The Thin Man

More famous than Huw Edwards in quality hotels around the globe, BBC World presenter Mike Embley has revealed he's leaving next Thursday. 

He's been on almost permanent night shifts at the channel longer than medical experts can remember. He started out with the BBC in the Cardiff newsroom in 1983, having trained on the South Wales Echo. Network tv reporting came in 1987 with Watchdog and Public Eye, then gigs for Channel 4 and the main BBC Newsroom. 

One (now departed) BBC senior manager told him he was 'too thin for tv'. Nonetheless he moved into presentation with BBC World in 1995.  He's 65, born in Sutton, but boasts a New Zealand passport, thanks to his late mother.