Karthi Gnanasegaram

British television and radio presenter

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Karthi Gnanasegaram is a British television and radio presenter working for the BBC, Amazon Prime Video, Classic FM, the Royal Opera House and Premier League Productions.

Since 2011 she has been a regular presenter on the BBC for sports programmes and on BBC One's BBC News at Ten,[1] BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 Live, The Chris Evans Breakfast Show and Today. Since 2017 she has been a presenter for Classic FM. She is also a presenter for Amazon Prime Video's tennis and football coverage and Premier League Productions.

## Education[edit]

She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls, a public school in Edgbaston, Birmingham,[2] followed by a Classics degree at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge she wrote for the student newspaper, Varsity, and played hockey, tennis and badminton (gaining blues in the latter two sports).[citation needed] She played both the violin and piano to Grade 8, and toured Europe playing the violin.[3]

## Career[edit]

Karthi Gnanasegaram was a sports reporter and presenter at BBC London News, Liquid News, BBC News (TV channel), Sportsworld and StreetFood at Al Jazeera English and for Sky News.[4] Gnanasegaram returned to the BBC and was part of their presenting line-up at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and presented a BBC1 highlights show during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[5]

She hosts Wimbledon tennis coverage on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and reports on matches.[6] Gnanasegaram reports for BBC Sport on Match of the Day, Football Focus, Final Score and The Championships, Wimbledon. [7]

She is a regular presenter of the Today Sports Desk on Radio 4, and was involved in the shows guest edited by Lenny Henry and Sir Bradley Wiggins.[8]

Gnanasegaram has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and The Radio 2 Breakfast Show

She was part of the BBC Sport team at the 2016 Rio Olympics and Tokyo2020. She was a commentator at the Rio Olympic Park for BBC 5 Live and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Tokyo2020 Games for Olympic Broadcasting Services.[9]

In 2017 Gnanasegaram read the Classified Football Results on Sports Report, BBC Radio and BBC World Service becoming only the second female to do so after Charlotte Green. Also in 2017 she began presenting for Classic FM in their 25th anniversary year.[9] In 2018 she presented the Classic FM Sporting Music Countdown Show with Henry Blofeld and the series, Perfect Pitch in 2019, talking to sports stars such as Andy Murray, Shane Warne and Ian Wright about their favourite piece of classical music in 2019.[10][11][7] The UK voted and chose Chariots of Fire as the nation's favourite piece of classical music related to sport.[12]

Gnanasegaram is a presenter for IMG's coverage of the Premier League since 2010.[13]

Since 2018 she has been a presenter for Amazon Prime's tennis coverage and live Premier League games.[14]

She has hosted sessions for the United Nations at Goals House [15]

She appeared in the film, Fisherman's Friends: One and All, as "herself" [16]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Smith, Rory (14 April 2017). "If You Don't Want to Know What This Article is About, Please Look Away Now". The New York Times.
2. ^ "Record GCSE results for King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham". Girls' School Association. 29 August 2017.[dead link]
3. ^ "Karthi Gnanasegaram | Presenter".
4. ^ "Q&A with Karthi". Wolves.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
5. ^ "TV Newsroom BBC Sports". Tvnewsroom.site. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
6. ^ "BBC Radio 5 live - The Friday Sports Panel, 20/03/2015". BBC. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
7. ^ a b "Chariots of Fire tops Classic FM's Sporting Music Countdown". Classic FM. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
8. ^ Henry, Lenny (31 December 2014). "Lenny Henry: We've had one day of diversity on Radio 4. Now for the other 364". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
9. ^ a b "Rio 2016 Olympics on TV today: Thursday 18 August – Day 13". Radio Times. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
10. ^ McCrum, Kirstie (2 July 2014). "It's time 'radio bloke' tuned into more women who talk sport". Walesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
11. ^ White, Jim (4 August 2019). "Sport and classical music meet in Karthi Gnanasegaram's new Classic FM series". The Telegraph.
12. ^ "Chariots Of Fire tops sporting classical music list from Classic FM". Independent.ie. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
13. ^ "Inside Premier League Productions: The company you know nothing about servicing 730m homes every matchday". 19 January 2016.
14. ^ "Jimmy Connors, Jim Courier and Mark Petchey join Amazon's US Open presenting line-up". Radio Times. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
15. ^ https://mch.co.uk/broadley-facilitates-goals-house-live-streaming-for-united-nations.shtml
16. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10373344/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

## External links[edit]

* Karthi Gnanasegaram on Classic FM