Background
He was born in England in 1961, but moved frequently because his father was a serving member of the Royal Air Force.
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Paul Welsh
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He studied Physics at the University of Nottingham from 1979-1982.
Career
Welsh is best known for coverage of conflicts and disasters. Particularly the civil wars in Kosovo, Ivory Coast and Liberia, and the famines in Somalia and Sudan. Roles for the British Broadcasting Corporation included World Affairs Correspondent, West Africa Correspondent, Defence & Security Correspondent, television Duty Editor, presenter of the World Service programmes Newshour and The World Today, and reporter/presenter on the television programmes Breakfast and Newsround.
Welsh has presented British Broadcasting Corporation programmes on British Broadcasting Corporation One, British Broadcasting Corporation Two, British Broadcasting Corporation News 24, British Broadcasting Corporation World Service and British Broadcasting Corporation World television Reported for the British Broadcasting Corporation on all of those and Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 4, British Broadcasting Corporation Three and British Broadcasting Corporation Four.
A founding member, and former station manager, of University Radio Nottingham he reported freelance for the city"s commercial station Radio Trent. Professionally he has worked for Centre Radio in Leicester, Pennine Radio in Bradford, Radio Aire in Leeds and Radio City in Liverpool.
He wrote a number of articles for The Independent in the 1990s. He left full-time work at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2006 and now runs a production company called Mosquito Media.
