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Peter Hobday

Veteran BBC presenter and journalist Peter Hobday died last week aged 82.

He is probably best known for his presentation of Radio 4′s morning (mainly) news programme “Today” from 1982 to 1996.  He was one of the few presenters of that programme to get the balance right between politeness and challenging interviewees.  He knew that the two are not mutually exclusive.  There’s more onhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51189449

The picture above is from the first edition of financial magazine Money Box presented by Peter and Louise Botting (left of picture) in 1977.  All good wishes to Peter’s family and friends.

(26/01/2020)

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Happy 40th Birthday to Radio 4′s Money Box

As a celebration of the programme’s 40 years, the BBC has put the original edition from October 1977 on its website.  Presenters Louise Botting and Peter Hobday (pictured) cover four topics over 30 minutes:-

# Picking a good unit trust

# Teaching children about money

# An “innovative” way of borrowing money, which didn’t catch on

# Interview with the Chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue (now known as HMRC)

The first item was a bit heavy going, but the programme improved rapidly and had a remarkably contemporary feel in many places.  It’s well worth a listen on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05hkz7s

The theme tune, incidentally, is an excerpt from Money by Pink Floyd.

(19/10/2017)