Broadcaster and popular stalwart of Radio 4’s Today programme whose dismissal in 1996 infuriated listenersFor any contributor to Radio 4’s Today programme in the mid-1980s onwards, as I was occasionally, the sight of the well-upholstered, chubby-cheeked Peter Hobday smiling a welcome as he leaned over his script towards the microphone was reassuring. So was his warm voice and gentle humour for millions of listeners.
Hobday, who has died aged 82, was one of the roster of around five presenters for 14 years from 1982, brought in originally to help buttress the
BBC radio programme just before breakfast television started the following year.