Ritula Shah

Ritula Shah /rɪtəˈlɑː ˈʃɑː/ is a journalist and news presenter on BBC Radio. She is the main presenter of The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.

Ritula Shah
Ritula Shah at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2011
EducationHaberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree
University of Warwick
OccupationJournalist, broadcaster
Notable credit(s)
The World Tonight
PM

Previously Shah presented Woman's Hour on Radio 4 and was a launch presenter for The World Today on the BBC World Service.[1]

Shah joined The World Tonight as Deputy Presenter and also presented the Saturday edition of PM. Since the departure of Robin Lustig Shah has been the lead presenter.

Life

Ritula Harakhchand Shah was born in Barnet in 1967.[2] She was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree before studying History at the University of Warwick and graduating in 1988. She joined the Radio 4 production team, moved from there to regional television news,[1] and then to Today in 1991 as a producer.[3] When The World Today launched on the BBC World Service in 1999, Shah became one of its presenters.[1]. She is a presenter on the BBC World Service's The Real Story.

In May 2013, she started a series of eight episodes in the BBC Radio 4 One to One series of interviews. As she belongs to a Jain family (the Jain religion is concerned with renunciation), the subjects of her interviews are people whose life has involved renunciation.[4]

gollark: Oh, hmm, apparently I'm wrong.
gollark: A decillion is 10^33, if I remember right.
gollark: I don't think stars are scheduled to not exist until 10^36 years from now.
gollark: Blind people should simply touch-type.
gollark: Why voice recognition when you could simply type faster?

References
  1. "BBC – Radio 4 – Presenter – Ritula Shah". BBC. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  2. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  3. "BBC World Service – Presenters – Ritula Shah". BBC. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  4. Radio 4 One to One: Ritula Shah
Media offices
Preceded by
Robin Lustig		 Main presenter: The World Tonight
2013 – present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Claire Bolderson		 Deputy presenter: The World Tonight
2009 – 2012		 Succeeded by
David Eades
Carolyn Quinn
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