Former BBC financial journalist Peter Day has died at his home in Islington, North London, aged 76. Peter (Lincoln School and BA English St Edmund Hall Oxford) trained on local papers in South Devon, and had a spell with the Daily Record before joining BBC Radio News in 1974, in a newly-formed 'Financial Unit' with James Long, focussed on city and business news. He had a short break as industrial and economics correspondent for TV-Am (his verdict - 'disastrous') before returning, and joining the Financial World Tonight. In 1988 he presented the first series of In Business on Radio 4. It kept going to 2016, sufficiently long to get a boost when it was deemed to be a 'podcast', awarded Most Downloaded in 2007.
He survived Birtism, and the arrival of Peter Jay as Economics Editor: "Peter Jay came in and pooh-poohed business and said it was all economics, and business was subjugate to that. And because he had such a reputation, they listened to that type of crap."
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