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EDUCATION:
First class BA (Hons) in English Literature,
Wadham College, University of Oxford.
Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism.
NCTJ-trained |
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Presenter and
Journalist |
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CREDITS INCLUDE: |
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EXPLORE x 1
hour
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Presenter
across series – screened in Jan/Feb 2009
– BBC2 |
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EXPLORE x
30 mins |
Reporter,
current affairs investigation, BBC2 |
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UNREPORTED
WORLD: PARAGUAY |
Reporter,
environmental investigation, CH4 |
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MTV |
Presenter,
short film on arts, MTV |
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THIS WORLD |
Reporter,
investigation, BBC2 |
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CROSSING
CONTINENTS |
Reporter
and producer, for R4 |
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ASSIGNMENT |
Reporter,
investigation, World Service |
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FIVE LIVE
REPORT |
Reporter,
domestic investigation, R5 Live |
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Tanya is a
broadcaster who specialises in foreign-based
current affairs programmes and documentaries.
She has a lively engaging manner and is not
afraid of asking difficult questions when the
situation demands it. Occasionally, this has
landed her into trouble. A former Indian Cabinet
Minister became enraged with her when she
interrogated him on his government’s
relationship with a controversial holy man.
At the same time, Tanya displays a natural
empathy and warmth towards people, which allows
interviewees to open up to her on often deeply
sensitive issues. She has drawn out compelling
testimony from sexual abuse victims, relatives
of Argentina’s Disappeared and British families
expressing racial prejudice.
Recently, Tanya was one of a team of presenters
on BBC2’s brand new travel and current affairs
series, ‘Explore’. This strand gave her the
opportunity to reveal more of her personality to
viewers, which she enjoyed. In one scene, she
chewed a hallucinogenic plant to test its
effects and hilariously became very affected.
Tanya has a relaxed friendly manner while still
taking care not to lose sight of her goal. She
is naturally expressive but can also maintain
her calm in chaotic situations.
During her seven years at Radio 4’s foreign
current affairs department, Tanya travelled
undercover into a remote corner of India to
interview heavily armed rebels, completing the
last leg of the journey by kayak. She also
challenged an armed Thai fisherman who was
accused of torturing his illegal Burmese
sailors. And on the Ethiopian border, she
interviewed Eritrean refugees about harrowing
claims of torture in prison.
Her reports have often been hard-hitting.
Tanya’s investigation of claims of sexual abuse
and murder against India’s most powerful Godman,
Sai Baba, caused a parliamentary enquiry in the
Mauritius when it screened and widespread
protests around the world from Canada to
Australia. In turn, her exploration of
inter-ethnic racism between Britain’s black and
Asian communities became a breaking news story
after UK newspapers picked up on it.
Due to her British Asian background, Tanya is
also drawn to cultural issues and is also
interested in women’s issues.
Tanya started out in journalism on an Indian
newspaper aimed at British Asians. In 1996, she
won the Scott Trust Bursary to study journalism
at City University and went on to become an ITN
News Trainee.
In 2000, she joined BBC Radio 4’s Current
Affairs department and began producing foreign
current documentaries before moving on to
reporting them. She also reported on BBC2’s
foreign affairs strand, This World. Since 2007,
Tanya has been freelance and has reported for
both Channel 4 and MTV. |
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For further information
please contact
Sara Cameron on 020 7209 3777 |
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