Hobday, Peter
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Name (Latin)
Hobday, Peter
Date of birth
1937-02-16
Date of death
2020-01-18
Associated country
Great Britain
Italy
Field of activity
Broadcast journalism
Journalism, Commercial
Occupation
Journalists
Radio journalists
Television journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Guardian WWW site, viewed Feb. 4, 2020(Peter Hobday, journalist and broadcaster, born 16 February 1937 in Dudley, in the West Midlands; died 18 January 2020; one of the roster of around five presenters on Radio 4's Today programme for 14 years from 1982; did national service at the Nato headquarters in Paris; On his return he briefly worked on the Wolverhampton Chronicle, in public relations at GEC, and then on business magazines, before freelancing at the World Service. His long career with BBC News and Current affairs also included The Financial World Tonight, from 1974, British radio's first daily business programme, Money Box (1977-80), which drew on his strengths as a business journalist, and standing in for Robin Day on The World at One. On television, he presented The Money Programme for a year before Newsnight. After the Today programme he presented Radio 3's Morning Collection, which became Masterworks, until 2000. He and spouse Victoria Fenwick divided their time between London and Italy after buying a farmhouse in Umbria, where he tended his olives, enjoyed la dolce vita and wrote a series of books including In the Valley of the Fireflies: an Englishman in Umbria (1995))
- Bull, G. Industrial relations, 1972:t.p. (Peter Hobday)
- LC in RLIN, 2-25-92(hdg.: Hobday, Peter)