{{Short description|Irish radio presenter and entrepreneur (born 1952)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Bibi Baskin | image = | caption = | birth_name = Olive Baskin | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1952|05|19}} | birth_place = Ardara, County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland<ref name="ardara">{{cite web|url=http://ardara.ie/bibi-baskin/|title=Bibi Baskin|publisher=Ardara Official Website|accessdate=2 March 2017}}</ref> | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = Radio presenter | title = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = }} '''Olive "Bibi" Baskin''' (born 19 May 1952) is an Irish radio presenter, hotelier and former television presenter for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). She has been described as "RTÉ's legendary redhead".<ref name="Bibi and the dirty little question that riled her">{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/bibi-and-the-dirty-little-question-that-riled-her-26463184.html|title=Bibi and the 'dirty little question' that riled her|last=Horan|first=Niamh|work=Sunday Independent|date=20 July 2008|accessdate=19 April 2010}}</ref> She has also worked as a magazine and newspaper writer and journalist.
==Career== Baskin grew up in Ardara, County Donegal, Ireland, and attended the local Wood School.<ref name="ardara"/> Her parents were Jack and Hilda Baskin (née Hanlon) and she has two sisters.<ref name="ardara"/> With RTÉ, she presented a television programme called ''Evening Extra'' from 1986 to 1988, and then had her own chat show named ''Bibi'' (1988-1992) called Its Bibi (1992-1994).<ref name="bibi1991">{{cite web|url=https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/2074/051.html|title=Broadcaster Bibi Baskin (1991)|work=Stills Library|publisher=RTÉ Archives|accessdate=2 March 2017}}</ref> She left the broadcaster in 1994 to work in New York and Great Britain.<ref name="bibi1991"/> She returned briefly to RTÉ in 1998 to present ''The Saturday Show'' before working on different projects and, while contemplating her next move, decided to write a book.
A practitioner and advocate of Ayurvedic healing medicine and therapies, Baskin visited India with a friend in 2001 and discovered a property in Kerala which had been built in 1868 and inhabited for more than a century by the Raheem family, which she turned into a heritage guest house and hotel.<ref name="Bibi and the dirty little question that riled her"/><ref name="ucc">{{cite web|url=https://www.ucc.ie/en/about/uccnews/archive/2013/fullstory-407509-en.html|title=Bibi Baskin to present to IIBA|publisher=University College Cork|date=5 December 2013|accessdate=2 March 2017}}</ref> The property opened for business in 2003, with 10 bedrooms, offering yoga and Ayurvedic treatments.<ref name="ucc"/>
Baskin is fluent in Irish and worked as a teacher of the language at the beginning of her career. She served as one of the judges on the 2008 RTÉ television programme, ''Fáilte Towers''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/failtetowers/|title=Fáilte Towers|publisher=RTÉ|accessdate=2 March 2017}}</ref> In 2015, she joined Cork's 96FM to host the morning radio talk show ''Opinion Line''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.96fm.ie/news/bibi-baskin-joins-cork%60s-96fm-opinion-line-team/|title=BIBI BASKIN JOINS CORK`S 96FM OPINION LINE TEAM.|publisher=Cork's 96FM|date=1 August 2015|accessdate=2 March 2017}}</ref>
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