Edward Stourton has been one of the most recognisable faces and voices in UK broadcast journalism over his 40-year career. From time spent with ITN as a trainee, then Washington Correspondent and Diplomatic Editor, he is perhaps most associated with the BBC, first as Paris Correspondent, then the anchor for the One O'Clock News on BBC1 from 1993-1999 followed by a decade as one of the core hosts of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, and now, also on R4, a regular host of The World at One and religion and ethics flagship The Sunday Programme, as well as being a principal understudy for Jonathan Dimbleby on Any Questions.

He is also the author of a slew of books on all manner of subjects, from the history of the Catholic Church to political correctness and, most recently, Brexit, co-authoring Blind Man's Brexit with Belgian film-maker Lode Desmet, offering a fascinating insight into the Brexit negotiations from the EU negotiators' perspective. Arguably his best-selling book, however, is Diary of a Dog-Walker, co-authored with his springer spaniel Kudu and originally running as a column in the Telegraph, which chronicles the vagaries of his life walking Kudu in the parks of south London, where he lives with his second wife, the documentary producer and former ITN Arts Correspondent Fiona Stourton (previously Murch).

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CREDITS: Written, Presented and Edited by Paddy Cooper

Title Sequence: Matt McGurk (http://www.matthewmcgurk.com)

Title Music: Curtis Batson (http://www.curtbmusic.com)

Special thanks to: The estate of James Lipton

Executive Producer: Eleanor Stourton

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