Edward Stourton Interviewed by Susannah Jowitt

One of the UK’s best-known broadcasters for the BBC, ITN and Channel Four Ed Stourton reflects on his 40 years as a journalist and how the world and people’s attitudes today are very different from the ones he first reported on.

Stourton looks back at his early years including education at Ampleforth and then at Cambridge, where he had access to a network of future ministers, judges and newspaper editors, and then to his time as a young journalist reporting on party conferences, picket lines and war zones.  Over the years he has witnessed a changing world from the days of Empire to today’s Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements and the millions of voices on the likes of YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok.

Stourton is a regular BBC presenter on radio programmes such as The World at One, The World This Weekend, Sunday and Analysis. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for Channel Four, ITN and the BBC and was one of the main presenters of the Today programme for ten years. Here he talks to writer and journalist Susannah Jowitt, who writes for the Daily Mail’s Femail section.