Biographies

BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 presenter

Robin Lustig has been presenting Newshour on BBC World Service and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 since 1989.

He has reported on many major world events, including the reunification of Germany, the end of the Soviet Union, the death of Princess Diana, the handover of Hong Kong to China, and the attacks on the United States in September 2001.

He has also anchored every British election night programme for the World Service since 1997, and has reported on elections from countries as far apart as Iran, Israel, Nigeria, Pakistan and Zimbabwe.

In 1999 he wrote and presented a 60-minute documentary on Aids in Africa, which was broadcast on both the World Service and Radio 4.

In 2003, in the immediate aftermath of the Iraq war, he anchored a special programme, The World After the War, which was also broadcast simultaneously on both networks.

In 2005 he made a series of documentaries for the World Service called Looking For Democracy, in which he reported from California, Cambodia, Ukraine, Bahrain and Uganda.

The following year he made another documentary series called Generation Next in which he reported on the attitudes and experiences of young people in Ghana, India, the UK and the US.

He also presented from its launch in 1998 until 2006 the award-winning internet-based global phone-in programme Talking Point, which was broadcast simultaneously on BBC World Service radio, BBC World television and on the internet.

Among the world leaders he has interviewed are Nelson Mandela, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Tony Blair.

In 1998, he won a Sony Silver award as Talk/News Broadcaster of the Year.