Clive Myrie

Trustee

Clive Myrie is journalist, documentary maker, writer and author, and one of the best-known faces on British television. He works for the BBC in news and current affairs and is also the presenter of Mastermind.

He began his career in local radio and TV, becoming a BBC foreign correspondent in 1996 and being posted all over the world. For the next 15 years he covered major stories including the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the elections in America of Clinton, Bush and Obama. In 2022 he travelled to Ukraine to anchor the BBC’s coverage of the Russian invasion.

He’s won four Royal Television Society Awards including twice for Network Presenter of the Year and once for Journalist of the Year. His other accolades include a Peabody Award in America, the broadcasting equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize, for reports on the Rohiynja crisis in Myanmar. He’s also been nominated for two BAFTAs and two Emmys.

Clive presents the Proms on BBC 2 and BBC 4 every year, and jazz and classical music programmes on Radio 3. He’s also made travel documentaries for BBC Two, most recently around Italy and the Caribbean.

Clive was born and grew up in Bolton in Lancashire. He’s Pro Chancellor of the University of Bolton, and Chancellor of the University of the Arts, London.

He studied law at the University of Sussex before joining the BBC as a trainee reporter in 1987. His memoir ‘Everything is Everything,’ is a Sunday Times best seller and was nominated for an Indie Book Award.

< Back to team