Peter Day (broadcaster)

Peter Day (broadcaster)

Peter Day (born 1947) is a broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.

Early life

He attended Lincoln School, a single-sex grammar school, from 1959-66. His father was a manager with Midland Bank (became HSBC in 1999) in Lincolnshire. He studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

He was trained on the International Publishing Corporation (Daily Mirror Group) newspaper training scheme in south Devon. He worked at the "Daily Record" from 1970-4 in Glasgow.

Broadcasting

He joined the BBC Radio News in 1974 in London, joining business news in 1975. In 1983, he left the BBC to join TV-am as their economics and industrial correspondent. He returned to the BBC to become a presenter and producer for the "Financial World Tonight" (became part of "The World Tonight").

He has presented "In Business" since 1988. On the World Service has presented its sister programme, "Global Business" on weekends since 2000. He became Business Correspondent of the BBC in 1990, and in 1997 did the business section for the "Today" programme.

He is fascinated by the changes in industry and business from adaptations and transformations to the internet and the potential it offers to companies.

He has won the Harold Wincott Award for broadcast business journalism three times, in 1989, 2000 and 2002. He received The Work Foundation lifetime achievement award in 2006. In 2007 it was revealed that "In Business" had become a surprise podcast hit, beating "The Best of Moyles", "Today" and "In Our Time" as the BBC's most downloaded podcast.

Personal life

He is married with two sons and two daughters. He lives in Islington.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/presenters/peter_day.shtml Radio 4 profile]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/presenters/peter_day.shtml World Service page]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/01_january/25/day.shtml Receiving Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2005]

News articles

* [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=492863 "Daily Mail" November 2007 article]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4604379.stm His early life]


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