Reeta Chakrabarti is a journalist and broadcaster, and a presenter for BBC News. Chakrabarti was born in London, brought up in Birmingham, and attended Calcutta International School in India as a teenager before returning to the UK for university. She began working for the BBC in 1992 and has been there in a variety of roles – including reporting extensively in the UK and abroad – for over 30 years. Chakrabarti’s debut novel, Finding Belle, was published in 2020, and her second, An Impossible Woman, will be published in April 2027. She is a trustee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, lives in London with her husband, and has three children.