| Robin Lustig | |
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| Born | 1948 |
| Occupation | Journalist, presenter |
| Notable credit(s) | The World Tonight Newshour |
Robin Francis Lustig (born 30 August 1948) is a BBC journalist and radio broadcaster who presents programmes for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4.
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Lustig studied politics at the University of Sussex.
Lustig became a foreign correspondent in Madrid for the London-based news agency Reuters. He later moved to Paris and Rome. He then worked for the British Sunday newspaper The Observer for twelve years, where he was Home Affairs Editor, Middle East Correspondent and Assistant Editor.
He joined the BBC in 1989, presenting a variety of programmes, including The World Tonight, Newsstand, Stop Press, and File on 4 on Radio 4, and Newshour on the BBC World Service. From its introduction in 1998 until 2006, he also presented the global phone-in programme Talking Point (later renamed Have Your Say), which was transmitted simultaneously on BBC World Service radio, BBC World TV, and online. His guests on the programme included Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Olusegun Obasanjo, Hugo Chávez, and Tony Blair.
He now concentrates on The World Tonight and Newshour, although still presenting special programmes on major occasions. For the BBC World Service, he has presented every UK election night programme since 1997, US presidential election programmes in 2004 and 2008, and has reported on elections in many other countries including Iran, Israel, Japan, Russia and Zimbabwe. He has presented The World Tonight from more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, China, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kosovo and Mexico.
Lustig has written and presented two documentary series for the BBC World Service: Looking for Democracy in 2005, and Generation Next in 2006.
In October 2011, he starred as himself in Julian Simpson's improvised radio play A Time to Dance, broadcast as BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play.[1]
In 1992, Lustig was awarded a Gold Medal at the New York Radio Festival for a special edition of The World Tonight broadcast live from Moscow on the last day of the Soviet Union. In 1998, he won the Sony Silver Award for Talk/News Broadcaster of the Year. In 1999 he was described in The Times as "arguably the best news presenter anywhere in radio after John Humphrys".
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