dead a few days later.
Ms Greig subsequently suffered from depression.
She said broadcasting wasn't a job but a passion and she'd be a wiser presenter after a tough two years on the sidelines.
She has a regular slot on breakfast TV in Australia but otherwise is "being patient with it and hoping the right opportunity comes up".
Critics accuse the DJ of playing the victim to rebuild her own career - but the Australian insists that's not the case.
"We need to see what we can learn from a tragic situation," the 32-year-old said.
"I'm hoping that even if one person walks out of this room and it changes their mindset the next time they go to do something that might affect someone, then my job is done."
She also talked about going to hospital for major surgery for endometriosis, a fertility condition, and said: "I was convinced that that was my karma. That I took a mother, and now I don't deserve to be a mother."
A two-day inquest at the High Court heard Mrs Saldanha held herself responsible for the mistake, despite the private hospital's management supporting her and the other nurse as victims of a cruel joke.
Michael Christian has returned to the airwaves on Australian radio.
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