The Adventures of Rategan by Robin Benger. The relentless drive to inquire
Read the excerpts:
- "RATEGAN DOES MOZAMBIQUE" THE FIRST ARREST
- "RATEGAN DOES SALVADOR" HALF-MOON KILLING
- "RATEGAN DOES GRENADA" DOMINICA DROWNING
- "RATEGAN DOES PERU" PITCHING SENDERO
- "RATEGAN DOES DUNDAS AND SHERBOURNE" CRACKDEAD IZZY
- "RATEGAN DOES DUNDAS AND SHERBOURNE" PLUMP COMANECI
- "RATEGAN DOES MANDELA" LIFE ON THE EDGE
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Interview with Robin Benger:
Audio Excerpt 1, Rategan does El Salvador:
Audio Excerpt 2, Rategan does Mozambique:
About Robin Benger.
Born: Bucks, UK April 15 1951 (72 years old)
Father: R.H.B.Benger MBE. Royal Engineer.
Mother: Jane
Sister: Ann Thomas.
1951-today. Beaconsfield,UK, Singapore, Rhodesia, South Africa, Canada. • 1965-1969 Head boy of most prestigious private school in South Africa, Michaelhouse. Captain of everything. • 1969-1972 Wits and Rhodes Univ (BA law/politics.) • March 1969 FIRST ARREST attending religious service on “Bantu” land without permission, Turfloop University. • August 1969 leads Premier League cricket batting averages. 205.72 • May 1970 arrested attending illegal political gathering. • 1971 Chairman, Aquarius, cultural wing of National Union of South African Students. • August 1971 Co-produces first ever performance of Athol Fugard’s “Sizwe Bansi is Dead” • December 1971 loses virginity. • February 1972 possession of dagga. • March 1972. left pinky fingernail bitten off, Rugby vs University of Port Elizabeth. • June 1972 acquitted at drug trial. • 13 October 1972 expelled from South Africa. • 26th October 1972 Sails with four others 47-foot schooner from Cape Town to Caribbean. 60 days. • 1973 Three months as ordinary seaman and first mate trading schooners Eastern Caribbean. Shot at for first time in Dominica. Missed. • Held up at knifepoint in Barbados. 2” scar right wrist. • Sails Golden Eagle 86-footer from St Thomas VI to New York. • Jumps ship Brooklyn. Heads north. • 1974-current Toronto Canada. • 1974 Worked as door to door salesman, beer truck delivery man, Nickel smelter worker (Sudbury), messenger financial district. • 1975 • Hitch hikes from Toronto-Vancouver-Tijuana-Costa Rica. • Shark fisherman in Puerto Escondido Oaxaca, Mexico, and back. • 1975-6 • Editor/reporter • Georgian Bay Beacon MacTier Ont. • 1976-1996 CBC • CBC Radio/TV • 1976 Copy Clerk, National Radio News. • 1978-9 Editor/Reporter CBC local news, Toronto. • 1979-84 Documentary Producer, CBC Radio “Sunday Morning” • 1984 First significant award, a Gabriel for “Juluka” • 1984-1992 CBC TV Journal. Best TV Show in Canadian history. • 1992- Journal killed by Mulroneyites. • 1992 Investigative producer Prime Time News. • 1994-1996 Producer : the fifth estate. • 1997 President and founder( with Christopher Sumpton) Cogent/Benger. • In twenty years, 26 documentaries. • Total 100 documentaries 72 countries in 35 years. • Multiple Awards. • 2016 closed down C/B. • Books, so far: • 2017 “A Canadian in God’s Country” • 2023 “ The Adventures of Rategan Vol One.” • Articles: • “On Cricket” Brick magazine May 2013. National Magazine Award nomination. • Married to actor/writer/coach Nicky Guadagni. • Three children Griffin, Tess and Charlie.