Tim Whewell is a radio and television journalist and

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Life

He grew up in Manchester, where his father Harry Whewell worked for the ''

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, Oxford, then trained at

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. He was Moscow Correspondent for the

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from 1990 to 1993. He first worked at the '' Sheffield Morning Telegraph'' from 1984, then the '' Sheffield Star''. In 1991, he broadcast live from the Russian parliament's

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, while it was under siege. His wife Rachel, who worked as his translator, was also in the building. He was foreign reporter for '' Newsnight'' for twelve years, until November 2013. His report on

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for

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's ''

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'' won the 2010 Best Radio Documentary One World Media Award.

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BBC biography
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