Razia is an anchor for BBC World Service's flagship current affairs show Newshour, which is broadcast globally on the network. Tim joined BBC World Service in 1990 after studying Chinese at Oxford University. At the start of 2014, he conducted the first broadcast interview in 16 years with the reclusive Islamic cleric FethullAh Gulen, at the height of his power struggle with the Turkish Prime Minister. Tim also secured the first broadcast interview with Lance Armstrong, after almost a year of broadcast silence following his confession on Oprah Winfrey. In 2013 he travelled to Dagestan to record a rare interview with Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the brothers suspected of the Boston bombing. Since anchoring Newshour, Tim has done a number of high profile interviews and reports from around the world. He became one of the main anchors of Newshour in May 2013.
Since his return to London in 2010, Tim had split his time between reporting on sport for BBC News, and presenting Newshour and the BBC interview program Hardtalk. Previously, he'd spent six years as a political correspondent, based in Westminster. His first foreign posting was to Washington, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. He also, during this period, spent extended time in Iraq during the war of 2003, and in its aftermath. He spent five years prior to that as the BBC's Europe Correspondent, based in Brussels, and reporting across the continent. For three years, he was the BBC's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem. Until 2010, Tim was an award-winning foreign correspondent for the BBC. Tim Franks anchors BBC World Service's leading international current affairs program Newshour, which broadcasts globally and on a range of public radio stations in the U.S.
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