Veera Theerapat

Veera Theerapattranon (วีระ ธีระภัทรานนท์; born 13 April 1957), generally known as Veera Theerapat (วีระ ธีรภัทร) is a Thai journalist, radio presenter, news TV host, and author.

He got a job in the media immediately following graduation in 1978.

He was one of the journalists that followed Prime Minister Gen Prem Tinsulanonda on visits to Denmark in 1981, it also was his first trip abroad.

In 1984, he became the Daily News's first economics editor.

He was an assistant foreign news editor of Matichon including serving as editor-in-chief of Wattajak.

He was the president of The Economic Reporters Association between 1988 and 1989.

He became known for his talk radio shows during the late 1990s to early 2000s, where he used a shock jock–style, speaking bluntly and often ridiculing callers.

Born and grew up in Phichit Province, Theerapat graduated secondary school from Suankularb Wittayalai School (class 88 and classmate with Jurin Laksanawisit).

He earned a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University.

Since July 1998, he has become widely known as a radio host for "Khui Kan Chan Thueng Sook" (คุยกันจันทร์ถึงศุกร์, "talk Monday to Friday") on Trinity Radio (now Family Radio).

The program allows phone-in listeners to come and talk to the host.

He speaks loudly and argues with his audience.

During his show's peak popularity (circa 1999), it was an afternoon radio program that was not the highest rating music program on FM in Thailand.

With increasing age causing reducing his aggressiveness, he began to offer more diverse content, such as history or narrating Indian epic Mahabharata.

Theerapat is married but has no children.

During his holidays, he spends his days at his weekend house in Chon Daen District, Phetchabun Province, where he named it "Arsom Sonthaya" (อาศรมสนธยา, "twilight hermitage").