Dan began his broadcasting career with Cardiff’s short-lived CBC Radio. He joined the BBC in 1974 as a sound engineer for radio news in Broadcasting House. He was a BBC TV network announcer in the mid to late-1970s and early 1980s.
He moved back to Wales to present a morning magazine programme and learnt Welsh on-air. In 1982, he presented a nightly phone-in on LBC Radio.
By the mid-1980s, he was working for satellite broadcasters on new pan-European news projects, and was the first news editor for Scansat TV3, the first Scandinavian commercial channel.
Dan and his wife, camera operator Siân, worked as a freelance news team around the globe from 1988 to 1995 covering wars and revolutions. In 1988, he moved to Hungary and reported on liberation and street protest in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Albania and the former Soviet Union. Dan also reported from conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia, Baghdad during the first Gulf War, and Afghanistan.
Since returning to the UK, Dan has worked for BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 as a reporter and presenter. He presented BBC Radio 4’s PM programme, Saturday PM (1999 – 2002), One Planet and Reporting Religion. programme. In 2003, he became the main presenter of World Update on the BBC World Service.
Correspondence
Paul R. Jackson corresponded with Dan in August 2017 and asked how he had moved to London Presentation: “I was on attachment from the Control Room as an announcer, I think in 1977, and then went freelance from 1978. I was hired by Radio Wales in September 1979 on a contract.”
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I remember listening to him on LBC when I just came to London as a student at Kings College in the Strand. I was at International Hall in Brunswick Square. I thought he was a great presenter on the Station.