Robin Denselow is a British writer, journalist, and broadcaster.

Education

Denselow was educated at

Leighton Park School Leighton Park School is a co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils in Reading in South East England. The school's ethos is closely tied to the Quaker values, having been founded as a Quaker School in 1890. The school's ...

, a boys'

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boarding

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(now co-educational) in

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, followed by

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at ...

, where he studied English.

Life and career

After a student-trip to India with COMEX, the Commonwealth Expedition in 1965, Denselow first joined the BBC African Service as a producer and reporter working on current affairs programmes. In 1980, when

BBC Two BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream a ...

's flagship news programme ''

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'' started, he became a reporter for them. Denselow has reported from all over the world but with a particular interest in Africa, South America and the Middle East. His report on

Gulf War syndrome Gulf War syndrome or Gulf War illness is a chronic and multi-symptomatic disorder affecting military veterans of both sides of the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War. A wide range of acute and chronic symptoms have been linked to it, including fatigue ...

in 1993 won the International TV Programming Award at the

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. As well as reporting on current affairs, Denselow has written extensively on world music and

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has ...

for ''

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'' newspaper and other publications. By 1989, he was also covering rock/pop reviews for the paper.Denselow, Robin Glasgow, ''Texas: Rock/Pop'', ''

'', 17 March 1989. In the 1980s, he chaired the music discussion programme ''Eight Days a Week''. His book ''When the Music's Over: the Story of Political Pop'' was published by

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in 1989.

References

External links

''Guardian'' profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Denselow, Robin 1940s births Living people English male writers English male journalists Alumni of New College, Oxford BBC people People educated at Leighton Park School The Guardian people Year of birth missing (living people)