Milestones of peripatetic life through 70 years of broadcasting... Peter has had privileged access to events and dramas that have fashioned our contemporary world.

His book Being There explores subjects as diverse as the Titanic disaster, the drama of the birth of the first IVF babies in Britain and the USA, the execution of Ruth Ellis, the US space programme, the risks of nuclear energy and the green alternatives, the death of speed ace Donald Campbell, and the aftermath of his first "interview" with Her Majesty the Queen. He considers the lessons associated with each event.