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18 Feb 16
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I thought this E.U. vote would be right up his street.
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The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson is to step down from his role after 10 years.
He will replace James Naughtie on the presenting team of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Robinson will also report and present across television and radio for BBC News and Current Affairs. He said it was an "honour" to succeed Naughtie and he was "looking forward to hearing someone else's analysis of what our politicians are up to". His recovery from surgery he had in March, which successfully removed a tumour from his lung. He is still undergoing a course of chemotherapy. The BBC said a new political editor would be appointed "in due course". |
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Didn't know this :
Robinson was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, in 1963, to a translator mother and a sales director father. His mother was born in Shanghai, where her German Jewish parents fled during the 1930s. His father was of English background.[2][3] His parents first met at Geneva University in Switzerland and married three months later.[2] Robinson was interested in political journalism from the age of eight.[4] He was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and University College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.[1] In 1982, while travelling in Europe, he survived a car crash in Lille, France, in which the car, a two-door Beetle, exploded and his friends James Nelson and Will Redhead (son of Brian Redhead, a journalist and co-presenter of Today on BBC Radio 4) were killed.[5] Robinson was "severely burned",[4] spent five weeks in hospital and had to defer his university place.[5] Brian Redhead became Robinson's mentor, and later encouraged his career in political journalism, giving him a copy of Tony Benn's Arguments for Socialism for his birthday. However, Robinson's early political affiliations were to the right.[4] |
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But behind Nick Robinson's famous square specs and hard-hitting questions lies a man haunted by a teenage tragedy.
The BBC's new political editor, who replaces Andrew Marr, was 18 when two of his friends were killed in a head-on car crash. Trapped in the back of the burning two-door Beetle, Nick felt sure he too was doomed. But he was pulled from the wreckage, seconds from death. Nick, 41, still mourns for his "soulmate" and best pal Will Redhead, and their mutual friend James Nelson. He is still haunted by the accident. "I remember it all," he sighs. "Our car had a head-on collisionand exploded. The two boys in front were killed and I was trapped in the back. "I distinctly remember giving up, thinking I wouldn't get out. I don't know how I I made it but I remember being on the road, being looked after. I was amazingly lucky." Doctors were astounded by Nick's recovery and he has never forgotten how fortunate he was to escape. "I was pretty badly burned," he says, running his hand over the pale pink scars on his arms. "Sometimes people ask if I have bad eczema. Although I got heavy burns, they weren't in places that caused me any difficulties moving or were cosmetically bad." Nick endured a series of skin grafts and had to wear pressure bandages for months following the smash near Lille, in northern France. |