Robin Denselow

Robin Denselow is an English writer, journalist, and broadcaster.

Denselow was educated at Leighton Park School, a boys' Quaker boarding independent school (now co-educational) in Reading, Berkshire, followed by New College, Oxford, where he studied English.^[1]

After a student-trip to India with COMEX, the Commonwealth Expedition in 1965, Denselow first joined the BBC African Service as a producer and reporter working on current affairs programmes. In 1980, when BBC Two's flagship news programme Newsnight started, he became a reporter for them.^[1] Denselow has reported from all over the world but with a particular interest in Africa, South America and the Middle East. His report on Gulf War syndrome in 1993 won the International TV Programming Award at the New York Television Festival.^[1]

As well as reporting on current affairs, Denselow has written extensively on world music and folk music for The Guardian newspaper and other publications. By 1989, he was also covering rock/pop reviews for the paper.^[2] In the 1980s, he chaired the music discussion programme Eight Days a Week. His book When the Music's Over: the Story of Political Pop was published by Faber and Faber in 1989.

• Guardian profile
• Robin Denselow at IMDb