Brian Widlake (???-2017)
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was a British journalist, broadcaster and presenter,
Brian Widlake served initially as a cadet before his promotion to 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Hampshire Regiment on 4th November 1950.
He 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. 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. He then transferred to LBC's hour-long Midday News programme.
Widlake conducted Nelson Mandela's first ever televised interview in 1961. At the time, Mandela was on the run from the South African police. He also became well known for co-presenting The Money Programme on BBC 2 in the early 1980s with Valerie Singleton.
He became the stepfather of the sports journalist, TV presenter and former cricketer Mark Nicholas following his marriage to the actress Anne Nicholas in 1989.
Widlake's death following a short illness aged 85 was announced on The World At One (BBC Radio 4) on 2 January 2017.
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