Eddie Mair, the presenter of Radio 4's afternoon news programme, has been my favourite presenter on either radio or television for quite some time in the way he was prepared to deal with subjects which aren't easy. I'd known for sometime that he was leaving the BBC later this month but he decided to go earlier without telling anyone at the BBC.
This was his way of leaving (today he said this felt the perfect way to leave with no fuss):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programm...d6y96#playt=0h57m10s
If you were to look at the Podcast link to see some of the Eddie Mair interviews you would realise that some of them are not routine interviews. There is a lengthy list of interviews with another journalist Steve Hewlett over a period of time when he is first diagnosed with oesopheagal cancer, the treatment, progression, and the eventual realisation that he woud die. Powerful, moving, and honest.
Eddie Mair is moving to LBC due to start next month.