Last updated April 2006
Category: 5 Live
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Anita Anand presents her own show on BBC Radio 5 Live from 10.00pm to 1.00am, Mondays to Thursdays.
Before joining the BBC, Anita was the European Head of News and Current Affairs for Zee TV - an international satellite and cable television station.
She was one of the youngest TV news editors in the country, taking over the reins at the age of just 25.
Anita presented the talk show, The Big Debate, a topical studio based programme with a live audience.
She was also the political correspondent for the network in London, presenting and producing the critically acclaimed Raj Britannia series - 31 documentaries chronicling the political aspirations of the Asian community in the most marginal (and sometimes volatile) of the 1997 constituencies.
She also presented The Heaven and Earth Show on BBC ONE.
Her overseas work includes covering the Pakistani elections, and the earthquake in Bhuj. Her award-winning film of the post-disaster relief effort has been screened both here and in Asia.
Writing has always been Anita's passion, and she has been a columnist for India Today and The Asian Age newspaper as well as the Guardian.
She keeps threatening to write a book, but a love of cooking - if not washing up - has slowed that process down somewhat.
