Graham Leach

Graham Leach has spent thirty years working in broadcast news, both studio presenting and reporting from world hot spots.

After joining the BBC as a graduate News Trainee, he spent several years based in Belfast covering the early stages of the recent troubles in Northern Ireland.

This was followed by a spell in London reporting on major national and international news stories. He reported on the Birmingham IRA pub bombings, and interviewed President Idi Amin of Uganda at Entebbe airport ten days after the Israeli raid to free hostages. He spent seventeen years travelling the world as a BBC foreign correspondent with postings in Bonn, Beirut, Johannesburg and Brussels.

Graham was trapped in west Beirut for three months when the Israelis invaded in 1982. He witnessed the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. He was in East Berlin on the night the Wall came down in November 1989. He then reported of the collapse of the communist regimes in Czechoslovakia and Rumania.  He also covered the European Union, including the many battles between British governments and Brussels.

He has presented the flagship ‘Today’ programme, the breakfast programme on LBC and then reported for the 24-hours news team at Sky News. He has been involved in media training for twelve years.