Dropped One Show presenter gets Radio 4 job

Dropped One Show presenter gets Radio 4 job
Dropped One Show presenter gets Radio 4 job (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Hardeep Singh Kohli has landed a new BBC job, despite being dropped from The One Show for six months after 'stepping over the mark' with a female researcher. Kohli is presenting a five-part afternoon show called Tea And Biscuits on BBC Radio 4 this week. In July, it emerged that he had been removed from BBC One's weekday evening programme for six months after the researcher lodged a complaint about his behaviour two months previously. Kohli previously said he had apologised "unreservedly" for his behaviour after being hauled before bosses. He said: "Nobody has accused me of sexual harassment." A BBC Radio 4 spokeswoman said that Kohli had not been banned from The One Show but has taken a "mutually agreed leave of absence" from the programme, on which he has been a roving reporter. She said: "This does not include his work for Radio 4." Since being taken on as a trainee for the corporation in Scotland, Kohli has appeared in a number of other programmes, including Famous, Rich and Homeless. Kohli is examining British culture in the radio show, including visiting a blood donation centre and a vicar and his parishioner.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.