Peter Snow

Peter Snow, CBE (born 20 April 1938 in Dublin, Ireland) is a highly respected television and radio presenter in Britain. He is the grandson of First World War general Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow, and cousin of Jon Snow, the main presenter of Channel 4 News, nephew of schoolmaster and bishop George D'Oyly Snow, and the brother-in-law of historian-writer Margaret MacMillan. Snow was born in Dublin, and spent part of his early childhood in Benghazi, Liby... more

Peter Snow, CBE (born 20 April 1938 in Dublin, Ireland) is a highly respected television and radio presenter in Britain. He is the grandson of First World War general Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow, and cousin of Jon Snow, the main presenter of Channel 4 News, nephew of schoolmaster and bishop George D'Oyly Snow, and the brother-in-law of historian-writer Margaret MacMillan. Snow was born in Dublin, and spent part of his early childhood in Benghazi, Libya, where his father was a British Army Officer. He was educated at Wellington College and subsequently read Greats (Classics) at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was taught by R.M. Hare. Snow was a newscaster for Independent Television News (ITN) from 1962, but gained most fame when recruited to present the BBC Two in-depth news programme Newsnight in 1979. He retired from Newsnight in 1997 and has since presented Tomorrow's World (with Philippa Forrester) and the BBC Radio 4 quizzes Masterteam and Brain of Britain, amongst other projects. He... less