Francis Collings

Francis Collings is a journalist working as a TV News correspondent. He was formerly with the BBC and is now with TRT World.

Whilst at the BBC he presented on the BBC News channel, and on BBC World News. He also presented on the BBC One news bulletins as well as BBC Breakfast.

He has experience of covering events both sporting and political. Including football World cups, Olympics, Paralympics, and Wimbledon. He has also reported on court cases at Royal Courts of Justice in London, as well as fronting "Extra Time", a 30-minute issue led discussion programme for BBC World news.

Prior to the BBC he worked for Talk Radio UK, Independent Radio News (UK), Radio TV Hong Kong, LBC (UK), the BBC World Service and BBC Radios 1, 2,4 and 5. He has also written articles for the national press in the United Kingdom including the Scotsman, the Guardian and the London Evening Standard.

Francis was brought up in Gibraltar, and communicates in Spanish and Arabic.

He is much travelled having lived and worked in nine countries including Belize, Germany, Cyprus, Spain, and Syria.

He was based in the Syrian capital of Damascus whilst studying Arabic and the politics of Middle East at close hand, and was there when the conflict began in 2011.

He is now working for TRT World, an English language news station based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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