Peter Sissons

[Karl]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49908660

Peter Sissons, the former BBC and ITN newsreader and Question Time host, has died at the age of 77.

Sissons joined ITN in the 1960s before moving to the BBC in 1989 to present Question Time and the Six O'Clock News.

BBC director general Tony Hall described him as "one of the great television figures of his time".

The late broadcaster's old Liverpool school friend Sir Paul McCartney called Sissons "a talented news presenter with a great sense of humour"

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I'm going to miss the man!

A good man. Probably the best on TV.

God bless you.

x

 

[Terry Tait]

Peter Sissons was a great news reader who possessed a good deal of gravitas, he was a consummate professional.

 

[Busaholic]

I'm going to miss the man!

A good man. Probably the best on TV.

God bless you.

x

Imo, the best television newsreader ever, along with long-gone Andrew Gardner at ITV. Coincidentally, both lived in Kent.

 

[bramling]

I'm going to miss the man!

A good man. Probably the best on TV.

God bless you.

x

Agreed. A proper “old school” newsreader. RIP.

 

[Karl]

Agreed. A proper “old school” newsreader. RIP.

We grow up with presenters like Peter and when they die it's like losing a family member.

 

[Kingspanner]

When he was working BBC News on Sunday afternoons a few years ago, I am ashamed to say I thought he wasn't trying very hard. Then I realised he was over 70 and his day job was the Hillsborough Independant Panel, for which work alone he deserves to be remembered even without the journalism.

 

[SteveP29]

We grow up with presenters like Peter and when they die it's like losing a family member.

Agreed, Kenneth Kendall, Richard Whitmore, Richard Baker, Robert Dougall, Carol Barnes, Alastair Burnett, Sandy Gall from my childhood.
All except Sandy Gall now unfortunately gone

 

[Busaholic]

According to an obituary in the Times, he was shot in the legs as a reporter in Nigeria in 1968, and was going to be 'finished off' when Frederick Forsyth, then a freelance reporter, tackled the gunman and his resulting shot got deflected. It was an end to his roving reporter days, though. He also worked as a bus conductor in Liverpool in early days.