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Published: Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 12:26 PM


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.