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Huw Edwards (born 18 August 1961)[1] is a Welsh journalist, presenter, and newsreader. As the BBC News lead presenter for major breaking news in the United Kingdom, Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, the corporation's flagship news broadcast.
The Welsh are a Celtic nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history and the Welsh language. Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, and the majority of people living in Wales are British citizens.
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Fran Unsworth has been Director of News and Current Affairs since January 2018.
BBC News at Ten — formerly known as the BBC Ten O'Clock News or the Ten O'Clock News — is the flagship evening news programme for British television channel BBC One and the BBC News channel. It is presented by Huw Edwards, and deputised by Fiona Bruce. It is Monday to Sunday at 10:00pm on BBC One. The programme was controversially moved from 9:00pm on 16 October 2000. The main presenter simultaneously holds the lead presenter role for major events, election night and breaking news for BBC News.
The BBC News at Five is an hour-long daily news programme broadcast at 17:00 on BBC News. The programme is fronted by BBC News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards, the BBC's lead presenter for major breaking news, from Monday to Thursday and Jane Hill on Friday. The show includes a detailed look at the news, as well as analysis with guests and sport and weather updates.
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Career
BBC News
Edwards spent a short time on work experience at the commercial radio station Swansea Sound, before joining the BBC as a news trainee in 1984.[7][8] In 1986 he became Parliamentary Correspondent for BBC Wales.
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Between May 1999 and January 2003, Edwards presented the BBC Six O'Clock News. During this period, this was the most watched news programme in Britain.
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David Dimbleby is a British journalist and former presenter of current affairs and political programmes, now best known for the BBC's long-running topical debate programme Question Time. He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and elder brother of Jonathan Dimbleby. Long involved in the coverage of national events, Dimbleby has anchored the BBC's coverage of every general election since 1979 and United States presidential elections. He has also presented and narrated documentary series on architecture and history.
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He has also presented or contributed to a range of other BBC News programmes, including Breakfast News, One O'Clock News, Newsnight and Panorama. Since April 2006, Edwards has presented the newly established BBC News at Five on the 24-hour BBC News channel. On 29 April 2011 he presented the BBC coverage of the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. The coverage was watched by 20 million viewers at peak in the United Kingdom[9] and the team won a BAFTA Award for Best Coverage of a Live Event.[10][11] In June 2012 he presented the BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.[12] In December 2013 he led the first few hours of BBC News coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela on BBC One, BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
Although predominantly a news journalist, Edwards has presented a wide range of programming on television and radio, including documentaries on classical music, religion and the Welsh language, of which he is a native speaker, and hosted various events such as the BAFTA Cymru award ceremonies.[15] He has a particular interest in history and has presented documentaries on many historical subjects, including Owain Glyndŵr, the South Wales Valleys, Gladstone and Disraeli and a series following the work of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
He presented Bread of Heaven with Huw Edwards, a documentary about the impact of religion in Wales which won the 2005 BAFTA Cymru for best documentary and nominations in four other categories.[16]
In September 2008, the BBC Trust ruled that a documentary presented by Edwards on the subject of Welsh politics had broken the organisation's editorial guidelines. The programme, entitled Wales: Power and the People - Back to the Future, addressed the topic of the Welsh Assembly, with Edwards stating, "to achieve its full potential it needs even greater support for the people of Wales than it’s received so far ... the more people that take part, the stronger and healthier our democracy in Wales will be." Following a complaint, the governing body concluded that Edwards' words were not objective and even-handed on the subject stating' "it is not the role of BBC presenters to encourage audiences to exercise their right to vote on particular occasions." It was also found that the documentary as a whole was biased against the Conservative Party.[17][18][19]
In 2010 Edwards presented a programme titled The Prince and the Plotter about the investiture of the Prince of Wales, receiving the "Best on Screen presenter" at the BAFTA Cymru Awards for his work.[20]
In February 2012 he launched a new historical documentary series made by BBC Wales, entitled The Story of Wales.[21] Also in 2012, Edwards appeared as himself in a cameo role in the 23rd James Bond film Skyfall, presenting a BBC News report on a fictionalised attack on the British intelligence service MI6.[22]
In 2015 he presented a history of the Welsh colony in Patagonia—in English and Welsh versions—to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the colony's establishment.[23]
In December 2018 Edwards was a guest of Mary Berry in BBC One's Mary Berry's Christmas Party.[24]
Other activities
In March 2011 Edwards opened Swansea University's "Hoffi Coffi" cafe in the library created to support the aims of Academi Hywel Teifi, named after his father who spent his academic career at the university. He gave a speech in Welsh as he unveiled a wall mural of a poem by Tudur Hallam, Professor of Welsh at the university and chair of the previous year's Eisteddfod, saying it was a moving tribute to his father, who had died in January 2010.[25][26]
In 2003 Edwards was made a Fellow of the University of Wales and in 2007 became Honorary Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University.[27] In April 2009 he was elected Vice-President of Cardiff University.
Edwards was awarded a PhD on the History of Welsh Chapels in the 18th century by the University of Wales in 2018.[30][31]
Personal life
Edwards is married to Vicky Flind, a BBC producer, whose credits include editing This Week.[32] The couple live in Dulwich, London, with their five children.[32][33] Edwards is an active Christian and is a weekly churchgoer.[34]
2014, City Mission - the Story of London's Welsh Chapels, Y Lolfa Cyf, ISBN1847719058
2009, Capeli Llanelli: Our Rich Heritage, Carmarthenshire County Council, ISBN0906821789
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