John Humphrys Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

One of the best-known voices on UK television and radio John Humphrys talks about his life and career.
Humphrys spent almost 30 years as the main presenter on the BBC’s flagship television and radio news programmes. He was the main presenter on the Nine O’Clock News between 1981 and 1987 and on the agenda-setting Radio Four Today programme between 1987 and 2019. He is also well known as the presenter of the BBC 2 quiz show Mastermind. Humphrys is known for his tough interviewing style. He has described the BBC as “broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative” and talked of failings in BBC coverage of Europe and immigration.
He recently published his memoir, A Day Like Today, which charts his life from the poverty of post-war childhood in Cardiff to his reporting of the likes of the Aberfan catastrophe and his career as a news presenter. He also talks candidly in it about the role of the BBC and about the health of the UK’s political system.
Here he talks to LBC radio host Matthew Stadlen, a former Telegraph interviewer and BBC presenter.