Veteran
British news
broadcaster Peter Snow began his
career in
1962 with
ITN. His unbounded enthusiasm for
politics and the political process meant that he rapidly became
the voice of
election analysis in the
UK, bringing knowledge of the science of
psephology to general attention.
For 18 years he presented the BBC's flagship news analysis programme, Newsnight, as well as receiving awards for his on-the-spot reporting from Kuwait during the Gulf War. In 1997 he moved over to popular science programme Tomorrow's World to which he applied his distinctive style along with luscious co-presenter Philippa Forrester.
He describes his most memorable TV experience as:
Watching a million Chinese digging a canal from Beijing to the sea in 1972 - with their hands.