Matthew Amroliwala

Matthew Amroliwala
Occupation	Journalist, Presenter, Newsreader
Notable credit(s)	BBC News Watchdog

Matthew Amroliwala (born 1962) is a BBC newsreader who presents on the BBC News Channel each weekday from 11am - 2pm alongside Jane Hill. He is an occasional relief presenter of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One and appears in the revamped Crimewatch programme on BBC One, with Kirsty Young.

Biography

He was born Mehrwan F. Amroliwala in Leeds,^[1][2] the son of a Royal Air Force officer, and he is a Zoroastrian. He was educated at The King's School, Ely and then at St Chad's College, Durham University. He graduated in 1984 having read Law and Politics.

He was married in London, in June 1999,^[1][2] and has four children: Milo, Louis, Mary and Mabel.

After a career as a chartered accountant he joined the BBC and in 1990 became a BBC network television correspondent. In 1997 he joined the BBC News Channel as a presenter of the channel's evening programmes, and from the beginning of 2001 he has presented the late afternoon news programme, first with Jane Hill and then with Maxine Mawhinney. In April 2006 he was reunited with Hill, and they now present together from 11am-2pm on weekdays.

He has covered many major news stories including reporting extensively from Northern Ireland. He has also reported from Bosnia on the fall of Srebrenica and travelled throughout the Balkans during the conflict in Bosnia.

Since January 2008, he has co-presented the programme Crimewatch with Kirsty Young and Rav Wilding, specializing in the solved cases.

In the third series of Ashes to Ashes he is heard reading a news item about the discovery of a body in Lancashire.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ ^{a b} England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1983. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. General Register Office, London, England.
2. ^ ^{a b} England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1984-2005. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. General Register Office, London, England.

External links

• BBC Newswatch profile

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