Nick Clarke
Journalist, writer and broadcaster
Biography
Nick Clarke (1948-2006) was an English radio and television journalist, writer and broadcaster, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4. The son of a noted Fleet Street journalist of the fifties and sixties, he read Modern Languages at Cambridge. After three years at the Yorkshire Evening Post he joined BBC TV News in Manchester in 1973. In the 1980s he worked on The Money Programme and Newsnight on BBC2 before moving into radio.
Clarke presented first The World This Weekend and then The World at One, as well as many other programmes. In 2000 he was voted Radio Broadcaster of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild.
His first book was a best-selling biography of Alistair Cooke, his second was a social history of Britain in the second half of the 20th century entitled The Shadow of a Nation: How Celebrity Destroyed Britain.
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