Shaun Ley
Shaun Ley | |
|---|---|
| Born | Shaun Dominic Ley 14 June 1969 |
| Education | Ilfracombe College London School of Economics |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, presenter |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Notable credit(s) | BBC News The World at One The World This Weekend Dateline London BBC Weekend News BBC News at Nine BBC News at Five |
Shaun Dominic Ley (born 14 June 1969 in Lynton, Devon[1]) is a British journalist and newsreader and a presenter of The World This Weekend and The World at One on BBC Radio 4. He also is the main Saturday lunchtime presenter of the BBC Weekend News and also regularly presents on the BBC News Channel.
Ley was educated at two state schools in Devon in south west England: at Lynton Primary School, in his hometown of Lynton, and at Ilfracombe College, in the seaside resort of Ilfracombe on the North Devon coast, followed by the London School of Economics, in central London.
After a stint as a schoolboy presenter on the short-lived That's Life! Junior in 1980, Ley joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1990, and later worked on the regional news programme Points West. He became Political Editor for the South East Cluster; based at BBC Elstree appearing regularly on the then regional news programme for London and the home counties Newsroom SouthEast, as well as on the clusters radio stations BBC GLR 94.9, BBC Three Counties Radio, and BBC Radios Kent, and Essex. The region was divided in two in 2001 to form BBC London and BBC South East Today. He then presented Around Westminster, before becoming a national political correspondent for the BBC in 2001. He began presenting The World This Weekend in 2005.[2]
Ley is a longtime fan of the BBC series Doctor Who and in 2011 he presented and narrated When Worlds Collide, a documentary accompanying the DVD release of The Happiness Patrol, which looked into the series' political and ideological influences over the years.
References
- ^ "Debrett's authorised biography". Debrett's. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 profile". BBC. Retrieved 2011-07-29.