Hardeep Singh Kohli

Hardeep Singh Kohli
Kohli in 2015
Born	21 January 1969 London, England
Residence	London, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Occupation	Broadcaster
Relatives	Sanjeev Kohli (brother)

Hardeep Singh Kohli (born January 1969) is a British broadcaster and writer of Sikh heritage who has appeared on radio and television.

Kohli was born in London and moved to Glasgow in Scotland when he was four. His parents came to Britain from India in the 1960s. The family's roots lie in the Punjab. His mother was a social worker, and his father a teacher, then a property landlord. His first school was Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow, after which he attended Meadowburn Primary.

At age eight, he moved to St. Aloysius College, a private Roman Catholic school in central Glasgow. Kohli studied Law at the University of Glasgow.

While studying, Kohli worked in a few restaurants and began working as an usher at the Citizens Theatre.

After leaving university Kohli joined the BBC Scotland graduate production trainee scheme. He moved to BBC Television Centre, London, to direct children's TV, and Janet Street-Porter's series Reportage. He was one of the directors of It'll Never Work, which won awards from the Royal Television Society and BAFTA. Kohli left the corporation in 1996 to begin working independently. He wrote, directed and starred in Channel 4's Meet the Magoons in 2004, which was axed after one series after a poor reception. Nancy Banks Smith and A. A. Gill were lukewarm; and while the show was entered for a Golden Rose at the Montreux Comedy Festival it was unplaced. Kohli presented a documentary In Search of the Tartan Turban, which explored cultural identity as a Briton and a Scot belonging to an ethnic minority. The producers won a children's BAFTA and produced a brief Channel 4 daytime schools series, Hardeep Does... that covered a variety of topical issues including sex, religion and pets.

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