PERSON: Stephen Sackur

Times Radio

Presenter

Stephen John Sackur (born 9 January 1964) is an English journalist. He is one of the presenters of The Times at One on Times Radio. Previously, he presented HARDtalk, a current affairs interview programme on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. He was also the main Friday presenter of GMT on BBC World News. For 15 years, he was a BBC foreign correspondent.

Sackur was born and grew up in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. His father was a “Guardian-reading farmer”. Sackur was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Spilsby, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA honours degree in history, and then joined Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government as a Henry Fellow.

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