Robin BengerRobin 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 plitical 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. Read More Read Less