Ritula Shah is a journalist and news presenter on BBC Radio

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. As of January 2009, she is a regular presenter of The World Tonight

The World Tonight

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, the Saturday edition of PM

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, and Woman's Hour

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on Radio 4

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, and The World Today

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on the World Service

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.

Shah studied history at the University of Warwick

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 and graduated in 1988. She joined the Radio 4 production team, moved from there to regional television news, and then to the Today programme

Today programme

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in 1991. When The World Today launched on the World Service in 1999, Shah became one of its presenters, and has remained with the programme ever since.