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Confirmed Speakers

• Peter Day
  Peter Day has presented In Business since 1988. He also presents its sister programme Global Business on the BBC World Service every weekend. "This is a wonderful time to be reporting on the huge changes sweeping through the world of work," Day says. "When I started doing this 30 years ago, the pace of change was glacial. Now everyone is caught up with it." Peter Day went to Lincoln School and read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He worked on the Daily Record in Glasgow for four years before he joined the BBC radio newsroom in London in 1974. A year later he switched to business reporting, just as business news was jumping to the top of the news, with the fall and rise of the pound, huge takeovers, privatisation, and globalisation. After years of daily news, he is part of a team making business programmes for listeners who did not realise they were interested in business at all. The Times has described In Business as "the best business-related programme on TV or radio".The American new media commentator Jeff Jarvis has described Peter as "the best reporter on radio". Peter Day is married and has four children. He lives in Islington and is slowly learning to play the cello and ring church bells.