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Peter Snow (natural April 20, 1938) is a British television and radio presenter. He is the first cousin of Jon Snow, the independent presenter of Channel 4 News, and a brother-around-law of historian-writer Margaret MacMillan.
He see Greats at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he was taught by R.M. Hare.
Snow was the newscaster for Independent Television News (ITN) from a 1960s, but gained virtually all fame after recruited to present a BBC2 in-depth news programme Newsnight in 1980. He retired from either Newsnight inside 1998 and has since presented ''Tomorrow's World and the BBC Radio 4 quiz Masterteam, amongst other projects.
He has been exposed in the survive general election results programmes for many years, number 1 at ITN & late for the BBC. He presents technical indicator analyses of the election effects, & took across responsibility for the "Swingometer" following the demise of Robert McKenzie. He is known for his somewhat irritable style of presentation & ever-further elaborate props & graphics, though peradventure his best known prop was the virtually all basic - a sandpit which he used to illustrate a progress of the US invasion of Iraq.
Along by having his boy, Dan, Peter Snow presented the TV series Battlefield Britain'', covering battles on British soil from either Boudicca's struggle with a Romans to the Battle of Britain.
He survived the plane crash in Washington on October 1, 1999. In October 6th 2005, a BBC announced that Peter Snow would become standing down from either his electoral reponsibilties & concentrate other in journalism. Mr. Snow himself is quoted when saying "I shall be over 70 at the next general election and that, frankly, is a bit old to be dancing around in front of huge graphic displays"
Other references at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4316866.stm
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