The decision by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, to give an interview to the BBC's business editor Robert Peston, in Radio Four's File on Four special, may turn out, when the dust is settled, to be the longest exit interview in recen ...
He is on an 18m contract to work exclusively for the BBC, but even Jonathan Ross can't resist the odd freebie. Ross and his 14- year-old son have been treated to an exclusive free preview of a computer game at his London home, and are to...
Amanda demolishes womens road cred TV JOURNALIST AMANDA STRETTON is that rare thing - a female motor racing presenter. But sadly her credentials went up in smoke last weekend when, competing in the Le Mans 24-hour race, she crashed out in spectacular style...
For political leaders, one way of guaranteeing a thunderous cheer is to promise that they will give their power away. There is no more endearing move a leader can make in this anti-politics era than to declare humbly that he or she does not know best....
STAYING IN THIS WEEK'S RADIO The Chopin Experience today & Sun 7am Radio 3 This weekend, Radio 3 is transmitting every note ever written by Frederic Chopin. The sessions start at 7am with a recital of Berceuse Op 57 by Evgeny Kissin and Dong-Hyek...
PICK OF THE DAY One Life 10.35pm BBC1 Josie Russell was nine in 1996 when her mother, Lin, and sister, Megan, were murdered, and she was left for dead. She is now 21, and this is the first time outside of a police interview...
The decision by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, to give an interview to the BBC's business editor Robert Peston, in Radio Four's File on Four special, may turn out, when the dust is settled, to be the longest exit interview...
According to an analysis by BBC business editor Robert Peston, the taxpayer is subsidising the troubled Northern Rock to the tune of AGBP1000 a person or AGBP30bn. This is a scandal. And, what is more, according to chancellor Alistair Darling, it...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c67418) has announced the addition of The Harriman Book of Investing Rules: Collected Wisdom from the World's Top 150 Investors to their offering. For the first time, the tactics, strategies and insights relied on by 150 of the world's...
RADIO 4 Today programme presenter Jim Naughtie must have wondered if there was something in the water at the BBC on Friday. First Robert Peston, the BBC business editor famed for his, er, quirky verbal delivery, began his piece on the huge rise in the Chinese market by saying: "It's...
'I'm not an arrogant person who believes that, just because I have had a reasonable record in print journalism, I can pitch up on screen and be as effective as a Nick Robinson or an Evan Davis," says Robert Peston, without the hint of a stammer. "I've had to acquire...
At last comes the final settling of accounts between the bosses of The Two Families, Don Antonio and Don Gordono. Don Antonio, the capo di tutti capi, still sits at the head of the table. But not for much longer, as Don Gordono stares him down. In a relationship measured...
LONDON AFP — British airports operator BAA has approved a 10-billion-pound (14.5-billion-euro, 18.7-billion-dollar)takeover bid from Spanish construction group Ferrovial, the BBC in London reported. The corporation's business editor, Robert Peston was quoted as saying that BAA, which has also been in talks with another takeover suitor, believed to...
What was it again? Oh, yes: "There's nothing that you could ever say to me that I could ever believe." Those, you might recall, were the words that Gordon Brown said to Tony Blair on the last occasion that the Prime Minister welched on a deal to resign in his...
When Julia Hobsbawm launched Editorial Intelligence ("where PR meets journalism") last November, I grumbled in this column. Her intention is to create a database of some 1,000 members of the "com- mentariat", which she would sell. Nothing much wrong with that, perhaps. What was objectionable was the presence of a...
Would you mind if the sandwich you ate while you waited for your delayed flight at Gatwick was filled with Jamon Serrano, rather than processed luncheon meat, and came with a side order of patatas bravas, rather than soggy chips - if the 26...
Bets on new Randall A queue is forming at the BBC to replace its business editor, Jeff Randall. Senior figures are toying with the idea of offering the job to a heavyweight, with Robert Peston of The Sunday Telegraph and Patience Wheatcroft of The Times both...
TO lose one business editor might be unfortunate, but to lose two looks like carelessness, as Oscar Wilde might have quipped. Hot on the heels of the news that Rob Ballantyne is departing the Sunday Times Scotland (to be head of PR at Scottish & Newcastle) comes...
BROWN'S BRITAIN BY ROBERT PESTON (SHORT BOOKS, 14.99) I'VE always had a sneaking suspicion that the whole Blair/Brown soap opera was a ruse cooked up by Charlie Whelan and Alastair Campbell to bamboozle the parliamentary lobby and divert...
Robert Peston has endured much flak over his book Brown's Britain, with its further revelations of feuding between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. But he is used to falling foul of Labour spin doctors. In his book, Peston recounts being on a flight with Blair to...
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