Clive Myrie’s deep, sonorous voice is familiar across the UK, but it’s usually breaking news, investigating injustices or reporting live from a war zone. You will also have spotted him at the 2023 BBC Proms – while during the summer of 2024 he will be more busy with General Election coverage.
Who is Clive Myrie?
Clive Myrie is a BBC journalist, newsreader and presenter, who also presents the quiz show Mastermind. He was also part of the 2021 BBC Proms presenting team alongside Clara Amfo and Anna Lapwood, and returned to present the 2023 BBC Proms. He will soon be on our screens presenting the BBC’s 2024 General Election coverage with Laura Kuenssberg.
Clive has worked for the BBC almost exclusively throughout his career as a journalist and broadcaster. He started out in BBC local news in Bristol before he served as a foreign correspondent in Japan, America, France and Africa. Next, Clive became the BBC’s Europe correspondent based in Brussels. In 2009, he became a presenter on the BBC News Channel, a segue to becoming one of the BBC’s leading newsreaders.
As well as reading the news, Myrie has presented documentaries and reports on the Rohingya refugee crisis, the Mozambique floods and the Kathmandu earthquake. At the start of 2022, he became one of the lead anchors reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Myrie joined the presenting line-up for the BBC Proms in 2021, the same year he became the new presenter of BBC’s iconic quiz show Mastermind.
Is Clive Myrie a musician?
Clive Myrie learnt the violin and trumpet as a teenager in his youth orchestra, and has spoken about performing music by Schubert and Musorgsky .
Clive Myrie is a big jazz fan. He joined the Proms line-up in 2021 to present the BBC’s TV coverage of the Prom with saxophonist Nubya Garcia.
Clive previously hosted a ten-part series on Jazz FM exploring the last 100 years of jazz music-making.
He is also a big lover of opera.
Which 2023 BBC Proms did Clive Myrie present?
Clive presented the 2023 First Night of the Proms year live from the Royal Albert Hall. The programme featured Sibelius’s Finlandia and Snöfrid, plus Grieg‘s Piano Concerto in A minor and Britten‘s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. We also heard the world premiere of a new work by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.
Performers included pianist Paul Lewis, the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and conductor (and 2023 BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year) Dalia Stasevska.
Clive was joined in the presenting lineup by Katie Derham, who returns to present the 2024 BBC Proms.
Did you know?
Clive also presented one of the Awards at the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Awards. Here he is presenting the Recording of the Year to Rosenna East, managing director of Sinfonia of London, for the album of orchestral works by Delius, Elgar, Howells and Vaughan Williams, performed by the Sinfonia and their conductor John Wilson.
Check out the full schedule for the 2024 BBC Proms here.