11 Facts About Gareth Mitchell

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

When Gareth was seven, his father lit up a bulb with a closed circuit, and that sparked his interest in science.

Gareth Mitchell was a member of the computer society at school and participated in bellringing and organ playing at his local church.

Gareth Mitchell joined the BBC during the mid-1990s, starting his career as a broadcast engineer.

Gareth Mitchell eventually decided to trade climbing TV and radio transmitter towers for science and technology journalism.

Gareth Mitchell had worked for Radio Netherlands on science programmes.

Gareth Mitchell's first hosting role on the BBC was for the youth science program, The Lab.

Gareth Mitchell presented 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 until its end in March 2023.

Gareth Mitchell has lectured at Imperial College London since 1998 in broadcast and written journalism on the Science Communication and Science Media Production MSc programmes since 2000 and 2002 respectively.

Gareth Mitchell has attended the World Economic Forum and has hosted workshops, discussion panels and conferences on science and technology.

Gareth Mitchell continues to use his engineering skills by for example has developing a way to provide the required signal needed for the studio clocks he'd bought at an auction for items from Bush House, the BBC World Service's former headquarters, he did this by making a Master clock from a microcontroller called an Arduino.