Nigel Wrench
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Nigel Wrench (born 1960) is an English radio presenter, mainly for BBC Radio 4
Born in Birmingham, Wrench grew up in South Africa, where he began his journalistic career reporting on the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s. He joined the BBC as a reporter, and was at the prison gates when Nelson Mandela walked free. Wrench then became a roving reporter for the BBC, from locations including Jerusalem, St Petersburg and Bucharest.
Wrench returned to London in 2000, reporting for the Today program and hosting his own weekly Out This Week, a gay and lesbian weekly news show for which he won a Sony Radio Award. He won a New York Radio Award for his Radio 4 documentary Aids and Me, and also presents the Radio 4 program PM. [1]
Wrench is openly gay and publicly announced his status as HIV-positive in 1994. [2]
Wrench is currently not heard presenting or reporting on PM due to an allegation of raping another man at his home in Haringey, North London, in January 2007 . [3]
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