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LUIS CARDADOR

Producer/Journalist

 

I'm a London-based journalist who works as a producer and presenter for the Portuguese-language service of the BBC World Service radio.

I have interviewed senior political leaders and high-profile academics and journalists from within and without my coverage area - Portuguese-speaking Africa - and have published articles in the BBC World Service's World Agenda Magazine. Since joining the BBC's Portuguese for Africa service, I have worked as a producer, presenter, editor and newsreader, writing news reports, packages and other broadcast material on a daily basis, in one of the most exciting, fast-paced media environments in the world. 

I have been employed with the BBC for nine years, where I have also worked as a chief sub-editor for BBC Monitoring, translating, editing and writing analysis pieces on world news and current affairs. During my time at BBC Monitoring I specialized in vernacular media from the European, Latin American and African regions, a job that also took me to Nairobi, Kenya, where I worked in the local BBCM bureau.

 

I have recently visited the Amazon on a duty trip to explore the present and future of this vast, yet fragile ecosystem. This work has received the 2008 AIB's Media Excellence Award for Best Creative Radio Feature.

 

Ballet and opera are two of my long-life passions and, in my spare time, I contribute to international dance publications, such as Danceviewtimes and Danstidningen.

 

Check out my whereabouts in my SKETCHES or twittering and thanks for visiting my site!

Photos (more PHOTOS here):

BBC Para África's team (some have left but                        Meal of a lifetime in Mombasa, 10-2005          some of us are still the same... more or less!)                                                                                          10-2005

Bird-watching In Lake Nakuru, Kenya, 9-2005                     Mingling with the locals in the Mara (I still have                                                                                         the tartan cloth on the right!), 09-2005

Picture from above, Masai Mara, 09-2005                           Farewell night to BBCM team in Nairobi, 10-2005

Meeting singer Carmen Souza at Momo's, London                Dwarfed by an ancestor in Silves, Portugal,

02-2008                                                                           07-2007

Freezing in the Niagara Falls, 03-2007

       The one and only N.Y.C., 02-2007                                    Future base?

With our indefatigable "carioca" fixer Úrsula                       Photo opportunity for the fearless BBC team sporting the colours of the "Caprichoso" ox in                     about to board the 'Dom Nestor' for the Amazon Parintins, Amazon state, 05-2008                                      River descent. Can you spot me? 05-2008

Verifying the truth of the matter about 'Bolsa                     One too many mics...! At a fish farm           Floresta' in Manaus, Amazon state, 05-2008                       in Parintins, Brazil, 05-2008

Working well into the night aboard the 'Dom                            Literally, a stand-up on deck! Amazon River, Nestor'... and not afraid of the mosquitoes!                             05-2008                                               Amazon River, 05-2008

Receiving the AIB's Media Excellence Award                           In action at the BBC studios, 12-2008            with Teresa, 12-11-2008

With the BBC-s most loyal listener Lafu Baldé                        Interviewing presidential candidate Henrique (centre) and our stringer Salvador Gomes                             Rosa

Interviewing presidential candidate Zinha Vaz                         At Henrique Rosa's headquarters                     in one of Bissau's markets                                                     

With Dr Agostinho Macedo, director of Simão                             Trying not to melt aat Bissau's Cathedral Mendes General Hospital

With teachers and students at Kwame Nkrumah                         Decisive match in Mansoa for champions Highschool                                                                              Balantas de Mansoa

Feeling the pulse of voters in Bissau                                          Taking a break from the heat at Baiana

Links:

»In the Foothills of the Mediterranean Pyrenees

 »Sketches 

 »Photos

 »Straight from the Shoulder 

If you have any questions please e-mail me on luiscardador@gmail.com

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