Francis Collings

Who is Francis Collings?

Francis Collings is a former BBC journalist and television presenter. He is now a freelance film maker and journalist based between London and Lebanon.

He presented on BBC News, the corporation's rolling news channel in the United Kingdom, and on BBC World News. He also presented the sport on the BBC One news and on BBC Breakfast.

He has experience of covering football World cups, Olympics, Paralympics, Wimbledon and a myriad of other major sporting events for the BBC. He has also reported on court cases at Royal Courts of Justice in London, as well as fronting "Extra Time", a 30 minute issue led discussion programme for BBC world news.

Prior to the BBC he worked for Talk Radio UK, Independent Radio News, Radio TV Hong Kong, LBC, the BBC World Service and BBC Radios 1, 2,4 and 5. He has also written articles for the national press in the United Kingdom including the Scotsman, the Guardian and the London Evening Standard.

He is much travelled having lived and worked in eight countries including Belize, Germany, Cyprus, Spain, Syria and the Falkland Islands.

Francis was brought up in Gibraltar, and speaks Spanish and Arabic.

He was recently based in the Syrian capital of Damascus whilst studying Arabic and Middle Eastern politics.