Roger Hearing is a journalist and former news presenter. Previously Hearing worked as a presenter on the BBC World Service and at

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Early life

Hearing was born in London and brought up in

west Dorset West Dorset was a local government district in Dorset, England. Its council was based in Dorchester. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of the boroughs of Bridport, Dorchester and ...

Education

Hearing was educated at Hardye's School, a state grammar school (now a comprehensive school and renamed

The Thomas Hardye School The Thomas Hardye School is a secondary academy school in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It is also part of the DASP group. History Grammar school The school is named after Thomas Hardye of Melcombe Regis and later Frampton. Hardye was a p ...

), in the

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of Dorchester in Dorset; he then attended Downing College, Cambridge and

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Life and career

Hearing's career in journalism began with the '' Birmingham Post''; he joined the BBC World Service in 1987. During the course of his career with the World Service, he has reported from such countries as

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Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

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. Since 1999, he has presented '' The World Today'', '' Newshour'' and other World Service programmes. Hearing was also heard on

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as a relief presenter on ''

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''. He has covered such important events as the civil wars in

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and

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

, the build-up to the first

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Ba'athist Iraq, ...

, the UN intervention in Somalia, and the

genocide in Rwanda The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...

. He left

in 2022, and returned to BBC World Service programming presenting regularly on Business Matters and

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. He also presents a weekly current affairs podcast
The Why? Curve
with Phil Dobbie.

References

External links

BBC presenter profile

Roger Hearing's diary
in ''

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