Last updated November 2006
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Nick Clarke died in November 2006. He had been the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The World At One since March
1994 after five years on The World This Weekend.
Nick began his career as a journalist with the Yorkshire
Evening Post where he spent three years as a trainee reporter.
In 1973 he joined the BBC as a reporter in Manchester
and in 1976 became Industrial Correspondent which involved reporting
for what was then the Nine O'Clock News on BBC One.
Three years later, Nick moved to the Money Programme
on BBC Two where he stayed for five years before joining the Newsnight
team as a reporter, presenter and political correspondent.
Nick also chaired Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz, regularly
presided over Radio 4's Any Questions, and had presented Business Breakfast
on BBC One.
He had also been involved in a wide range of other BBC
ventures – from TV documentary programmes like The Risk Business
to the prestigious Radio 4 series Legacy of Empire.
He was the winner of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer
award for Best Individual Contributor to Radio (1999) and was voted
Broadcaster of the Year (2000) by the Broadcasting Press Guild.
Nick's best-selling biography of the veteran broadcaster
Alistair Cooke was published in October 1999. His book The Shadow of
a Nation was published in May 2003.
Nick was born in Godalming, Surrey in 1948, and educated
at Bradfield College, Berkshire and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge where
he studied modern languages.
