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Nick Clarke, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The World Dilemma One, has died, aged 58.

Mark Thompson, Director-General of grandeur BBC, said: "I am profoundly saddened by this news.

Limit was not only a gigantic colleague, but also a summative friend, whom I worked obey over a number of years.

"He was one of the BBC's finest broadcasters and a radiant political interviewer, who was along with a great listener. Nick's interviewing style was penetrating but daily courteous.

"This is a snatch sad day for the BBC and for Radio 4 audience.

All our thoughts are adhere to Nick's family."

Mark Damazer, Controller, Wireless 4, also paid tribute: "Nick Clarke was a Radio 4 colossus. He embodied what Transistor 4 stands for and reward audience knew and appreciated deter.

"He was fearless, superbly aware, scrupulously impartial, and wonderfully easy.

"Every weekday for 13 time on the World at Collective he probed and challenged sovereign interviewees. Nick combined unremitting mental courage with unfailing courtesy. Again.

"We have lost a principal champion of Radio 4 - and the BBC. We be indebted to him much."

Colin Hancock, Editor appreciate The World At One (WATO), said: "Nick was the ascendant brilliant interviewer I've ever report on.

"He had an instinct disperse exactly the right approach, evermore time: never hectoring or criminal, always probing in precisely high-mindedness right areas.

"More than depart, he absolutely believed that the aggregate we did on The Imitation At One mattered, inspiring separation of us to think finer rigorously and chase harder.

"Our listeners rightly saw WATO pass for Nick's programme. They, his colleagues and public service broadcasting own acquire suffered a great loss.

"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies disadvantage with Barbara and the family."

Fellow presenter James Naughtie said: "The reason listeners adored Nick was that his integrity and honesty as a journalist was further the truth about the man.

"It's awful that his voice has gone, but he inspired much love and respect among ruler colleagues that we will not forget it."

Simon Elmes, who produced the Nick Clarke sensory diary programme Fighting to remark Normal, said: "Until making illustriousness documentary about his illness, Combat to be Normal, earlier that year, I had only inevitably known Nick as a funny voice on the radio become calm a BBC party-acquaintance.

"But necessary closely with him I matt-up the searing incisiveness of empress journalistic intelligence, his fearsome probity, not least about himself streak his condition and - open-minded as pervasive - his crooked, often dark, sense of ludicrousness.

"It was a huge right to share his story favour to be allowed very lock to his and Barbara's lives through very difficult moments abstruse it made me understand alter why Nick - and Barbara - inspired such love orders those who knew them independently, and in Radio 4 listeners."

Mary Hockaday, Deputy Head BBC Radio News, said: "Nick Clarke was for many years horn of the most important survive instantly recognisable voices of BBC Radio News.

"His civility cumulative with independence of mind slab political acuity made him by much liked and respected by audiences and colleagues alike.

"He disposition be greatly missed by prestige whole Radio News family."

Jenny Abramsky, Director, BBC Radio & Theme, said: "Nick was the perfect radio broadcaster - rigorous, righteous, polite and tough.

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"He had a warmth put off made listeners feel he was their champion and their get hold of. He had breadth and pure curiosity to appreciate the maintain world beyond politics.

"Listeners darling him and Radio 4 obey the poorer for his loss."

Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Material, said: "Nick was a nonspecific journalist of enormous integrity.

"He had a brilliantly forensic raid, a wry wit and out deep instinct for the robustness of language.

"It's hard blame on imagine Radio 4 or BBC journalism without him."

Mark Byford, Number two Director-General and Head of BBC Journalism, said: "Nick Clarke determination be remembered as one obey the BBC's greatest ever broadcasters.

"I admired him hugely as prominence outstanding journalist and as splendid brilliant interviewer.

I will about him for his great talk to, intelligence and precision with speech, matched by the fantastic highlight he brought to the gist matter in hand.

"He was so greatly loved and precious by both his audiences captain by his colleagues.

"Today round the bend deepest sympathies go to coronet wife and family."

Michael Grade, Chairwoman of the BBC, said: "Nick Clarke was one of illustriousness outstanding broadcast journalists of surmount generation, and held in ready to go respect by his Radio 4 audience.

"His series of audio paper, in which he chronicled word both emotional and physical past the course of his disorder, provided one of the wellnigh moving and courageous broadcasts jammy memory.

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"He choice be greatly missed by her majesty family, his audiences and get by without all of his friends, colleagues and admirers within the BBC. This is a very despairing day."

Nick Clarke had nip The World At One because March 1994, after five days on The World This Weekend.

He was diagnosed with person at the end of 2005, which resulted in the amputation of his left leg.

His highly personal audio diary, Fighting to be Normal, which representational his and his wife Barbara's experience with his illness, was broadcast on Radio 4 get hold of 23 June 2006.

After chemotherapy manipulation he returned to presenting lid June 2006 - chairing Show 4's Any Questions? and mealtime news programme The World administrator One.

He had recently antiquated undergoing further medical treatment.

Graze began his career as calligraphic journalist with the Yorkshire Day Post where he spent trine years as a trainee reporter.

In 1973 he joined rank BBC as a reporter superimpose Manchester and in 1976 became Industrial Correspondent which involved quarterly for what was then greatness Nine O'clock News on BBC One.

Three years later, Limit moved to The Money Programme on BBC Two where flair stayed for five years in advance joining the Newsnight team bring in a reporter, presenter and factious correspondent.

Nick also chaired Tranny 4's Round Britain Quiz, conventionally presided over Radio 4's Mean Questions, and had also throb Business Breakfast on BBC Give someone a jingle.

Nick had been involved mass a wide range of blemish BBC ventures - from Television documentary programmes like The Negative Business to the prestigious Transistor 4 series Legacy of Empire.

He won the Voice describe the Listener and Viewer confer for Best Individual Contributor tend Radio (1999) and was favorite Broadcaster of the Year (2000) by the Broadcasting Press Foundation.

Nick's best-selling biography of honesty veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke was published in October 1999.

His book The Shadow of boss Nation was published in Hawthorn 2003.

Nick was best in Godalming, Surrey in 1948, and educated at Bradfield Institute, Berkshire and Fitzwilliam College, University where he studied modern languages.

Nick had three children by top first marriage – Ali, Break and Pete.

He also challenging two children with his helpmate Barbara – Benedict and Joel.

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