Kati Whitaker

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

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 Sunday programme (religious news and current affairs Radio 4) reporter for BBC Breakfast, an attachment as bi media health correspondent to BBC South; news reporter and presenter for the 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
  • 2019 Exec producer/producer Cuban Voices for BBC world service
  • Producer/presenter BBC World Service "The pity of War"
  • Executive producer/producer: Friends and foes: a landmark ten part series on the History of diplomacy for BBC Radio 4 ;
  • Producer: “Destroyer of worlds“ Radio 4 archive about the British contribution to the atom bomb;
  • Producer: Special Relationship: Uncovered about the Anglo American special relationship;

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  • This train rides again about the March on Washington Night of the Long Knives – a Radio 4 archive hour about Harold Macmillan Presenter
  • Presenter/producer: No country for old women for BBC World Service about Ghana Witchcamps

Awards
  • c. 1990 Medical Journalists' Association Silver Award for "Does He Take Sugar"
  • 2002 One World Award for radio documentary
  • 2002 Sony Awards (shortlisted)[2]
  • 2006 Education Journalist of the Year Award for Outstanding Education Reporting[3]
  • 2017 Best Current Affairs Documentary/Feature Maker (nominated)[4]
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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.


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