Peter Henley (presenter)

Peter Henley is the Political Editor for the BBC in the South of England, presenting a section of The Politics Show - broadcast every Sunday at 12.30 (Politics Show 11.55am - 1pm)

Peter also appears regularly on the evening regional TV news programmes and the five BBC local radio stations across the two regions. Peter is passionate about politics and political issues.

Born in 1964, Peter is married to Samantha with three sons, Ben, Harry and Toby, and lives in the New Forest in Hampshire.

Peter first started with BBC Radio Leicester - during the summer holidays whilst at the University of Leicester where he read Philosophy. From there he then went to work as a newsreader and reporter at Pennine Radio in Bradford and then Reading's Radio 210 FM, winning a Sony award for coverage of the Clapham rail crash.

Moving on to TVS he filed special reports from Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War and covered the weeks in which Michael Heseltine fought to replace Margaret Thatcher.

In 1997, Peter played a part in launching Meridian Broadcasting's Thames Valley news service and became Meridian's face of politics for the both the '97 election again in 2001 election.

In autumn 2001, Peter then returned to the BBC as BBC South's Health Correspondent.

Peter believes passionately that people should care about what happens in Westminster and every Sunday this can been seen in the Politics Show.

The South of England version of this programme is usually presented from an outside broadcast on location, with a panel of invited guests. Occasionally there is an audience.

Texts from viewers are now often read out, and shown on the Politics Show website.

Peter Henley also appears on News 24, reporting from the South of England.

For the BBC election programmes in 2001 and 2005 Peter was a reporter at the Portsmouth and Romsey counts.