Peter Allen Biography
Peter Allen is an English radio broadcaster with 40 years of experience in journalism. He has been with BBC Radio 5 Live since its inception in 1994, and he co-hosted the Drive programme for 16 years, from 1998 to 2014.
How old is Peter Allen? – Age
He is 78 years old as of 4 February 2024. He was born in 1946 in Rochford, Essex, England. His real name is Peter Edwin Allen.
Peter Allen Family – Education
Allen went to the exclusive Brentwood School. At the age of 18, he dropped out of school and began working for his local newspaper. He immigrated to Australia and worked for the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
Peter Allen Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $7 million.
Peter Allen Career
During the 1970s Allen changed to working in radio, joining Free Radio News, the recently sent off news administration for UK business radio. He at last turned into the organization’s political supervisor while working at Westminster. He likewise filled in as a moderator at its sister radio broadcast LBC, the London news and talk station. Allen then changed to TV and was ITN political reporter until 1992, when he was one of “a line of high-profile renunciations” following the organization’s financial plan cuts. He then, at that point, joined London News Organization.
On 1 Walk 1994, the BBC reported that Allen was to have its new Breakfast program on BBC Radio 5 Live. In 1997 Breakfast was stretched out by thirty minutes. Additionally in 1997, The Times depicted the “clever repartee” of Allen and co-moderator (and future hero) Jane Garvey as the best representation of the station’s tone, “well disposed, casual, lively, and tolerantly, not horribly socially sensitive”. Garvey portrays him as “the incredible Peter Allen who showed me a great deal about communicating, and, surprisingly, more about ice cream parlor”.
On 31 August 1997, Allen and James Naughtie facilitated the BBC Radio inclusion of the passing of Diana, Princess of Ribs which saw Radios 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live taking a solitary program. This inclusion won a Sony Grant for best news event. During 13 years cooperating at Five Live, following Breakfast with Drive, Allen and Garvey won six Sony Grants including the Gold honor for news telecaster of the year in 2002.
In 2007, papers refered to anonymous sources which said that Allen had been dismissed as John Humphrys’ substitution on BBC Radio 4’s Today program since he was not “Adequately rich” and didn’t have an Oxbridge foundation. A BBC representative answered “The explanation we are not remarking is that it is about whether somebody went for a task that may or not exist. Subsequently, we can’t actually get into it.”
He has been with the organization starting around 1994 and was the co-moderator of BBC Radio 5 Live’s Drive program for over 16 years, from September 1998 to October 2014. He additionally seats gatherings and hosts occasions and grant services, as well as proceeding as an after-supper speaker. In July 2014 the BBC reported that he was moving to a morning space for three days every week, supplanting Victoria Derbyshire who was leaving the station.
In August 2015, Allen introduced a live program from Hiroshima on the 70th commemoration of the dropping of the nuclear bomb, addressing a few overcomers of the assault and an American physicist who assisted with planning the bombs in the Manhattan Venture.
From November 2016, Allen co-facilitated a 5 Live Sunday night program with Jane Garvey. From January 2018 to September 2019 he co-facilitated a Sunday night program on similar station, Peter Allen and Caroline Barker, in which the moderators were to “dive into the characters behind the titles”.
