Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter since 1997, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. He previously worked as a BBC Radio reporter.
Bradshaw is the son of an Anglican vicar at Norwich Cathedral. Bradshaw was educated at Thorpe Grammar School (now the Thorpe St Andrew High School) near Norwich, followed by th...
More
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter since 1997, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. He previously worked as a BBC Radio reporter.
Bradshaw is the son of an Anglican vicar at Norwich Cathedral. Bradshaw was educated at Thorpe Grammar School (now the Thorpe St Andrew High School) near Norwich, followed by the University of Sussex where he read German. He also attended the University of Freiburg in the town of Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
In 1982/83 Bradshaw taught English at the Technikum, a school of technology in Winterthur (Switzerland). He became a reporter with the Exeter Express and Echo in 1984 and was appointed as a reporter with the Eastern Daily Press in Norwich in 1985. In 1986 he joined the BBC as reporter with BBC Radio Devon. In 1989 he became the award winning Berlin correspondent with BBC Radio and was...
Less
