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 Isabel Hilton Isabel Hilton is a regular presenter on Radio 3’s flagship arts programme, Night Waves. Isabel is an expert in Chinese affairs, having gained an MA in Chinese, at Edinburgh University; scholarships at the Peking Languages Institute and Fudan University, Shanghai. She has also undertaken postgraduate work on 20th century Chinese literature at Edinburgh. Isabel’s professional career began in 1976 when she joined Scottish Television as a reporter. A year later she moved into print journalism as a feature writer for the Daily Express. Then in 1977 joined the Sunday Times as a feature writer. Subsequent posts included: News Reporter; Insight Reporter; Special Correspondent, China; Latin America Editor; Assistant Foreign Editor. Isabel covered a wide range of Home and Foreign Affairs. Her foreign assignments were in the United States, France, Spain, the Middle East, Japan, China, Hong Kong. She covered the Falklands War from Buenos Aires, and subsequently reported extensively from Central and South America. In 1986 Isabel Hilton joined The Independent newspaper, pre-launch, as Latin America Editor. She set up and ran the network of correspondents and stringers in Latin America and the Caribbean, she also reported extensively from the region for the daily and Sunday newspaper, the Saturday Magazine and the Sunday Review. Subsequent posts included European Affairs Editor, from 1989, covering the end of the Cold War, and the subsequent elections in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as overseeing the coverage of Western Europe, including the European Community in the run up to 1992. From 1991, Isabel was made Chief Feature writer, with a wide brief involving writing leaders, book reviews, profiles, magazine, review and feature articles for the daily and Sunday newspapers. Isabel left the Independent in 1995 to write a book on China and Tibet. Isabel presented Radio 4’s The World Tonight (1995-1998) and joined Radio 3’s Night Waves (Monday to Friday, usually at 9.30pm) as one of its presenters in 1999. Since 1997 Isabel has also been a columnist for The Guardian and is a regular contributor to various publications, including the New Yorker, New Statesman, Time, New York Times Magazine, Literary Review, Financial Times, The Independent, The Observer and The Economist. Her books include The Search For The Panchen Lama for Viking Penguin, published in September, 1999. It featured in the Books of the Year lists 1999, in the Times Literary Supplement and the Economist. Isabel was a co-author on The Falklands War (1982), The Fourth Reich (1984); and a contributor towards The Best Of Granta Travel and The Best American Travel Writing (2000). Documentaries include Petra And The General, an investigation of the life and death of Petra Kelly, (BBC 1994); Kingdom Of The Lost Boy, an account of the search for the 11th Panchen Lama (BBC 1996); City On The Edge, a documentary about economic reforms in China (1998); Condemned To Live, a report on the after effects of mass rape and genocide in Rwanda (1999), and The Caravan Of Death, on the case against Pinochet. Isabel also reported on shorter films for BBC TWO's Correspondent series and, The Bitter Pill a three part series on multi-national pharmaceutical companies and the diseases of the Third World, broadcast in January 2000 on BBC Radio 4 and March 2000 on World-Wide. She contributes extensively to BBC World Service and BBC Television Current Affairs, particularly in Foreign Affairs. Isabel Hilton has lectured extensively on foreign affairs, most recently in Edinburgh (Lothian Lecture series) on the European Union's relations with the People's Republic of China, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies on economic reform in China. She has presented What the Papers Say, The Late Show, BBC Radio 4’s Agenda and Analysis, BBC TWO’s Assignment and Omnibus on World Service. Isabel was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and speaks fluent Chinese, Spanish, French, and German. She is married with a son and daughter. |
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