Biographies

BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 business programme presenter

Peter Day has worked for the BBC since 1974, with two breaks: in 1983 he was poached by British breakfast channel TV-am (before being replaced by cult TV puppet Roland Rat), and in 1990 he enjoyed a brief sojourn at the European Business Channel in Zurich.

Peter currently presents the BBC World Service weekend programme Global Business.

He is also the presenter of In Business on BBC Radio 4.

In 1988 he won the first Harold Wincott Award for broadcast business journalism. He now has three Harold Wincott Awards, having picked up one more each for In Business and Global Business.

In 2005 he was given a lifetime achievement award by the Work Foundation.

Born in Norfolk in 1947, Peter was educated at Lincoln School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he took a degree in English.

He worked on the Daily Record in Glasgow for four years before joining BBC Radio News in London, soon specialising in business, City and money news.

Peter lives in North London, where he's perfectly located for his work – he's just a 15-minute bicycle ride from the City of London.

In his spare time, his trivial pursuits are musical. He's very slowly learning to play the cello and to ring church bells.