Kati Whitaker

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Kati Whitaker is a British BBC and independent radio and television journalist. She has taken on the various roles of producer, reporter and presenter working in the field of current affairs and documentary.

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Radio career

Whitaker studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Somerville College, Oxford. She was awarded a master's degree in 1977. [1] She then trained in law.

Whitaker began her career working as a current affairs producer at BBC World Service before rapidly moving on to be the weekly presenter of the live Radio 4 disabilities programme Does He take Sugar for nearly ten years; one of the regular presenters of the Sunday programme (religious news and current affairs) on Radio 4; reporter for BBC Breakfast ; an attachment as bi-media health correspondent to BBC South; and news reporter and presenter for digital TV company The Medical Channel for whom she also took entire responsibility for their documentary output. Whitaker has also made over a hundred radio documentaries including Crossing Continents , File on 4 and The World Tonight .

She now has a production company which makes documentaries for BBC Radio. She also makes videos and works as a media trainer and presentational coach.

Recent work

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References

  1. Kati Whitaker in the Somerville College Alumni Report of 2012.
  2. Ward, Sasha (2014). "Living stories" (PDF). Somerville Magazine. p. 27.
  3. "Kati Whitaker wins Education Journalist of the Year Award" (Press release). BBC. 7 July 2006.
  4. "Audio Production Awards 2017 – the shortlist". Radio Times. 31 October 2017.