Published: Monday, 4th August, 2008 10:00
Star names set to top the bill at Carnegie Festival
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George Galloway
TWO of the best-known faces on television will be making personal appearances in Dunfermline next month as part of the inaugural Carnegie Festival, from 21st August to 7th September.
Evan Davis, host of the popular Dragons’ Den series, will be joined in an interviewer role by Shireen Nanjiani, who was the main presenter of Scotland Today for nearly 20 years and is still one the best-known faces on television in Scotland.
Evan will be in dialogue with fiesty MP George Galloway in a conversation on Saturday, 23rd August, at 7.30pm in the Carnegie Hall. Tickets, priced £5, are available from the Carnegie Hall box office.
Evan Davis is the BBC’s economics editor, responsible for reporting and analysing economic developments on a range of programmes on BBC radio and television, particularly the Ten O’Clock News.
Currently he is on sabbatical from this post and is a presenter on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme
Shireen – who currently presents a weekly review programme on BBC Radio Scotland – will be in conversation with leading film-maker Murray Grigor in the Odeon Cinema on Sunday, 31st August, at 4pm. Tickets, priced £5, are available through www.odeon.co.uk (tel:0871 22 44 007).
Murray has just co-authored with Sir Sean Connery a new book entitled, “Being a Scot,” due out on 25th August.
Shireen joined Scottish Television straight from Glasgow University in 1983. Her big break came in 1987 when the then presenter of Scotland Today, Sheena McDonald, was off sick and Shereen was brought in as a stand-in.
“Despite it being the most terrifying moment of her life, I must have done something right as I was made the permanent presenter just two weeks later,” she says.
Over the years Shereen has reported on all the major stories affecting Scotland today: Piper Alpha, Lockerbie and Dunblane, as well as the opening of the new Scottish Parliament.
Shereen has also presented a number of other programmes for Scottish Television including the documentary series, ‘Secret Scotland,’ and the religious magazine programme, ‘Eikon.’
She has hosted live debates and election programmes and for the past five years, has presented the prestigious Scottish Politician of the Year Awards.
Evan Davis read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St John’s College, Oxford, where he was editor of the student newspaper, Cherwell.
He then went to Harvard where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Administration.
Before becoming a broadcaster, Evan worked as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the London Business School’s Centre for Business Strategy.
Evan joined the BBC in 1993 as an economics correspondent for BBC radio and daily TV news programmes. He contributed to a range of news and current affairs programmes from The Money Programme to Radio 1’s Newsbeat.
In 1997 Evan became the Economics Editor for Newsnight and in 2001 he became the BBC’s economics eitor.
His book, Public Spending, was also published in 1998 and he is co-author of the Penguin Dictionary of Economics and the New Penguin Dictionary of Business.
He writes papers and reports for the Social Market Foundation and acts as its company secretary.
Awards he has won include the Industrial Society Award for Broadcast Journalist of the Year in 1998 and the Work Foundation’s Workworld Broadcast Journalist of the Year in 2001 and 2003.
He has also won Best Broadcast Submission at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards for Big, Bad Business on Radio 4 and the Harold Wincott Foundation’s Business Broadcaster of the Year.
l Visit the full festival programme at www.carnegiefestival.com
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