Roger Hearing is a journalist and former news presenter. Previously Hearing worked as a presenter on the

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and at Bloomberg Radio.

Early life

Hearing was born in London and brought up in west Dorset.

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 prop ...

), in the market town of Dorchester in Dorset; he then attended

Downing College, Cambridge Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the olde ...

and City University London.

Life and career

Hearing's career in journalism began with the ''

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''; he joined the

in 1987. During the course of his career with the World Service, he has reported from such countries as Zambia, Iraq, Burma, Azerbaijan, India and Peru. Since 1999, he has presented '' The World Today'', ''

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'' and other World Service programmes. Hearing was also heard on BBC Radio 4 as a relief presenter on '' The World Tonight''. He has covered such important events as the civil wars in Angola and Mozambique, the build-up to the first Gulf War, the UN intervention in Somalia, and the genocide in Rwanda. He left Bloomberg Radio in 2022, and returned to BBC World Service programming presenting regularly on

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and World Business Report. 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 '' The Guardian''. Living people BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC World Service People educated at Hardye's School Year of birth missing (living people) {{BBC-radio-stub