Phillip Hayton
| Philip Hayton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 November 1947 Keighley, Yorkshire |
| Education | Fyling Hall |
| Occupation | news presenter, presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Thelma |
| Children | Son, James, and daughter, Julia |
Philip Hayton (born 1947), is an English television presenter, reporter and former international correspondent for BBC News. He worked for the BBC from 1968 until 2005.
Hayton was born on 2 November 1947 in the town of Keighley in Yorkshire, England. Hayton was educated at Fyling Hall School, an Independent school near Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire.
Hayton began his broadcasting career as a pirate radio DJ on Radio 270, joining BBC Leeds in 1968. In 1974, he became a reporter for BBC News, covering a wide range of domestic and international news stories. He had a distinguished 37-year career at the BBC, reporting from Tehran, Iran as the 1979 Revolution took place, becoming a BBC correspondent in Washington D.C. and Southern Africa (based in Johannesburg), the latter of which involved reporting on the war in Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), from 1980-83. He also reported from Eritrea during the war with Ethiopia and from Beirut during the civil war in the 1980s, narrowly escaping injury when the car he had been travelling in was blown up by a land mine shortly after he had got out.
From 1988 onwards, Hayton presented the BBC's One O'Clock News nationally, as well as becoming one of the main co-presenters of both the BBC's Six O'Clock News and the Nine O'Clock News programmes. In 1989, after the latter programme's change of presentation, he became one of its main solo presenters. Following this, he left national news to become the main presenter of BBC North West Tonight, but soon returned to the main news to present on BBC World and, eventually, BBC News 24. In addition, he hosted a mid-90s BBC daytime quiz show entitled 'The Great British Quiz', which had previously been hosted by Janice Long.
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