Peter Snow
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Peter Snow (born April 20, 1938) is a British television and radio presenter. He is the cousin of Jon Snow, the main presenter of Channel 4 News.
He attended Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Snow was a newscaster for Independent Television News (ITN) from the 1960s, but gained most fame when recruited to present the BBC2 in-depth news programme Newsnight in 1980. He retired from Newsnight in 1998 and has since presented Tomorrow's World and the BBC Radio 4 quiz Masterteam, amongst other projects.
He has been involved in the live general election results programmes for many years, first at ITN and later for the BBC. He presents statistical analyses of the election results, and took over responsibility for the "Swingometer" following the death of Robert McKenzie. He is known for his somewhat excitable style of presentation and ever-more elaborate props and graphics, though perhaps his most famous prop was the most basic - a sandpit which he used to illustrate the progress of the US invasion of Iraq.
Along with his son, Dan, Peter Snow presented a TV series Battlefield Britain, covering battles on British soil from Boudicca's struggle with the Romans to the Battle of Britain.
He survived a plane crash in Washington on October 1, 1999.
External links
- BBC News Online - Peter Snow survives plane crash (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/463656.stm)