Background
His father was Harold Shukman, a Russian scholar at Street Antony"s College, Oxford, and his mother was also a Russian scholar of writers such as Alexander Men (a Russian theologian).
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David Shukman
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He attended the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, then read Geography at Durham University (Hatfield College), gaining a Bachelor.
Career
He worked at the Coventry Evening Telegraph from 1980 to 1983 when he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation. He was a Northern Ireland reporter from 1985 to 1987 (at a busy time in Northern Ireland"s history), then the Defence Correspondent (television) from 1987 to 1995. From then until 1999 he was the European Correspondent, and broadening his coverage in 1999, he became the World Affairs Correspondent until 2003, when he became an environment and science correspondent. In January 2012 he was appointed as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s first science editors
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Australian