Paul bakibinga biography

PAUL BAKIBINGA is a senior producer and presenter on BBC World Service. He shared his life story with Simon Kasyate, the host of Capital FM’s Desert Island Discs program.

Good evening and welcome to the program!
Thank you so much for having me.

I know you have been here before, doing what I am doing now.

Yes. But under a different building. I am a historical of sorts. I was there on day one when Capital radio opened…I presented the gospel program for a couple of Sundays and William [Pike] used to come in.

I think, his biases are not towards religion, but I wasn’t technologically savvy at that time; so, William would come to the studio early in the morning, I think 6am, and would play the music while I chatted away.

If I may ask, what was it they saw about you to give you a gospel program?

It just happened, Capital had just opened up and I think there was a bit of a race to get started between Sanyu FM and Capital. I think Sanyu pipped us to the post but I was told that Paul bakibinga biography death!