Peter Sissons is one of British television's most experienced news presenters. During a career spanning 25 years at ITN and 20 at the BBC he presented almost every network news programme on terrestrial television.
He has presented a host of special programmes marking major events, succeeded Sir Robin Day as presenter of the BBC's flagship discussion programme, Question Time, and often deputised for Sir David Frost on Breakfast with Frost.
He has won the "Best Front of Camera Performer" Award given by the Broadcasting Press Guild and the Royal Television Society's prestigious "Judges' Award" for his work on Channel Four News. While Peter presented Channel 4 News the programme won an unprecented seven consecutive BAFTA awards.
He now concentrates on corporate work, being recognised as one of the safest pair of hands on the conference platform.
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Peter Sissons is one of British television's most experienced news presenters. During a career spanning 25 years at ITN and 20 at the BBC he presented almost every network news programme on terrestrial television.
He has presented a host of special programmes marking major events, succeeded Sir Robin Day as presenter of the BBC's flagship discussion programme, Question Time, and often deputised for Sir David Frost on Breakfast with Frost.
He now concentrates on corporate work, being recognised as one of the safest pair of hands on the conference platform.
Recent testimonials include:
Network Rail internal training video
The client has been hugely complementary all round. Peter’s contribution as presenter provided the necessary gravitas we were looking for and reflected the seriousness of the subject matter. He was charming, genuinely interested in the subject matter ad his professionalism and experience shone through. A real pleasure to work with.
Motor Transport Awards
Peter was hailed as the perfect host for the evening. A difficult audience was skillfully managed and the pace kept consistent throughout the awards presentation. The result being tremendous feedback from the guests and the evening heralded as a great success.
Price Waterhouse Budget Evening Event
I would like to thank you for your major contribution to our Budget evening event. Having you in the platform made us all feel that much more confident the show would go well and it did.
Bulchler Phillips Chartered Accountants Event
Once again, thank you for participating in our “Question Time” and making the event such a success.
Chairing the DYMYST International Smokefreemovies Conference
It went fabulously. Peter is so highly skilled and he handled everything perfectly and was an absolute joy to work with and very good company.