But unlike Marr, who has spoken of wanting to find his voice again after years of studied impartiality, he doesn’t see the future as one in which he will be unleashed.
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Snow thinks this is an entirely good thing it’s possible that he has been guilty of the TV equivalent of bed-blocking. In the world of TV news, it’s all change, several big beasts now on the move: at Sky, Adam Boulton is going Andrew Marr has announced that he is to leave the BBC. I don’t feel any older than I did that last time I had children, 35 or more years ago, and there is a naughty side to it, which is that you’re not quite expected to do so much as you absolutely had to last time.” This country’s brilliance in publishing and in television is that they’re well regulated He doesn’t wake up until the next morning.” Was he surprised, at the age of 74, to find himself a father again? “Well, I knew it was coming…” He laughs. My wife has developed a regime in which he goes to sleep at six o’clock for a couple of hours, and then he gets up, so that at 10, when we’re going to bed, he goes, too.
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Isn’t that amazing?” He and his wife, the epidemiologist Precious Lunga, had a baby, born by surrogate, earlier this year. “And I’ve the compensation of a young son. It is, he says, an inordinately long time.
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I don’t think I’ll be able to switch off completely from that.”įour decades in front of the camera. The main thing is not being able to help people understand a moment – a new moment. But it’s so difficult to analyse what you do, and what effect not doing it will have. I’ll make sure there are plenty of soft furnishings to collapse into. It has been so extremely enjoyable.” Will he be able to function without the tick and tock of deadlines? Is there a danger he might just… collapse? He smiles. Not being able to do that… it’s part of your whole life. To be paid to interrogate the news to have so much freedom to be able to do something every day about what you learn is going on when you first wake up. “They just sort of said we should probably think about it. “I think it’s very difficult to adjust to,” he says, his voice dimmed just a little of its usual enthusiasm. At the end of this year, Snow will leave ITN after 45 years – he has been the main presenter of Channel 4 News, which ITN produces, since 1989 – and though this was announced last April, I’m not sure he is yet fully resigned to the prospect of retirement. I can’t explain, let alone justify, the minder, but I can hazard a guess at the cause of the restlessness. Will she be sitting in on our interview? Apparently, she will, and every so often, he will suddenly address a remark to her, rather than to me, his eyes sliding beyond my shoulder to where she sits on a sofa. Second, that it is very strange indeed that a journalist of his experience and standing should turn up with a minder. First, there is his restlessness he needs settling. I booked it a long time ago.” His hand goes to his head, and then to the knot of his tie, which he waggles a bit before sitting down. “Yes, I am,” he says, though he can’t tell me what will be on the programme uncharacteristically, he missed the meeting. Is he presenting Channel 4 News tonight? The crisp shirt and rainbow tie suggest that he is. As I sit and watch and wait, only rarely does a human being cross the expanse of grey carpet.īut then Jon Snow appears, looking like a giant kingfisher in his suit of teal corduroy, and I cheer up a bit. The building brings to mind some sleek new hotel in a city unpopular with business travellers.
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Many people, if not most, still seem to be working from home. At ITV’s headquarters in London, the hush is almost eerie. But in the age of Covid, things have, it seems, moved up a notch. E ven before the pandemic, I used to find TV newsrooms, on the rare occasions I had cause to visit them, anticlimactic: hoping for (if not exactly expecting) the adrenalised mayhem of Network or Drop the Dead Donkey, their preternatural quietness always bemused me.