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Fast Track (British TV Programme)
Fast Track is a 30-minute travel news TV show which was broadcast on BBC World News. Individual segments were also broadcast on BBC News Channel. Presenters The programme was presented originally by Gwenan Edwards, then Rajan Datar and Fiona Foster. There were also regular segments including Widget of the Week, Events and the Best of the Web. Other presenters included: Simon Calder, Akhtar Khan Akhtar Khan is a British-Indian broadcast journalist and has worked for multiple international broadcasters including BBC World News, BBC News 24, Sky News and CNBC Europe. He is a presenters of '' Fast Track'', a weekly travel program on BBC Worl ..., Michelle Jana-Chan and Carmen Roberts. Both Datar and Roberts are amongst the main presenters on the successor programme; with Calder presenting a viewer questions segment. References External links * {{BBC News 2013 British television series debuts 2014 British television series endings 2010s British travel television series ...
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Fiona Foster
Fiona Foster is a British television presenter and journalist who has also spent several years working in the United States. She was the main presenter on the BBC World travel programme ''Fast Track (British TV series), Fast Track''. Early life Foster graduated from Durham University with a degree in Russian and French in 1983. Career Foster worked at BBC Radio Oxford in 1985. She also worked as a waitress and an announcer for Greyhound. In 1992, she co-presented emergency response programme "999", where she travelled with a camcorder on the frontline, capturing events and rescues as they unfolded. Foster was one of the launch presenters of London News Network's ''London Tonight'' programme in 1993 together with Alastair Stewart, having previously worked as a financial presenter on the ''Breakfast Business'' segment of ''Breakfast News, BBC Breakfast News''. ITV News During the Iraq war in 2003 she presented for ITV News. She is currently a reporter on ITV (TV network), ITV's c ...
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Rajan Datar
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BBC World News
BBC News is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd. – a subsidiary of BBC Studios – and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC. The network carries news bulletins, documentaries, and other factual programmes; it broadcasts from studios in London, Washington, D.C., and Singapore. Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008. On 3 April 2023, the channel's programming and talent was consolidated with the BBC News channel in the UK as part of a restructuring; both channels are now branded as BBC News, and are structured to use a common schedule with domestic opt-outs for UK-specific news coverage and programmes. Unlike the BBC's domestic channels, it is funded by subscription and advertising revenues, and not by the United Kingdom television licence. As such, it is not broadcast in the UK directly ...
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The Travel Show (BBC TV Series)
''The Travel Show'' is an international feed of BBC News channel travel programme. The new programme launched on 27 April 2013 and has the same programme title as a 1990s holiday programme broadcast on BBC Two. Using a network of correspondents in London, Tokyo, Sydney, New York and Kuala Lumpur, the programme aims to provide unique insight into the world of travel. It first aired in the UK in late February, after Winter Olympics coverage, in a Friday morning slot on BBC Two. A Sunday evening slot was also added on the UK feed of BBC News channel in April 2014 and BBC iPlayer BBC iPlayer (stylised as iPLAYER or BBC iPLAYER) is a video on demand service from the BBC. The service is available Over-the-top media service, over-the-top on a wide range of devices, including Mobile phone, mobile phones and Tablet computer .... Presenters Occasionally other BBC correspondents and travel bloggers appear as presenters such as blind backpacker Tony Giles, Emeline Nsingi Nkosi and ...
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BBC News (British TV Channel)
The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air Public broadcasting, public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC. The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London, West End of London from which it is anchored during British daytime, with overnight broadcasts anchored from Washington, D.C. and Singapore. It was launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17:30, as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.About BBC News 24
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On 22 February 2006, the channel was named ''News Channel of the Year'' at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history. The judges remarked that thi ...
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Simon Calder
Simon Peter Richie Calder (born 25 December 1955) is a freelance English travel journalist and broadcaster. He works for various news and travel publications as well as being travel correspondent for ''The Independent''. Biography In 1962, Calder joined the Woodcraft Folk and travelled with the group to the Lake District. That same year, after the USSR sent nuclear warheads to Cuba, Calder's parents decided that with Gatwick Airport only two miles away they were in the line of a potential Soviet target. He attended Thomas Bennett School in Crawley. Calder's first job was a cleaner for British Airways at Gatwick and later as a security guard. He began writing budget travel guidebooks during this period, starting with the ''Hitch-hiker's Manual: Britain''. He later studied for a degree in mathematics at the University of Warwick, while also indulging his love of hitchhiking around Europe. At one point he was the holder of the record for the quickest hitchhike between Land's ...
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Akhtar Khan
Akhtar Khan is a British-Indian broadcast journalist and has worked for multiple international broadcasters including BBC World News, BBC News 24, Sky News and CNBC Europe. He is a presenters of '' Fast Track'', a weekly travel program on BBC World News, and has his own radio show on the BBC Asian Network. Career In August 2003, Khan became one of the presenters of '' Fast Track'', a weekly travel program on BBC World News. Khan has been a regular presenter at the erstwhile BBC News 24, now known as BBC News, apart from hosting his own show on BBC Asian Network. Khan has also been a freelance presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live. Additionally, Khan is a motivational speaker and host at corporate events. As of September 2017, The Huffington Post described Khan as having "more than 20 years experience on both sides of the camera", covering areas related to "international affairs, geo-politics, health and fitness, entrepreneurship, current affairs, travel and tourism and, the film industr ...
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The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded as a weekly publication in 1878 by the Triplicane Six, becoming a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. Except for a period of around two years, when Siddharth Varadarajan, S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, senior editorial positions of the paper have always been held by members of the original Iyengar family or by those appointed by them under their direction. In June 2023, the former chairperson of the group, Malini Parthasarathy, w ...
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2013 British Television Series Debuts
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2014 British Television Series Endings
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2010s British Travel Television Series
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British English-language Television Shows
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