Rosie Goldsmith has presented programmes on arts, foreign affairs, media, travel, women, fashion and health. She is best known on Radio 4 for A World In Your Ear and Crossing Continents. She has also presented Front Row, Open Book and Pick Of The Week.

She has narrated radio drama and presented the series, Winning Beauty (a current affairs series on the beauty pageant industry round the world), Hot Under The Collar  (the history of fashion) and the documentaries Married To Teacher (relationships of teachers with pupils) and The Nose School (about perfume).

Rosie was born in Cornwall but has lived in the USA, Germany, South Africa, Zimbabwe and France. She speaks French and German and is learning Italian (slowly). Once upon a time she studied modern languages at Nottingham University. She writes fiction, paints and draws and sings (preferably jazz and musical theatre).

Before she joined the staff, Rosie worked freelance for the BBC and for German Radio (Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandfunk) and National Public Radio in the USA. Her first interview for the BBC was with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany and she joined the BBC a few weeks before the Berlin Wall fell – a major personal and professional event in her life.

Rosie also hosts arts and literary events, with, for example, Anthony Gormley, Phillip Hensher and A.S.Byatt.

In addition, she produces and edits radio: Alistair Cooke’s Obituary, From Our Own Correspondent and Correspondents Look Ahead and previously Eurofile and Asiafile on Radio 4.