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MarkDC
Most of the presenters on BBC World are british but australians are also on it too. If you had the permission to work in Britain and were smart enough in terms of journalism, could someone from a different nationality present such as Europeans or Americans?

Second, if someone has the number of ppl that CNNi reaches, that would be great if they could post? BBC World has 267 million at the moment.
IK
Ivan_Katsarov
well
Mishal Husain for example is from Pakistan
Nisha Pillai,Geeta Guru Murthy,-from India
Keshini Navaratnam-SriLanka
Aaron Heslehurst-Australia
but mainly as you can see they are from Commonwealth countries
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Ivan_Katsarov posted:
well
Mishal Husain for example is from Pakistan
Nisha Pillai,Geeta Guru Murthy,-from India
Keshini Navaratnam-SriLanka
Aaron Heslehurst-Australia
but mainly as you can see they are from Commonwealth countries


Plus Lucy Hockings from Australia, and Jane Dutton from South Africa.
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A former member
itsrobert posted:


Plus Lucy Hockings from Australia, .


Don't let Lucy hear you say that. She is a Kiwi, as is Anita McNaught
IK
Ivan_Katsarov
itsrobert posted:
Ivan_Katsarov posted:
well
Mishal Husain for example is from Pakistan
Nisha Pillai,Geeta Guru Murthy,-from India
Keshini Navaratnam-SriLanka
Aaron Heslehurst-Australia
but mainly as you can see they are from Commonwealth countries


Plus Lucy Hockings from Australia, and Jane Dutton from South Africa.


and
Anya Sitaram-it seems she's from India too(not sure about that)
Aruna Iyengar-that sounds Asia too
RE
Re-it-er-ate
Sammy posted:
itsrobert posted:


Plus Lucy Hockings from Australia, .


Don't let Lucy hear you say that. She is a Kiwi, as is Anita McNaught


Ms McNaught seems very proud of her links to New Zealand too:

Quote:
She was a founding board member of WIFT - Women in Film and Television - in New Zealand. She maintains strong professional and personal links with New Zealand.


Adrian Finighan is Welsh.
You can't forget Lyse "around the glooooooobe" Doucet who is Canadian! (well at least the accent is)
IK
Ivan_Katsarov
Sure Lyse Doucet is Canadian
Zeinab Badawi is Iranian

Did you get it? It seems the women running the news for WORLD are foreigners,not the same with the men.Am i right?
KA
karthikdinakar Founding member
Ivan_Katsarov posted:
itsrobert posted:
Ivan_Katsarov posted:
well
Mishal Husain for example is from Pakistan
Nisha Pillai,Geeta Guru Murthy,-from India
Keshini Navaratnam-SriLanka
Aaron Heslehurst-Australia
but mainly as you can see they are from Commonwealth countries


Plus Lucy Hockings from Australia, and Jane Dutton from South Africa.


and
Anya Sitaram-it seems she's from India too(not sure about that)
Aruna Iyengar-that sounds Asia too


Aruna Iyengar is definitely Indian, so is Anya Sitaram.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Sammy posted:
itsrobert posted:


Plus Lucy Hockings from Australia, .


Don't let Lucy hear you say that. She is a Kiwi, as is Anita McNaught


Blimey - didn't realise she was from New Zealand! I could have sworn one of the BBC peeps on here said she was Australian a while ago!
CO
Corin
MarkDC posted:
someone from a different nationality present such as Europeans


Did you mean to write, " non-EU Europeans"?
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A former member
Re-it-er-ate posted:


Adrian Finighan is Welsh.


And is mates with Jamie Owen of Wales Today fame. Not really that surprising as Jamie runs a TV production company with Adrians brother, Rob.

Adrian and Jamie do have similar voices though. Perhaps they saw the same newspaper ad "Get rid of your welsh accent in just 2 weeks". Wink
RE
Re-it-er-ate
A Major Setup posted:
Re-it-er-ate posted:


Adrian Finighan is Welsh.


And is mates with Jamie Owen of Wales Today fame. Not really that surprising as Jamie runs a TV production company with Adrians brother, Rob.

Adrian and Jamie do have similar voices though. Perhaps they saw the same newspaper ad "Get rid of your welsh accent in just 2 weeks". Wink


Laughing ..All this whilst tricking everyone else into thinking that you're actually Irish by use of "Finighan" in the surname!

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