How many presenters can take on a Mongolian wrestler in the Gobi desert one minute to an audience of tens of millions worldwide and then be discussing the Haitian Revolution with three experts the next? Rajan Datar is a hugely experienced and versatile presenter.writer, journalist in Specialist Factual, Current Affairs, Travelogue and Arts and Cul... Read More

How many presenters can take on a Mongolian wrestler in the Gobi desert one minute to an audience of tens of millions worldwide and then be discussing the Haitian Revolution with three experts the next? Rajan Datar is a hugely experienced and versatile presenter.writer, journalist in Specialist Factual, Current Affairs, Travelogue and Arts and Culture programming across the BBC - currently on the BBC Travel Show and the BBC World Service.including 30-plus travelogue documentaries, to global audiences of 70 million> After university (Oxford and the LSE) he cut his teeth feature-writing for national publications including the Guardian and the Times and then presented and reported for the BBC on television and radio, to domestic and global audiences - as a reporter on Newsnight and as an award- winning presenter for BBC 2’s The Money Programme, writing and presenting ten half hour programmes on popular brands …from Google to Tesco. His speciality has been current affairs and culture and he is the presenter of the World Service’s flagship discussion programme The Forum, as well as being for the last decade, host of the weekly feedback programme Over To You. He has made many documentaries for Radio 4and is a regular contributor to Radio 4’s flagship Arts programme, Saturday Review.He has reported for popular consumer programmes such as Watchdog, including live.For the last decade he has become a globally-recognised presenter of more than forty travel documentaries in which he has immersed himself in local cultures and quirky situations …from fighting a Mongolian wrestler in the Gobi desert , to abseiling with refuse collectors in the favelas of Rio, to living the life of a Buddhist Monk for several days in Thailand, singing with a 25 piece male polyphonic Georgian choir in the caucuses.…and living with a cultHe has just completed a film for BBC News and Current Affairs about Dementia.He is also an in-demand moderator and speaker at panels run by the UN amongst others and a member of long running globally know ska and reggae band Maroon Town!.BBC TRAIL on Rajan https://youtu.be/yhC8eTp6DbQ Read Less