Fergus Nicoll

Fergus Nicoll is a freelance journalist, author and news presenter with the BBC World Service. Currently he is one the presenters of the current affairs programme "The World Today".

After working as a teacher in northern Sudan, he began his career with the BBC in 1988 with the African Service. He moved to the BBC's Cairo Bureau in 1992 and spent three years (1996-9) as a World Affairs Correspondent, filing for the World Service and BBC World TV. In 2004, he published a biography of the Mahdi of Sudan, "The Sword of the Prophet". His second book, a biography of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, is due to be published by Haus Publishing and Penguin India. He is currently working on a comprehensive edition of General Charles Gordon's Khartoum journals (September-December 1884), as part of a doctoral research programme at Reading University.

Awards

*Sony Award for "Best Breakfast Show" (1991)

References

* http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/worldtoday/presenters/story/2004/02/040202_fergusnicoll.shtml