Jeremy Paxman

Born in Leeds on 11th May 1950, he attended Malvern College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a degree in English. Beginning on local radio, he started his career in television in Northern Ireland, becoming the first full-time television current affairs reporter. In 1977 he joined the Tonight programme, and two years later Panorama, during which time he took assignments in Africa, the Middle East and Central America among many others. Since then television credits include the Six O'Clock News, Breakfast News, You Decide with Paxman and Radio 4's Start the Week, and presented Newsnight between 1989 and 2014. In 2000 he was made an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, and has an honorary LLD from Leeds and DLitt from Bradford (both 1999).

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Jeremy Paxman