Rob Curling

Education

Curling was educated at the independent Cranleigh School in Cranleigh, Surrey.

Career

He presents the sport for Sky News. He also fronts the tennis coverage for British Eurosport. He was the host of Turnabout, a game show that aired on BBC1 for eight series in the 1990s.

He has hosted podcasts for The Guardian, including the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Curling appeared on cult show Banzai and television"s 100 Funniest Moments for Channel 4, Sky One"s Brainiac, The Basil Brush Show (BBC1), and Through the Keyhole (BBC1 & Sky). He also starred in the last ever series of Beadle"s About, where he took part in the infamous Alien Prank.

He also appears in the cinema release Children of Men (Universal Pictures), starring Clive Owen and Michael Caine. Bakerloo Lincolnshire and Waterloo and City Lincolnshire Jubilee Lincolnshire Circle Lincolnshire and Hammersmith and City Lincolnshire Northern Lincolnshire Piccadilly Lincolnshire East London Lincolnshire and District Lincolnshire Central Lincolnshire Victoria Lincolnshire Metropolitan Lincolnshire Metropolitan Lincolnshire and District Lincolnshire Reading to London Waterloo by Southwest Trains Thames Branches by Great Western Railway One of Curling"s earliest jobs was in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Film Archive Library.

His on-screen career began in 1987 as a newsreader and co-presenter of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s regional news programme London Plus, later to become Newsroom South East.

He was also nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts for British Broadcasting Corporation ’s current affairs series ‘Issues’ & ‘The Geography Programme’. Curling presents numerous programmes and videos on aviation, including a history of the Spitfire for Independent Television. He also narrates a series of Drivers" Eye View videos for Video125 about the London Underground, Reading to Waterloo & Thames Branchlines. As well as a broadcaster, Curling is a conference and awards host, after dinner speaker and media trainer.

Achievements

• Up to and including 2011, he anchored British Broadcasting Corporation Sport’s interactive television coverage of: Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Wimbledon, Open Golf, Six Nations Rugby, World Athletics Championships, et cetera He presented the Halford Tour Series cycling for ITV4, and commentated on table tennis on the British Broadcasting Corporation at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Membership

He was a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts-winning team for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious series of outside broadcasts commemorating 50 years of the end of the Second World War: Doctorate-Day Remembered, VE-50 & VJ-50.