Carles Bosch was born in Barcelona on September 8, 1952. He has been a reporter for Televisión de Cataluña's programme '30 minuts' since its creation in 1984. While working for Catalan television he has covered such transcendental international events as the wars in the Gulf, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo. He has witnessed the revolutions in Iran, Czechoslovakia and the Phillipines, as well as the Zapatatista revolution in Mexico and Chávez's in Venezuela. His report on the Velvet revolution, 'Czechoslovakia: Heart of the Uprising', won the 1990 Ondas International prize, and his 1996 documentary 'Roses of Sarajevo' was a finalist for the Golden Nymph award at the Montecarlo TV Festival. Besides journalism, he has been head for over a year of the office for humanitarian aid set up by the Barcelona regional government in Sarajevo.