She was 74. He was an engaging, authoritative and sometimes mischievous broadcaster, who commanded the respect and love of his colleagues and the public alike.

Ever light-hearted, he named his dog after Andrew Gilligan, the Today journalist whose report on the Iraq dossier sparked the confrontation between the BBC and the government, and the eventual exit of Dyke. He was 52. He made a brief foray into the commercial sector, joining the newly formed Radio Hallam, in Sheffield, in 1974, but swiftly returned to the BBC. So, so sad about Peter Donaldson.

He will be hugely missed.”, Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio and former Controller of Radio 4, added: “Peter was one of the great voices of Radio 4. Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com, The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star Jamie Angus, current editor of the Today programme, tweeted in tribute: “He was quite simply the voice of Radio 4 for a generation.”, Peter Donaldson has died. Loved cricket. Peter Donaldson (27 October 1934 – 6 September 2002) was a British economist, academic, author, and radio and television broadcaster. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Carey Lander, the musician and member of the Scottish indie pop band Camera Obscura, died of cancer on 11 October, aged 33.

He was 40 years old. He returned to Britain to attend Woolverstone Hall, a state boarding school near Ipswich, Suffolk.

This was a key to his success: “Newsreading takes a lot of practice, one needs a lot of wind. He would sit with his script at the Today studio table alongside the presenters and guests, often in shirt sleeves, always with a tie. His death was announced on 9 October. She wrote 32 books, all of which were best-sellers. His broadcasting career began in 1968 when his father, who was still living in Cyprus, heard of a vacancy for announcers with the British Forces Broadcasting Services. Glasgow-born session drummer who sat in for Beatles drummer Ringo Starr on the Fab Four’s debut single Love Me Do. The broadcaster and former BBC Radio 4 newsreader, Peter Donaldson, has died aged 70 from cancer.

His favourite slip was calling the White House Lawn the “White Horse Lawn” (after his local pub, he said). This year would have marked two silver anniversaries in his life: his marriage to actor Sheila McCarthy and his quarter-century of service to the festival. The two highest peaks of a memorable career are generally regarded to be his performance as Jamie in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which was later made into a film and earned him a 1996 Genie Award, and his virtuoso work in the 2004 production Timon of Athens, where he brought a hard, cold brilliance to the title role. Donaldson, who worked for the armed forces radio station BFBS before joining the BBC in … The former Formula One driver Justin Wilson died on 24 August a day after suffering serious head injuries when struck by debris during an IndyCar race.