Joan Alicia Shenton was born on 16 March 1943 and is a British-Chilean broadcaster who has produced and presented programmes for radio and television.
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Joan Shenton was born in Antofagasta, Chile to an English father and Anglo-Chilean mother.
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Joan Shenton ultimately gained an MA degree in Modern Languages.
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Joan Shenton reported on London stories for presenter Juan Peirano on Actualidades and Ritmo de Londres.
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Joan Shenton then reported in Spanish for the Central Office of Information on a weekly television programme called This Week in Britain which was given to British Embassies in Latin America and provided free to the respective countries' television stations.
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Joan Shenton resumed her radio career in 1973, joining Capital Radio under the editorship of Michael Bukht.
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Joan Shenton then went on to present Capital's weekly hospital radio programme called Person to Person.
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In 1978, together with Ronnie Noble, Joan Shenton founded her independent production company Meditel Productions and made its first series of programmes about joint replacement surgery together with surgeon Michael Freeman.
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Joan Shenton produced and presented for the BBC's Tonight the first live broadcast of a total hip replacement operation relayed from the then London Hospital, Whitechapel to a conference of surgeons in Bern, Switzerland.
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Central Television's Viewpoint series commissioned an international look at approaches to mental illness, Forgotten Millions, which Joan Shenton co-produced with David Cohen.
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Joan Shenton has made a number of documentary films erroneously claiming that AIDS is not caused by HIV.
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In 2010, Joan Shenton was part of the Alternative AIDS Conference in Vienna and was amongst a number of denialists interviewed by Russia Today.
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Joan Shenton lived for several years in the Dominican Republic where she founded a charity with lawyer and charity administrator Dra Susana Vargas in the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic.
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In 1999, Joan Shenton produced the Home Running documentary in the Dominican Republic for BBC Under the Sun, directed by Kim Flitcroft, about young Dominican baseball players who make it into the US Major League Academies.
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Joan Shenton is a snooker player, having been a member of the 'B' team at the Portobello Green Snooker Club and participated in the Hammersmith and District Snooker League matches.