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Nicholas Campbell Clarke (9 June 1948 – 23 November 2006), was an English radio and television presenter and
journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
, primarily known for his work on
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.


Biography

Clarke was born in 1948 in
Godalming Godalming is a market town and civil parish in southwest Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, at the confluence of the Rivers Wey and Ock. The civil parish covers and includes the settleme ...
,
Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...
, and educated at
Westbourne House School Westbourne House School is an independent preparatory school 1½ miles east of Chichester, West Sussex, England. It is co-educational and serves around 450 boarding and day-school pupils from ages 3–13. The headmaster is Martin Barker. His ...
, West Sussex,
Bradfield College Bradfield College, formally St Andrew's College, Bradfield, is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) for pupils aged 11–18, located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. It is note ...
, Berkshire and
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...
. Clarke began his career in newspapers on the ''
Yorkshire Evening Post The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The paper provides a regional slant on the day's news, and traditio ...
'', before joining the
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in 1973 as Northern Industrial Correspondent. He then joined ''
The Money Programme ''The Money Programme'' is a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC Two which ran between April 1966 and November 2010. It was first broadcast on 5 April 1966 and presented by "commentators" (financial journalists) William Davis ...
'' and eventually joined ''
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'' in 1984. His first major job in radio was on BBC Radio 4's ''
The World This Weekend ''The World at One'', or ''WATO'' ("what-oh") for short, is BBC Radio 4's long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, produced by BBC News, which is currently broadcast from 13:00 to 13:45 from Monday to Friday. The programme de ...
''. He presented Radio 4's lunchtime news programme, ''
The World at One ''The World at One'', or ''WATO'' ("what-oh") for short, is BBC Radio 4's long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, produced by BBC News, which is currently broadcast from 13:00 to 13:45 from Monday to Friday. The programme de ...
'', from 1994 until his death. During the 1991 Gulf War he was a volunteer presenter on the BBC
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service. He also presented the ''
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'', the debate series ''Straw Poll'' and, when
Jonathan Dimbleby Jonathan Dimbleby (born 31 July 1944) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, author and historian. He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of television presenter David Dimbleby. ...
was away, ''
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'' Clarke was a reporter for the BBC TV's Look North programme, serving the North of England. Clarke won the
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broadcaster of the year award in 2001. He wrote a biography of the writer and journalist
Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke (born Alfred Cooke; 20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States.cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...
and he subsequently had surgery which entailed the loss of his left leg. During this time he documented his experiences with the disease for an audio diary that was broadcast on Radio 4 in June 2006. Clarke returned to hosting ''The World at One'' programme in August 2006, but his last appearance was on 12 September. He died on 23 November 2006. In 2007, the BBC created the
Nick Clarke Award The Nick Clarke Award is a journalism prize created by the BBC in honour of Nick Clarke, former presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''The World At One'', who died in November 2006. Its aim is to "celebrate and recognise the best broadcast interview of the y ...
to celebrate and recognise the best broadcast interview of the year, which is awarded annually at the
Cheltenham Literature Festival ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' Cheltenham Literature Festival, a large-scale international festival of literature held every year in October in the English spa town of Cheltenham, and part of Cheltenham Festivals: also responsible for t ...
. Following his death, friends from university established the 'Nick Clarke Prize'. In ''
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'', Clarke presented a faux ''World at One'' for the Quandary Phase along with
Patrick Moore Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (; 4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter. Moore was president of the Brit ...
.


See also

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Nick Clarke Award The Nick Clarke Award is a journalism prize created by the BBC in honour of Nick Clarke, former presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''The World At One'', who died in November 2006. Its aim is to "celebrate and recognise the best broadcast interview of the y ...


References


External links


BBC News: Radio 4's Nick Clarke dies at 58

BBC News: Obituary

Mark Damazer's tribute to Nick Clarke

The World At One
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