Robin Francis Lustig (born 30 August 1948, London) is a British journalist and radio broadcaster, who has presented programmes for the BBC World Service and

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Family

Lustig was born in Stoke Newington, London, to Jewish refugees.

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, his father, who had fled from Germany in 1939, was in the intelligence corps and a clandestine listener to German prisoners of war. His mother, the former Susan Cohn, met his father at

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where they were both stationed during the second world war. "She did clerical work", the elder Lustig told ''

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'' in 2012, adding "women did not listen in – only men did". Lustig has recounted that his maternal grandmother was refused asylum in the UK, and was deported to Lithuania by the Nazis in 1941, where she was murdered by pro-Nazi partisans.

Career

After graduating in politics from the

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, Lustig became a foreign correspondent in

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for the London-based news agency

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. He later moved to Paris and Rome in this capacity. He then worked for the British Sunday newspaper ''

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'' for twelve years, where he was home affairs editor, Middle East correspondent and assistant editor. He joined the

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