Post by marky on Dec 11, 2010 17:19:11 GMT
Name: Tim Luckhurst
BBC Position: Producer, Editor and Reporter
BBC Position: Producer, Editor and Reporter
"Luckhurst was educated at Peebles High School, a comprehensive school in Scotland, and at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he obtained an honours degree in history (1980–1983). As a student at Cambridge he founded and played bass guitar in Tony Tiger and the Frosties alongside Andy White the Northern Irish singer, songwriter and poet. The band entertained thousands of students at May Balls and at The Red Event. Between 1985 and 1988 he worked as Parliamentary Press Officer for Donald Dewar MP, then Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, and for the Scottish Labour group of MPs at Westminster. He stood as the Labour candidate in the Roxburgh and Berwickshire constituency at the 1987 British general election."
"He worked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme for which he produced, edited and reported from the UK and abroad. Luckhurst covered the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the First Gulf War and the Waco Siege for BBC Radio and reported on the liberation of Kosovo and the fall of Slobodan Milošević for The Scotsman. He was the BBC's Washington Producer during the first year of the Clinton presidency and returned to the UK to become a senior member of the team that designed and launched BBC Radio Five Live. He played a crucial role in winning for Five Live the 1995 Sony Radio Academy Award for Station of the Year. From 1995 to 1997 he was Editor of News Programmes at BBC Scotland in which role he introduced bi-media working in BBC Scotland newsrooms and thoroughly revised the design and presentation of programmes including Good Morning Scotland, Newsdrive and Reporting Scotland." Wiki