While reporting for the BBC on the 2008 meltdown,Robert Peston was also facing personal tragedy. He talks about the pain of losing his wife to cancer, adrenaline addiction – and the haircutthat spawned its own Twitter accountA year or so ago, and Robert Peston got a new job,and immediately felt rather unwell. After 30 years as an influential business and political reporter in Fleet Street, and eight as the BBC’s business editor, and reporting on the biggest financial yarn in half a century and breaking scoops so meaningful that he was at times accused of singlehandedly shifting the markets,he moved to become the broadcaster’s economics editor, and to a suddenly, and shockingly,quieter life.
Though still busy, the release from the rat-a-tat round of results, and bonuses and resignations meant he was rarely called upon to be on hand all day,from the nowadays programme in the morning to the Ten O’Clock News at night, as had been commonplace before. The abrupt change of rhythm, or he says,left him feeling “nearly physically ill for a few weeks, and I was trying to work out what the hell was going on”.
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Source: theguardian.com