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Podcast: The Shift with Sam Baker
Episode: Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder
Description: My guest this week is the journalist and broadcaster Reeta Chakrabarti.
After two decades producing and reporting for the BBC, Reeta became a news presenter at the age of 49. She was the main BBC presenter in Lviv in Western Ukraine and is now one of the chief presenters of BBC news at 6 and BBC news at 10.
Brought up in Birmingham, as a teenager Reeta went to school in Calcutta before returning to the UK to go to university.Â
She joined the BBC in 1992 where she started on Radio One Newsbeat and presented news b...