# Phil Mercer
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phil mercer is an English radio presenter born in Reigate, Surrey. He currently presents the Sunday Gardening and Food show Garden Café with Sophie Grigson on BBC Radio Oxford.
== Career ==
Mercer started in radio reading travel news for (the now defunct) AA Roadwatch in 1994.
Australia phone ban to comes into effect from tomorrow – what's the latest?
In just a couple of hours Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s will begin. For more on this Phil Mercer, BBC Australia Correspondent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12 dead in shooting at Bondi Beach's Hanukkah event
At least 12 people have been killed and 29 injured in a terrorist attack targeting a Jewish celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australian police have said. We get the latest from Phil Mercer of the BBC.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Memorial event held at Bondi Beach one week after mass shooting
In Australia, one week on from the attacks in which 15 people were killed, a national day of reflection was held. Phil Mercer, Sydney-based journalist, gives us the latest.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bonus: Bondi shooting tests Australia’s social cohesion
A deadly shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach - one of Australia’s most iconic public spaces - has raised urgent questions about how such an attack could happen in a country known for strict gun control. With more than a dozen people killed, the attack has shocked the nation and sharpened concerns abou…
INDIA - CANADA - AUSTRALIA
Sajeda Momin reports on India's new census. Dan Karpenchuk reports on Canada's biggest ever military procurement deal. And Phil Mercer reports from Australia, where a former nanny accused of torture and kidnapping for the Chilean Pinochet regime has lost her final legal bid to avoid extradition to …
INDIA - CANADA - AUSTRALIA
Sajeda Momin reports on India's new census. Dan Karpenchuk reports on Canada's biggest ever military procurement deal. And Phil Mercer reports from Australia, where a former nanny accused of torture and kidnapping for the Chilean Pinochet regime has lost her final legal bid to avoid extradition to …
The price of dissent in Belarus
The repressive tactics of the Belarusian state have been back in the news this week – and all over the map. The Olympic Games in Tokyo were shaken by sprinter Krystina Timonovskaya’s row with her coaches – she ended up seeking asylum in Poland. In Ukraine, the head of a group helping Belarusian emi…
A Croc at the Door!
Hungry crocodiles are invading homes in northern Australia looking for the family pet, Phil Mercer has that story; the dangers of a drive through increasingly violent Iraq, Paul Martin; what makes an Indian cinema crowd scream at the screen, Mark Tully; the former gangsters trying to reduce gun cri…
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