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On a day in which further grist was provided to the mill of the BBC's entrenched critics – the money it admitted spending on Jimmy Savile inquiries – it was also announced that Mishal Husain is to present Radio 4's Today programme. The appointment bears the stamp of the new director general Tony Hall. Husain is the first non-white woman to join the male-dominated team. Smart and poised, she comes with an impressive journalistic pedigree from well over a decade of reporting and presenting. Much of her success was achieved as the main news anchor on BBC World, for which she won a cult following in the US. The daughter of a Pakistani surgeon, she wears her knowledge of her parents' homeland lightly but proudly, and defines herself as a liberal Muslim. As a shopper in Waitrose found out when he told her children to behave like "proper English children", Husain is no pushover. She will be a fresh and substantial addition to Today.On a day in which further grist was provided to the mill of the BBC's entrenched critics – the money it admitted spending on Jimmy Savile inquiries – it was also announced that Mishal Husain is to present Radio 4's Today programme. The appointment bears the stamp of the new director general Tony Hall. Husain is the first non-white woman to join the male-dominated team. Smart and poised, she comes with an impressive journalistic pedigree from well over a decade of reporting and presenting. Much of her success was achieved as the main news anchor on BBC World, for which she won a cult following in the US. The daughter of a Pakistani surgeon, she wears her knowledge of her parents' homeland lightly but proudly, and defines herself as a liberal Muslim. As a shopper in Waitrose found out when he told her children to behave like "proper English children", Husain is no pushover. She will be a fresh and substantial addition to Today.
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