Peter Snow

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Shows

Brain of Britain

Maestro (participant)

Mastermind (radio)

Masterteam

Biography

ITN newscaster who jumped to the BBC in 1980 where he has found fame ever since. He presented Newsnight for seventeen years, on which programme he used a sandpit to demonstrate troop movements in the First Gulf War. More recently, he presented 'Tomorrow's World'.

He is most fondly known for fronting the increasingly impressive (and silly) computer graphics used as part of the BBC's election night coverage, including Robert McKenzie's famous Swingometer. In 2005, he announced that he would be standing down from this role as he will be over 70 at the next election.

Trivia

He has two famous relatives: the Channel 4 News anchorman, Jon Snow, is his cousin, and his son, Dan Snow, is an historian, who has regularly appeared on the BBC'S 'One Show' - and father and son have worked together on a history series for BBC2, re-enacting famous battles by means of computer graphics, among other things.

He survived a plane crash in Washington state, USA on 1st October 1999.

He once auditioned for the part of James Bond.

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