Last updated August 2008
Category: News; Radio 4
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Paddy O'Connell presents Broadcasting House, BBC Radio 4's Sunday
morning news programme.
For six years he was the BBC Wall Street
correspondent, and anchored the coverage from New York of the
attacks on the USA of September 2001.
Other credits include Liquid News, Hardtalk Extra, and Flashmob:
The Opera, which won awards from the Royal Television Society and
the Music Category of the Rose D'Or festival.
For five years,
he has hosted the Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which
has failed to win any awards at all.
He was hired for the launch of WGBH The World, a Boston-based
radio programme for the United States, and the start of BBC Radio
5 Live.
He has worked for Channel 4 and LBC 97.3, and was a local radio
reporter for five years.