Sarah Mukherjee
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Sarah Mukherjee is a former BBC
BBC
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 Environment Correspondent. She was educated at Loughton County High School in Essex, before attending St Hilda's College, Oxford
St Hilda's College, Oxford
St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.The college was founded in 1893 as a hall for women, and remained an all-women's college until 2006....

, where she read Law. After working at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in PR and consultancy, Mukherjee completed her diploma in Journalism at the Polytechnic of Central London.

In 2005 she was granted the first interview with the Prince of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales
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 for more than a decade, in which he spoke of his concerns about the environment.

Mukherjee's mother was a single parent, and she spent much of her childhood on a council estate in Essex. She wrote, in the BBC's internal magazine, Ariel
Ariel (newspaper)
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, of her concerns about the portrayal by the media of the white, working class people she grew up with.

She is a regular contributor on Radio 4's Today programme, often reporting live from rural areas countryside and rural issues.

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