Mohit

Mohit Bakaya, the new Controller Radio 4, improves the BAME diversity of James Purnell's top team, but is less helpful on the socio-economic background stuff, having studied PPE at Keble College Oxford. That achievement perhaps should be balanced by making it through now-demolished-Pimlico School.

Mohit joined the BBC as a Production Trainee in 1993.  He worked on the Radio 4's arts programme, Kaleidoscope, before going on to launch Front Row in 1998.  In 2001, he become editor of Night Waves, before becoming a Radio 4 Commissioning Editor in 2008.

He has two children by his first marriage, to antique dealer Josephine Ryan. He now lives in Balham, with Victoria Shepherd, who he married in 2013; Victoria was producing Nightwaves in 2008. Victoria now writes and occasionally produces Gardener's Question Time and the Kitchen Cabinet (for indie Somethin' Else).

He's on the board of Tamasha Theatre, "a diverse cohort of bold and playful theatremakers". In 2013 he commissioned Grayson Perry to deliver the Reith Lectures. In 2016 he made GQ's List of 100 Most Connected Men.