14 Facts About Philip Hayton

Philip Hayton was born on 2 November 1947 and is an English television news presenter, reporter and former international correspondent for BBC News.

Philip Hayton worked for the BBC from 1968 until 2005.

Philip Hayton was educated at Fyling Hall School, an independent school near Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire.

Philip Hayton began his broadcasting career as a pirate radio DJ on Radio 270, joining BBC Leeds in 1968.

Philip Hayton had a distinguished 37-year career at the BBC, reporting from Tehran, Iran as the 1979 Revolution took place, becoming a BBC correspondent in Washington, DC, and Southern Africa, the latter of which involved reporting on the war in Rhodesia, from 1980 to 1983.

Philip Hayton reported from Eritrea during the war with Ethiopia and from Beirut during the civil war in the 1980s, narrowly escaping injury when the car he had been travelling in was blown up by a land mine shortly after he had got out.

From 1988 onwards, Philip Hayton presented the BBC's One O'Clock News nationally, as well as becoming one of the main co-presenters of both the BBC's Six O'Clock News and the Nine O'Clock News programmes.

In 1989, Philip Hayton narrated Video 125's "Chiltern Take Two" drivers eye view video.

In September 2005, Philip Hayton resigned from BBC News 24 six months into a year's contract, citing differences with co-presenter Kate Silverton.

Philip Hayton merely cited "incompatibility" with Silverton as his reason and when his managers refused to move Silverton to another time slot he left.

Philip Hayton said that he left the BBC "without bitterness or rancour".

In retirement, from 2007 onwards Philip Hayton has been the regular host of Head2Head a BrightTALK internet broadcast for Skandia in which he holds court between two financial figures.

Philip Hayton is married to Thelma, and has a son, James, and a daughter, Julia.

Philip Hayton describes his interests as walking, sailing and the theatre.