Max Pearson

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Max Pearson
Born1959 (age 6465)
Occupation(s) Journalist, broadcaster
Notable credit(s) The World Today
Newshour

Max Pearson (born 1959) is a BBC journalist and news presenter with the BBC World Service, best known as one of the presenters of The World Today and Newshour .

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Career

After completing post-graduate training in broadcast journalism, Pearson worked for the BBC in domestic radio. [1] Since the 1980s, he worked as a frontline news presenter with the BBC World Service. Since 2014, Pearson has also presented The History Hour, a weekly omnibus edition of the BBC World Service's daily history series Witness and Sporting Witness. [2]

Personal life

Pearson is married with two children, and is an alumnus of Keele University. He was raised partly in Zambia. In March 2011, he suffered a cardiac arrest during a 14-hour flight from Singapore to Heathrow, London. The cabin crew allegedly refused to have the aircraft diverted when Pearson became ill shortly after it took off. [3]

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References

  1. "BBC - Max Pearson" . Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  2. "BBC World Service - The History Hour, The 'Battle of the Surfaces' and becoming a republic". BBC. 16 November 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  3. "Travel Articles, Photos and Videos - AOL". www.aol.co.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2019.