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== Life ==
== Life ==
Ritula Harakhchand Shah was born in [[London Borough of Barnet|Barnet]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=jTzu6vhORRQWUOq02i5rTQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=31 March 2018|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> She was educated at [[Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls]], [[Elstree]] before studying History at the [[University of Warwick]] and graduating in 1988. She joined the Radio 4 production team, moved from there to regional television news,<ref name="r4-bio"/> and then to ''[[Today (BBC Radio 4)|Today]]'' in 1991 as a producer.<ref name="ws-bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/presenters/ritula_shah.shtml|title=BBC World Service &ndash; Presenters &ndash; Ritula Shah|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2009-01-26}}</ref> When ''The World Today'' launched on the BBC World Service in 1999, Shah became one of its presenters.<ref name="r4-bio"/> She is a presenter on the BBC World Service's ''The Real Story''.
Ritula Harakhchand Shah was born in [[London Borough of Barnet|Barnet]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=jTzu6vhORRQWUOq02i5rTQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=31 March 2018|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> She was educated at [[Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls]], [[Elstree]] before studying history at the [[University of Warwick]] and graduating in 1988. She joined the Radio 4 production team, moved from there to regional television news,<ref name="r4-bio"/> and then to ''[[Today (BBC Radio 4)|Today]]'' in 1991 as a producer.<ref name="ws-bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/presenters/ritula_shah.shtml|title=BBC World Service &ndash; Presenters &ndash; Ritula Shah|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2009-01-26}}</ref> When ''The World Today'' launched on the BBC World Service in 1999, Shah became one of its presenters.<ref name="r4-bio"/> She is a presenter on the BBC World Service's ''The Real Story''.


In May 2013, she began a series of eight episodes in the BBC Radio 4 ''One to One'' series of interviews. As she belongs to a [[Jain]] family (the [[Jainism|Jain religion]] is concerned with renunciation), the subjects of her interviews are people whose life has involved renunciation.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s89mk  Radio 4 One to One: Ritula Shah]</ref>
In May 2013, she began a series of eight episodes in the BBC Radio 4 ''One to One'' series of interviews. As she belongs to a [[Jain]] family (the [[Jainism|Jain religion]] is concerned with renunciation), the subjects of her interviews are people whose life has involved renunciation.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s89mk  Radio 4 One to One: Ritula Shah]</ref>