| Angus Roxburgh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 |
| Occupation | Journalist, Singer-songwriter |
| Notable credit(s) | BBC News |
Angus Roxburgh (born 1954) is a British journalist, broadcaster and singer-songwriter.
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Born in 1954 in Scarborough, England, and raised in Scotland, Roxburgh studied Russian and German at the universities of Aberdeen and Zurich. After graduation he taught Russian at Aberdeen University and then worked as a translator for Progress Publishers in Moscow. He wrote a book about the Soviet media, titled Pravda: Inside the Soviet News Machine.[1]
In 1984 Angus Roxburgh began work as a Russian monitor at the BBC Monitoring Service, based in Caversham, England. In 1986 he moved to the BBC Russian Service in London as a script writer.
In April 1987 he started working as a sub-editor on The Guardian newspaper, and in October 1987 became Moscow Correspondent of the Sunday Times. In June 1989 he was expelled in a tit-for-tat expulsion after a group of Soviet spies was deported from London.[2]
From 1989 to 1990 Roxburgh covered the fall of communism in eastern Europe for the Sunday Correspondent newspaper.
In 1990-1991 he worked as consultant on the award-winning BBC television documentary series, The Second Russian Revolution, and wrote a book of the same name. He covered the August 1991 coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for The Guardian.
From 1992 Roxburgh was the BBC's Moscow Correspondent, and from 1998 BBC Europe Correspondent, based in Brussels. He wrote a book about the rise of the far right in Europe, Preachers of Hate.[3]
For three years from 2006 he worked for GPlus, a Brussels-based public relations company, as an adviser to the Russian government.[4]
From 2009-2011 he worked on a second BBC series about Russia, titled Putin, Russia & the West, and wrote a book, The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia. In April 2011 he made a radio documentary to mark the fiftieth anniversary Yuri Gagarin's flight into space, The Communist Cosmos, for BBC Radio 4. [5]
He now works as a freelance writer and broadcaster.
Angus Roxburgh plays guitar and piano, and began writing songs in his youth. His first album, Harmonies For One, was released in November 2011.[6] [7]