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 Robin Lustig is one of the BBC's most senior radio presenters. As well as presenting the World Tonight, he also presents Newshour and Talking Point on the BBC World Service. He has extensive experience of covering major world events for the BBC, and has broadcast live programmes from Abuja, Amman, Baghdad, Berlin, Harare, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Johannesburg, Jerusalem, Kabul, Kosovo, Moscow, New York, Paris, Ramallah, Rome, Sarajevo, Tehran, Tokyo and Washington. He has also interviewed several major world leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, the secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, and the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
He studied politics at the University of Sussex and began his career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Madrid, Paris and Rome. He then spent 12 years on Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer, where he was Home Affairs Editor, News Editor, Middle East Correspondent and Assistant Editor. He has won a number of awards, including the 1998 Sony Silver Award for Talk/News Broadcaster of the Year.
Read Robin Lustig's 2003 Israeli Election diary
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 Claire Bolderson came to the job of presenting via foreign reporting, first as a correspondent for the BBC and Financial Times in the early 1990s in Indonesia. This was followed by a three and a half year stint in the Washington Bureau as North America Correspondent for BBC World Service Radio and Television.
When she returned to Britain in 1997 Claire, who was born in London and educated at Oxford University, began presenting news programmes for World Service working on Newshour and as one of the launch presenters for the morning programme, The World Today.
She continues to travel regularly to report for and present programmes from abroad, particularly from the United States. She's also kept up an interest in Indonesia, presenting live coverage of the country's first democratic elections in 1999 and returning two years later to report on the progress of the new democracy. Claire started presenting regularly for the World Tonight in 1999 and now splits her time between Radio Four and World Service, presenting The World Tonight and Newshour each twice a week.
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