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| A graduate in modern languages ( Arabic and French) I worked as a lecturer for 7 years before becoming a freelance news stringer in West Africa and then working for the FT and BBC World Service in London. Since 1990 I have lived and worked in Australia (Sydney), the Caribbean ( Santa Domingo) , Hungary (Budapest) India ( Calcutta) working as freelance travel writer, documentary film maker and radio reporter/producer. I have fluent French and Spanish and rusty Arabic, a British and Australian passport and now live in Cornwall.
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| I write or have written for the FT, Observer, Guardian, Sunday Times, Times, Telegraph, Conde Nast Traveller, Geographical and the Independent, Boston Globe, Country Life, Camping, Country Walking and other outlets. I have broadcast on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service Radio and TV and my latest documentary 'Spy School' about MECAS - the Foreign Office-run Arabic language school in the Lebanon was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2008
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| Travel writing, radio broadcasting photography, (www.alamy.com/stock-photography-search-results.asp?qt=nick+haslam), interviewing for Imperial War Museum sound archive.
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| Credits in Country Life, Geographical, Skyward , Telegraph Special supplements, Compass magazine, BBC From Our Own Correspondent, BBC World Service (Outlook), Camping, Go Active, Daily Express, The Times Magazine
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| Walking, backpacking,horse riding, canoeing, general travel writing off-the- beaten track and luxury destinations,gardens, camping, canoe building, fishing and all things Cornish except pasties.
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