|
Newshour
''Newshour'' is BBC World Service's flagship international news and current affairs radio programme, which is broadcast twice daily: weekdays at 1400, weekends at 1300 and nightly at 2100 (UK time). Each edition lasts one hour. It consists of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, international interviews and in-depth reports of world news. The BBC World Service considers it one of their most important programmes. In 2011 it was kept as one of four key outlets, despite severe cutbacks. It is also broadcast in the United States on various American Public Media stations. The programme is broadcast live from Broadcasting House in London. It covers the major news of the day, often interviewing heads of state and government ministers. History The programme was first broadcast in 1988. Presenters Current On weekdays the 14:00 & 21:00 GMT editions are presented by different presenters where as on weekends they are presented by the same presenter Past * Owen Bennett-Jones * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Franks
Timothy Henry Franks (born 14 May 1968) is a British journalist and radio presenter who presents '' Newshour'', the flagship news and current affairs programme on BBC World Service radio. He also, from time to time, presents ''Hardtalk'' on BBC World News, and documentaries across BBC TV and radio. He was previously an award-winning foreign correspondent for the BBC. Early and personal life Franks was born in Moseley, Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Wadham College, Oxford University, where he graduated with a 2:1 (B.A.Hons) in Oriental Studies (Chinese). He is married, and has three children. Early career He joined the BBC in 1990, as a World Service Production Trainee, and spent five years as a producer, reporter and part-time presenter. In 1995, he was appointed World Service Political Reporter, based at Westminster, and then World Service Political Correspondent in 1997. He covered not just British politics but events in Northern Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Marshall (journalist)
Julian Marshall is a British journalist and radio broadcaster working for the BBC. Marshall is one of the main presenters of ''Newshour'' on the BBC World Service. Early life Marshall studied at University in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe and then later in Britain. Julian Marshall, BBC Newshour Career Marshall joined the in 1975,World Service Institutional, Julian Marshall. before joining the |
James Menendez
James Menendez is a British journalist and radio broadcaster working for BBC News, BBC World Service, and BBC World News. Menendez is one of the main presenters of '' Newshour'' on the BBC World Service. Career Menendez joined the BBC as a trainee reporter in 1995. He then became a reporter for the BBC World Service before becoming the BBC Correspondent in Venezuela. In 2004, Menendez moved back to London, as an occasional presenter on '' Newshour'' and '' The World Today''. In 2007, he became one of the main presenters of '' World Briefing'' before becoming a main presenter on ''Newshour''. In addition to presenting the programme, Menendez reports for ''Newshour'' from around the world. On 13 April 2015, he started presenting World News Today on BBC Four and BBC World News BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Lustig
Robin Francis Lustig (born 30 August 1948, London) is a British journalist and radio broadcaster, who has presented programmes for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4. Family Lustig was born in Stoke Newington, London, to Jewish refugees. Fritz, his father, who had fled from Germany in 1939, was in the intelligence corps and a clandestine listener to German prisoners of war. His mother, the former Susan Cohn, met his father at Wilton Park where they were both stationed during the second world war. "She did clerical work", the elder Lustig told ''The Jewish Chronicle'' in 2012, adding "women did not listen in – only men did". Lustig has recounted that his maternal grandmother was refused asylum in the UK, and was deported to Lithuania by the Nazis in 1941, where she was murdered by pro-Nazi partisans. Career After graduating in politics from the University of Sussex, Lustig became a foreign correspondent in Madrid for the London-based news agency Reuters. He later mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Coomarasamy
James Coomarasamy is a British presenter of the BBC Radio 4 evening programme ''The World Tonight'' and the flagship '' Newshour'' programme on the BBC World Service. Before joining ''Newshour'' in 2010, Coomarasamy spent a year presenting the now defunct programme '' Europe Today.'' Before becoming a presenter (announcer) he had been a BBC correspondent in Warsaw, followed by Paris, then Washington, D.C. Early life Coomarasamy was born in London to parents of English and Sri Lankan ancestry. He was educated at Christ's Hospital School, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), near Horsham, West Sussex, followed by the University of Cambridge, where he studied modern and medieval languages. He is fluent in French and Russian, and he speaks some Polish. Career Coomarasamy has worked primarily for the BBC. * 1991. Production assistant in the BBC Moscow bureau, after which he freelanced in Moscow as a reporter-producer * Producer for the BBC World in London * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Razia Iqbal
Razia Iqbal (born 1962) is a journalist employed by BBC News. She is a special correspondent, reporting for outlets across the BBC. From 2011 Iqbal has also presented ''Newshour'' on the BBC World Service. She has also presented ''Talking Books'' on the BBC News Channel. She was previously the corporation's arts correspondent. Early life Iqbal was born into a Punjabi family in Uganda, in 1962. Education Iqbal was educated at Garrett Green Comprehensive School in Tooting, South London, followed by the University of East Anglia, from which she graduated with a BA in American Studies in 1985. During her time at UEA she spent a year abroad at Trinity College, Connecticut. Life and career Iqbal is a former arts correspondent for BBC News, regularly appearing in news bulletins to report on arts related stories. She has also hosted the BBCs ''HARDtalk Extra'' programme, interviewing prominent figures from the arts including Sting and Jacqueline Wilson. In 2009, Iqbal applied fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Bolderson
