Gareth Mitchell


Gareth Mitchell is a Welsh technology journalist, lecturer and former broadcast engineer.

Early life

Mitchell was born Gareth James Mitchell in Eastleigh, England to a Welsh father. He was a member of the computer society at school as well as bellringing and organ playing at his local church. He also plays the piano and guitar. He loves motorcycles and can fly a plane.

Broadcasting

He joined the BBC during the mid-1990s, starting his career as a broadcast engineer. His initial dream was to be part of Tomorrow's World, BBC's technology TV programme, but a visit to a radio studio got him obsessed about radio journalism. Mitchell eventually decided to trade climbing TV and radio transmitter towers for science and technology journalism. His first hosting role was for the youth science program, The Lab.
He presents on the BBC most notably as the host of Digital Planet a BBC radio programme broadcast worldwide on the BBC World Service with Bill Thompson.
He additionally had written for the Q & A section of the BBC branded Science Focus magazine and regularly hosted their podcast from 2008 to 2017.

Lecturing

He has lectured at Imperial College London since 1998 in broadcast and written journalism on the Science Communication and Science Media Production MScs since 2000 or 2002. He hosts the Imperial College podcast.
He also was the host of TEDx Imperial. He has been to the World Economic Forum.