AWARDS PRESENTER
Paddy O’Connell is a familiar face to BBC World viewers, but he is far better
known to British audiences as presenter of Radio 4’s Sunday morning show,
Broadcasting House.
BH has an altogether lighter approach than the weekday Today programme.
Thanks to Paddy’s characteristic humour and marvellous turn of phrase, it attracts
two million listeners to a diet of stories behind the headlines - like that of the
British company exporting tandoori ovens to India.
In an earlier life Paddy was a Wall Street hack and BBC North America
Correspondent. He has interviewed the big cheeses on Capitol Hill, played Xbox
with Bill Gates and narrowly missed becoming a grim statistic of 9/11 only by
arriving late for a meeting that day at the World Trade Center. Instead he found
himself anchoring BBC coverage.
Aside from broadcast duties, which occasionally include PM and The One Show,
Paddy often gives lectures to wealthy Americans enjoying cultural tours of Britain.
He has also been known to perform a one-man show charting the history of
Eurovision, My Semi Heaven.
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