Last updated:10 March, 2009 - 16:43 GMT

Fergus Nicoll

Joined the BBC African Service as producer in 1988.

Won the Sony Award for Best Breakfast Show in 1991.

In 2004 he published a biography of the Mahdi of Sudan.

Now writing a new book on the life of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.

Has a Sanskrit degree from Oxford University.

Plays drums left-handed.

Probably the person I most enjoyed interviewing is the Senegalese singer Baaba Maal, who is a gentleman, a quietly spoken, deeply humane man, who sings like an angel. He's the sort of person that you get to meet in this job from time to time and you go home and think 'what a treat!'

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