George Arney (journalist)
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George Arney is a journalist for BBC and was until 2009 one of the hosts of The World Today and Outlook on the BBC World Service. He was educated at Clifton College and Cambridge University.
Life
[edit]Arney was a BBC producer and a BBC correspondent in Pakistan in the 1980s. He hosted BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents. He has written a book[1] book on Afghanistan.[2][3]
He was BBC correspondent in Pakistan from 1986 to 1988, and BBC correspondent in Sri Lanka from 1994 to 1996.
Arney has written for newspapers and journals including The Guardian and The Economist.
In 2007 he was named International Radio Personality of the Year by the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB).[4]
Personal life
[edit]Arney is separated from wife Razia Iqbal, a BBC journalist.[5][citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ BBC profile of George Arney
- ^ Amazon.com: Afghanistan: George Arney: Books
- ^ Bibliography of George Arney on ISBN Database
- ^ Broadcasting), AIB (Association for International (10 January 2020), george-arney_2055021339_o, retrieved 10 December 2022
- ^ "The World Today | BBC World Service". www.bbc.co.uk.
External links
[edit]- George Arney's bio-sketch on BBC Online
- BBC World Service presenter profile of George Arney (with a short video profile).
- A review of George Arney's "Afghanistan" JSTOR 2621308 and JSTOR 2621307