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(March 2013)

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George Hill
Critique posted:
George Hill posted:
Peter Dobbie presenting World Have your Say on world service at the moment. Seems like this is his first appearance in the programme in a long time. He has a new twitter profile which includes world have your say. Has he been on World News recently? I'm wondering if he has joined the whys team permanently?


He fronts World Have Your Say Radio quite frequently.


Are you sure? He used to but I haven't heard him on it in years, and there was a tweet from a whys producer welcoming him back.
JW
JamesWorldNews
I guess he's been added to the WHYS presenter pool again. He was on World News Saturday and Sunday as well, as usual.
CR
Critique
George Hill posted:
Critique posted:
George Hill posted:
Peter Dobbie presenting World Have your Say on world service at the moment. Seems like this is his first appearance in the programme in a long time. He has a new twitter profile which includes world have your say. Has he been on World News recently? I'm wondering if he has joined the whys team permanently?


He fronts World Have Your Say Radio quite frequently.


Are you sure? He used to but I haven't heard him on it in years, and there was a tweet from a whys producer welcoming him back.


Looks like it's been a few years since I've listened to WHYS then!
MY
myan
Skygeek posted:
myan posted:
Mishal Husain now in Delhi covering India elections. She seems to be able to speak the local dialect with the locals.


At the time, was she in a local shop for local people? Very Happy

She was talking to crowds on the streets. She was translating what they said to English to the viewers and there's a moment she was filmed conversing with them in the dialect. It might be Hindi I presume since it's India, stand corrected if it's not.
However, Mishal's of Pakistani ethnicity.

Update: She probably has Indian roots from this latest newspiece I found:
BBC presenter Mishal Husain's bid to find grandmother's house
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26923917
Last edited by myan on 8 April 2014 5:56am
JW
JamesWorldNews
BBC World: Impact with Mishal Husain. Feels kinda familiar, somehow.........
MH
MoHasanie
myan posted:
Skygeek posted:
myan posted:
Mishal Husain now in Delhi covering India elections. She seems to be able to speak the local dialect with the locals.


At the time, was she in a local shop for local people? Very Happy

She was talking to crowds on the streets. She was translating what they said to English to the viewers and there's a moment she was filmed conversing with them in the dialect. It might be Hindi I presume since it's India, stand corrected if it's not.
However, Mishal's of Pakistani ethnicity.

Update: She probably has Indian roots from this latest newspiece I found:
BBC presenter Mishal Husain's bid to find grandmother's house
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26923917


Hindi and Urdu are extremely similar and most of the vocabulary and grammar is the same. So people that only speak Urdu or Hindi can still communicate with each other easily. The main difference is that they are written completely differently.
MY
myan
JamesWorldNews posted:
BBC World: Impact with Mishal Husain. Feels kinda familiar, somehow.........

Miss her on Impact, her calm and with a slight smile demeanor and very clear, stable pronunciation. I always feel at ease listening to her. She's the same on location too. Some journalists could get rather edgy, not her.


Rajesh Mirchandi presenting TWT right now, btw.
Last edited by myan on 9 April 2014 5:05am - 2 times in total
NE
News96
It looks like that once Alex's Salmond's speech had ended, Chris Eakin took over from Maxine early as he did the link into Click at just before 3:45 for those keeping note.
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rob Founding member
John McGuire presenting Breakfast with Naga this morning.
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HarryB
rob posted:
John McGuire presenting Breakfast with Naga this morning.

If I remember correctly, I have seen Maguire on breakfast before this year. Just the once though.
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chris_rgu
BBC News Fix posted:
rob posted:
John McGuire presenting Breakfast with Naga this morning.

If I remember correctly, I have seen Maguire on breakfast before this year. Just the once though.

yeah it was just a few weeks ago
NE
News96
For those of you wondering when Carrie Gracie was starting as China editor she has just filed a report about her return to Beijing. A blog about this is below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-27051731

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