Ritula Shah

Ritula Shah /rɪtəˈlɑː ˈʃɑː/ (born 1967) is a journalist and news presenter on BBC Radio. She is the main presenter of The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.

Ritula Shah
Ritula Shah at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2011
Education	Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree University of Warwick
Occupation	Journalist, broadcaster
Notable credit(s)	The World Tonight PM

Previously Shah presented Woman's Hour on Radio 4 and was a launch presenter for The World Today on the BBC World Service.[1]

Shah joined The World Tonight as Deputy Presenter and also presented the Saturday edition of PM. Since the departure of Robin Lustig, Shah has been the lead presenter.

Life

Ritula Harakhchand Shah was born in Barnet.[2] She was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree before studying History at the University of Warwick and graduating in 1988. She joined the Radio 4 production team, moved from there to regional television news,[1] and then to Today in 1991 as a producer.[3] When The World Today launched on the BBC World Service in 1999, Shah became one of its presenters.[1] She is a presenter on the BBC World Service's The Real Story.

In May 2013, she began a series of eight episodes in the BBC Radio 4 One to One series of interviews. As she belongs to a Jain family (the Jain religion is concerned with renunciation), the subjects of her interviews are people whose life has involved renunciation.[4]

References

1. "BBC – Radio 4 – Presenter – Ritula Shah". BBC. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
2. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
3. "BBC World Service – Presenters – Ritula Shah". BBC. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
4. Radio 4 One to One: Ritula Shah

External links

• Ritula Shah's page on the BBC's website