Olive "Bibi" Baskin (born 19 May 1952) is an Irish radio presenter, hotelier and former television presenter for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). She has been described as "RTÉ's legendary redhead".[2] She has also worked as a magazine and newspaper writer and journalist.
Bibi Baskin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Olive Baskin 19 May 1952 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Radio presenter |
Career edit
Baskin grew up in Ardara in County Donegal in the west of Ulster, the northern province in Ireland, and attended the local Wood School.[1] Her parents were Jack and Hilda Baskin (née Hanlon) and she has two sisters.[1] With RTÉ, she presented a television programme called Evening Extra from 1986 to 1988, and then had her own chat show named Bibi.[3] She left the broadcaster in 1994 to work in New York and Great Britain.[3] She returned briefly to RTÉ in 1998 to present The Saturday Show before working on different projects and, while contemplating her next move, decided to write a book.
A practitioner and advocate of Ayurvedic healing medicine and therapies, Baskin visited India with a friend in 2001 and discovered a property in Kerala which had been built in 1868 and inhabited for more than a century by the Raheem family, which she turned into a heritage guest house and hotel.[2][4] The property opened for business in 2003, with 10 bedrooms, offering yoga and Ayurvedic treatments.[4]
Baskin is fluent in Irish and worked as a teacher of the language at the beginning of her career. She served as one of the judges on the 2008 RTÉ television programme, Fáilte Towers.[5] In 2015, she joined Cork's 96FM to host the morning radio talk show Opinion Line.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Bibi Baskin". Ardara Official Website. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ a b Horan, Niamh (20 July 2008). "Bibi and the 'dirty little question' that riled her". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
- ^ a b "Broadcaster Bibi Baskin (1991)". Stills Library. RTÉ Archives. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Bibi Baskin to present to IIBA". University College Cork. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ "Fáilte Towers". RTÉ. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ "BIBI BASKIN JOINS CORK`S 96FM OPINION LINE TEAM". Cork's 96FM. 1 August 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
External links edit
- Bibi Baskin at IMDb