Claire Bolderson is a former BBC journalist and radio broadcaster who presented ''The World Tonight'' for BBC Radio 4. Career Bolderson was born in London. After studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford and graduating with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Bolderson started broadcasting from Indonesia as a reporter for the BBC and the ''Financial Times''. Later, posted in Washington, Bolderson covered the 1996 US Election for the BBC World Service, then the Clinton impeachment. Later, Bolderson returned to London to present on the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4. She regularly presented ''The World Tonight'' from 1999 to 2009. She then concentrated on ''Newshour ''Newshour'' is BBC World Service's flagship international news and current affairs radio programme, which is broadcast twice daily: weekdays at 1400, weekends at 1300 and nightly at 2100 (UK time). Each edition lasts one hour. It consists of ...''. Bolderson left the BBC in 2012, presenting her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Bennett-Jones
Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance British journalist and a former host of ''Newshour'' on the BBC World Service. As a former BBC correspondent having been based in several countries, he also regularly reports from around the world. He currently hosts "The Future of..." on New Books Network. Education Bennett-Jones was educated at Canford School, in Dorset. He graduated from the London School of Economics. In 1983, he obtained his MPhil in politics from St Antony's College, Oxford. He also has a PhD from the University of Hull.Renowned print and broadcast journalist Dr Owen Bennet-Jones to lecture at Aberystwyth University ''Aberystwyth University'' Career Journalist Bennett-Jones h ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Pearson
Max Pearson (born 1959) is a BBC journalist and news presenter with the BBC World Service, best known as one of the presenters of '' The World Today'' and ''Newshour''. Career After completing post-graduate training in broadcast journalism, Pearson worked for the BBC in domestic radio. Since the 1980s, he worked as a frontline news presenter with the BBC World Service. Since 2014, Pearson has also presented ''The History Hour'', a weekly omnibus edition of the BBC World Service's daily history series ''Witness.'' Personal life Pearson is married with two children, and is an alumnus of Keele University. He was raised partly in Zambia. In March 2011, he suffered a cardiac arrest during a 14-hour flight from Singapore to Heathrow, London. The cabin crew allegedly refused to have the aircraft diverted when Pearson became ill shortly after it took off. Awards * Sony Radio Award The Radio Academy Awards, started in 1983, were the most prestigious awards in the British radio i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hearing
Roger Hearing is a journalist and former news presenter. Previously Hearing worked as a presenter on the BBC World Service and at Bloomberg Radio. Early life Hearing was born in London and brought up in west Dorset. Education Hearing was educated at Hardye's School, a state grammar school (now a comprehensive school and renamed The Thomas Hardye School), in the market town of Dorchester in Dorset; he then attended Downing College, Cambridge and City University London. Life and career Hearing's career in journalism began with the '' Birmingham Post''; he joined the BBC World Service in 1987. During the course of his career with the World Service, he has reported from such countries as Zambia, Iraq, Burma, Azerbaijan, India and Peru. Since 1999, he has presented '' The World Today'', '' Newshour'' and other World Service programmes. Hearing was also heard on BBC Radio 4 as a relief presenter on ''The World Tonight''. He has covered such important events as the civil wars in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Corinna Howard Sieghart (born 6 August 1961) is an England, English author, journalist, radio presenter and former assistant editor of ''The Times'', where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life in general. She has also written a weekly political column in ''The Independent''. Her best-selling book, ''The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It'', was published by Transworld/Doubleday in July 2021. On BBC Radio 4, she has been a presenter of ''Start the Week'' and has also presented ''Fallout'', ''Analysis'', ''Profile'', ''One to One'' and ''Beyond Westminster'', as well as many one-off documentaries. She is a visiting professor at King's College London and chaired the Social Market Foundation, an independent think tank, from 2010 to 2020. She has been a non-executive director of the Ofcom Content Board, a member of the Tate Modern Council, and is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Guardian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcasting, international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, British Government through the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Secretary's office. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on Analogue signal, analogue and Shortwave listening, digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, Satellite radio, satellite, Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, FM broadcasting, FM and Medium wave, MW relays. In 2015, the World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week (via TV, radio and online). In November 2016, the BBC announced that it would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo language, Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. "BBC World Servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
