Fast Track is a 30-minute travel news TV show which was broadcast on

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. Individual segments were also broadcast on

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Presenters

The programme was presented originally by Gwenan Edwards, then

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and

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 ...

. There were also regular segments including Widget of the Week, Events and the Best of the Web. Other presenters included:

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, C ...

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.

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* {{BBC News 2013 British television series debuts 2014 British television series endings 2010s British travel television series British English-language television shows BBC World News original programming BBC travel television series