Oundle and District u3a Monthly Meeting

You couldn’t make it up: the secret life of a TV reporter

Bharat Patel was one of the first Asian reporters on British radio and TV: his family left India and settled in Leicester, England when he was a young boy.

Bharat has worked for BBC Radio Leicester, Radio 4, ITV and BBC TV.  He has covered major events that have made the headlines from earthquakes to plane crashes.  He has also interviewed a parrot who spoke five languages and the world’s oldest donkey.  But behind the headlines are dozens of comic stories which have never been told – until now!