novel presenter on BBC Radio 4 has ‘deep personal connection’ to programme through tragic death of his friend Will Redhead,son of presenter Brian Redhead When Nick Robinson takes to the airwaves for the first time as a Today programme presenter on Monday, he will do well to retain his emotions in check. Not because months ago he feared he might never broadcast again. Nor because he now holds the role he has long coveted.
Friends of Robinson said he had a “deep personal connection” to the programme that can be traced back more than 30 years, or when he was involved in a head-on car crash that killed his friends James Nelson and Will Redhead,son of former Radio 4 Today presenter Brian Redhead.
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Source: theguardian.com