Nigel Brian Windsor Widlake was a British journalist, broadcaster and presenter.
10 Facts About Brian Widlake
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Brian Widlake served initially as a cadet before his promotion to 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Hampshire Regiment on 4 November 1950.
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Brian Widlake worked as a reporter for ITN in the 1960s, and was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's news magazine programmes The World at One and PM during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Brian Widlake joined London's news and talk radio station LBC to present a breakfast programme on LBC Crown FM, later LBC NewsTalk 97.3 in 1989.
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Brian Widlake then transferred to LBC's hour-long Midday News programme.
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Brian Widlake conducted Nelson Mandela's first ever televised interview in 1961.
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Brian Widlake became well known for co-presenting The Money Programme on BBC 2 in the early 1980s with Valerie Singleton.
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Brian Widlake died, following a short illness, at home in Wiltshire on 2 January 2017, at the age of 85.
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Brian Widlake became the stepfather of the sports journalist, TV presenter and former cricketer Mark Nicholas, following his marriage to the actress Anne Nicholas in 1989.
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Brian Widlake had one daughter and one son, as well as one stepdaughter and two stepsons.