John Humphrys

Don't miss this opportunity to see John Humphrys live as he reflects on his career and asks you the audience for your views on where the world is heading.

In 2019 John Humphrys left the Radio 4 Today programme after 32 years of forensically grilling figures in authority.

As a presenter, he inspires love and loathing in equal measure. The Observer’s television critic once wrote that if he ever found himself sitting next to Humphrys at a dinner party he would probably drive a fork through his hand.

The Tory politician Jonathan Aitken accused him of ‘poisoning the well of democratic debate’, a comment which prompted an outburst of support for Humphrys, with the Daily Mail describing him as ‘one of the most brilliant journalists in the country’.

This July, he returns - as opinionated as ever - for a new interactive show live at Richmond Theatre on the state of the BBC, the role of the media in politics and the health of our political system.

John Humphrys - Award-winning journalist who presented the Today programme since January 1987 – almost twice as long as any other presenter.

In his 50 years at the BBC he was also their youngest television foreign correspondent and served in Washington during the Watergate years and southern Africa during apartheid and the Rhodesian war.

He presented the Nine o’Clock news on BBC1 for six years and has also presented Panorama and On the Ropes on Radio 4. He has chaired Mastermind since 2003. He’s written eight books, including two on the English language and others on the dangers of intensive agriculture and the case for physician assisted suicide.