Tanya Datta

Tanya Datta is a British radio and television journalist and writer. In 2000, Tanya joined the BBC where she spent seven years on BBC Radio 4's award-winning foreign affairs series, Crossing Continents. She has also reported for Channel Four, BBC2 and the World Service.

Early life Of Indian descent, Datta grew up in London. She graduated from Wadham College, Oxford in 1994 with a degree in English. In 1996, she won the Scott Trust Bursary to study journalism at City, University of London. She went on to be selected as an ITN News Trainee.

TV career Tanya made her TV debut in 2004, where she investigated claims of sexual abuse and murder against one of India's most powerful Godmen, Sai Baba in a programme for BBC2 entitled 'The Secret Swami'.

In 2009, she reported in the Explore series on BBC2 uncovering 'Argentina's Dirty War' where she had a detailed look into the lives of families torn apart by the Perón government's sponsored 'disappearances' of suspected communists.

Radio career Tanya worked for seven years on the award winning foreign affairs BBC Radio 4 strand Crossing Continents producing and presenting programmes from around the world. looking into inter-racial relationships between the Asian and African-Caribbean communities which sparked a cross-media debate.

Writing Tanya has been writing a collection of short stories and is currently working on a novel.