Shereen Nanjiani
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Shereen Nanjiani (born. October 4, 1961, Elderslie, Renfrewshire) is a radio journalist with BBC Radio Scotland.
Before launching her radio career, Nanjiani was the main news presenter at STV Central, having presented the news programme, Scotland Today since 1987. She is the first Asian-Scottish presenter in Scotland.
Nanjiani was the longest serving female news presenter at STV. She presented with Viv Lumsden throughout the nineties. Shereen also presented several special reports for this regional television station.
She departed STV, after a round of mass redundancies at the ITV franchise.
Nanjani joined BBC Radio Scotland in 2006.
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[edit] Early years
Nanjiani was born in Elderslie, her father a Pakistani eye surgeon and her mother a teacher from England. Nanjiani studied at Glasgow University and graduated with an MA in Philosophy.
Nanjiani worked on Hospital Radio Paisley for a short time in the late 70's where she used to read some local news cuttings she had gathered during the week.
[edit] The veteran
Shereen Nanjiani earned a job as a trainee journalist in 1983 with STV. She was called in to present her first bulletin in 1987, when Sheena McDonald was ill.
Nanjiani has hosted many programmes for STV, including religious affairs show Eikon and Secret Scotland in the late nineties. Nanjiani also hosted several editions of the Scottish Politician of the Year Awards on STV. On 16 February 2006, it was announced that Shereen, along with colleagues Jane Lewis and Sarah Heaney had accepted voluntary redundancy from STV. [1]
[edit] Leaving STV
Nanjiani left Scotland Today and STV on 5 May 2006. In interviews with the Scottish press, Nanjiani said that she was looking forward to other exciting projects away from live television.
On 28 August 2007, Shereen made her first STV Central appearance since her departure on the station's video blog, The Real MacKay.
[edit] Joining the opposition
On 20 June 2006, it was announced that Nanjiani was 'switching sides' to the BBC, and made her debut as a radio presenter on Friday 11 August. This is part of changes to the presenting line-up of BBC Radio Scotland's news and current affairs programmes. She is at the helm of lunchtime programme, Scotland Live, every Friday. [2].
[edit] In popular culture
Shereen Nanjiani's name is widely used in Glasgow as rhyming slang for "fanny" (vagina). [3].
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