Sonia Deol

Sonia Deol
Born	Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Radio presenter, Television presenter for CHAN-DT

Sonia Deol is a Canadian English radio and television presenter of Indian descent.

Deol's media career began before she left school, when at the age of 14 she presented a one‑off programme to raise money for Comic Relief on the BBC Local Radio station, BBC WM. She graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in 1994 with a BA (Honours) in Humanities.

In 1994, after university Deol joined Sunrise Radio.

In 2000, she was a presenter and newsreader for BBC London. Afterwards she went on Asian network Radio XL presenting their mid-morning show, the first ever phone‑in show dedicated to the Asian Community in the Midlands.

In 2002, Deol returned to the BBC Asian Network, when it was relaunched from a regional Midlands based radio station, to a national, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) station, presenting the Sonia Deol Show. The show was broadcast live on weekdays from 9.00am to 12.00 noon featuring a phone-in and discussion on news, current affairs and matters generally interspersed with music notably Bhangra. On 26 September 2003 she interviewed Indian film director Kaizad Gustad about his 2003 Bollywood film, Boom.

On 6 October 2003, she was the co-host, with then Director-General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, of the BBC local radio's Frank Gillard Awards ceremony held at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now renamed the National Media Museum) in Bradford. In an interview with The Independent newspaper in May 2006, Deol would state that co-hosting the awards with Dyke was one of the proudest achievements in her working life. Her show won a bronze award in the Interactive Category of the 2003 Sony Radio Academy Awards.

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