How to present three news programmes at once
Charles Miller
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Tasmin Lucia Khan has a busy four-day schedule in the BBC's London newsroom, where she fronts the E24 entertainment news programme on the News Channel, the hourly 60 Seconds bulletin on BBC3 and the Red Button online news service - all in the same shift.
She says the job isn't quite as her friends imagine it: "People think it's very glamorous, you must get paid shed loads and you're in hair and make-up. It may be more glamorous than the average job, but it's so much hard work - you need to be on the ball; you need to absolutely love current affairs; and you need to be inquisitive."
Tasmin gave up a City career to work in television. She's been a producer as well as a presenter, working in sport and entertainment as well as news.
Even with the number of spots she does in a night, live broadcasting is still not something she takes lightly. "When it comes to confidence, that grows," she says, "but every time I go on air there is a five-second pulling on the heart strings, where you get a bit nervous."
The film above follows her evening: planning her E24 programme with producer Emily Deeker, and presenting it, and her other news bulletins.
Download a transcript of the full interview with Tasmin Lucia Khan
Previous films in the Inside BBC Journalism series:
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