The Adventures of Rategan - Benger, Robin
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After more than 100 documentaries in 65 countries over 40 years, Rategan calls it a day, laying down herein six of the strangest and richest things that happened to him. From the killing of Mozambique to the back alleys of Toronto, and many places in between, extraordinary stories from an extraordinary life. "A mix of Elmore Leonard and Don DeLillo. The scenes are tinged with the knowledge that comes from real experience. Really great stuff." Michael Winter, author "If you plan to get a good night's sleep, do not start reading Robin Benger's collection of fearless adventures as a journalist,…mehr

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After more than 100 documentaries in 65 countries over 40 years, Rategan calls it a day, laying down herein six of the strangest and richest things that happened to him. From the killing of Mozambique to the back alleys of Toronto, and many places in between, extraordinary stories from an extraordinary life. "A mix of Elmore Leonard and Don DeLillo. The scenes are tinged with the knowledge that comes from real experience. Really great stuff." Michael Winter, author "If you plan to get a good night's sleep, do not start reading Robin Benger's collection of fearless adventures as a journalist, in war zones, catastrophes and revolutions: before you know it, you will see the sun rise. Alan Mendelson, executive producer, TV series
Autorenporträt
Robin Benger, born in England, raised in South Africa, and was based in Toronto, Canada, for his radio and television career. Graduating in Law and Political Studies (Africa) from Rhodes University in 1971, Benger was expelled from South Africa for political activism and sailed from Cape Town to New York. In Canada he worked on beer trucks and at INCO's Copper Cliff smelter before hitchhiking across North America and down through Mexico to Costa Rica and back. He got a job in weekly newspapers in Georgian Bay, before starting off at the bottom as copy clerk of the national radio newsroom at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1978. For the next twenty years he worked for the CBC, as a reporter/editor in radio news, as a documentary producer for Sunday Morning, and as a documentary producer for The Journal and The Fifth Estate.In 1998 he took a package and left the CBC for independent documentary production. With his partner Christopher Sumpton, Cogent/Benger produced 26 films in 20 years, many of them award winners. Since 2016, Benger has written two books, A Canadian in God's Country and this one.He lives in Toronto with his actress wife Nicky Gaudagni, near his three children, Griffin, Tess and Charlie.