Steve hewlett bbc biography

Large and crumpled in appearance, looking askance at the world through badly treated glasses, Steve resembled a character from the pages of Michael Frayn.

It was no surprise to learn than Steve was a rugby player.

His distinctive Midlands’ tones were invariably part of the background noise to any media event worth attending.

At Cambridge or Edinburgh, Steve’s presence was de rigour – whether talking, beer in hand, until past midnight in the bar or up on stage interviewing, say, Elisabeth Murdoch or David Abraham.

The public knew him as the presenter of Radio 4’s Media Show and latterly for describing in moving detail the progress of his own cancer that finally killed him on February 20.

On some days when a big media story was breaking it seemed as if there were three, four or even six or seven Steve Hewletts.

He’d be on Today at breakfast time and there again as a pundit on the lunchtime news.

As the day’s news cycle drew to a close Steve wou