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Michael Peschardt is a journalist and broadcaster for
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Early life

Educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood,
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and the
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he joined the
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as a network reporter from 1983.


BBC career

After covering the
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cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
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win in Australia in 1986/87, and the America's Cup; he decided to try living there for a year, and has been there ever since. He is the
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's Sydney correspondent, covering a range of stories from Australia and
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for the
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UK-based TV and Radio services, including
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and
BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broad ...
as well as the international channel
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 government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and ...
. Peschardt also hosts
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's programme ''
Peschardt's People ''Peschardt's People'' is a documentary television series, hosted by Michael Peschardt, that premiered on BBC World on 1 April 2006. In the series, Peschardt interviews famous and not so famous personalities from the Asia-Pacific region. In orde ...
,'' which profiles well-known personalities in the Asia-Pacific. Interviewees have included
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.Launch of Peschardt's People
BBC Press Office - April 2006 As well as this, he occasionally returns to the UK to fill in for absent presenters on
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's morning news programme BBC Breakfast. He also presented the BBC coverage of the
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from
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.


ABC work

Peschardt guest-presented the ''Mornings'' show on the
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's
702 ABC Sydney ABC Radio Sydney (official call sign: 2BL, formerly 2SB) is an ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 702 kHz on the AM dial. The station transmits with a power ( C ...
for summer 2008/09, in place of Deborah Cameron.ABC Sydney - Michael Peschardt
/ref> Peschardt's voice was used for one of ABC Local Radio's Ashes coverage stings during the Ashes 2009.


References


External links

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Bio at BBC Breakfast
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peschardt, Michael Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC World News Australian television presenters Australian journalists British expatriates in Australia