Patrick Hannan MBE

MBE

MBE can stand for:* Mail Boxes Etc.* Management by exception* Master of Bioethics* Master of Bioscience Enterprise* Master of Business Engineering* Master of Business Economics* Mean Biased Error...

(26 September 1941

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 – 11 October 2009

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) was a Welsh

Wales

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 political journalist, author

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 and television and radio presenter

Presenter

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.

The son of an Irish

Ireland

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 doctor

Physician

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 who migrated to Wales in the 1930s, he was born and raised in Aberaman

Aberaman

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, near Aberdare

Aberdare

Aberdare is an industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Dare and Cynon. The population at the census was 31,705...

 in South Wales

South Wales

South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...

. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School

Cowbridge Grammar School

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, where Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

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 was a fellow pupil; and at Aberystwyth University, where he first entered journalism writing for the college newspaper, The Courier.

He joined the graduate training scheme at Western Mail in the mid-1960s, becoming industrial editor, before joining BBC Wales

BBC Wales

BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. Based at Broadcasting House in the Llandaff area of Cardiff, it directly employs over 1200 people, and produces a broad range of television, radio and online services in both the Welsh and English languages.Outside...

 in 1970. He became a presenter of daily regional news programme Wales Today. For thirteen years he was the BBC's political correspondent in Wales, and had a weekly series on BBC Radio Wales

BBC Radio Wales

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. He broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 4

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, presenting the political and discussion programmes, Out of Order and Tea Junction.

He was well known as one half of the Welsh team in the popular Round Britain Quiz

Round Britain Quiz

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, and for the fifth time in ten years with his colleague Peter Stead

Peter Stead (writer)

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 had won the 2009 competition. He produced documentary programmes for BBC2, BBC Wales

BBC Wales

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 and HTV

HTV

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. He wrote four books, and edited two.

Awarded an MBE

MBE

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 in 1994 for services to broadcasting, he was an honorary fellow of Cardiff University

Cardiff University

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 and Aberystwyth University.

He married Menna Richards

Menna Richards

Menna Richards OBE was the Controller of BBC Wales from February 2000 to February 2011.Her start in broadcasting was as a reporter and producer for HTV Wales in the current affairs department...

, now director of BBC Wales, in 1985. He had two sons and a daughter from his first marriage. He died after a short illness.

Publications

• The Welsh Illusion (1999)
• Wales Off Message (2000)
• 2001 A Year in Wales (2001)
• When Arthur Met Maggie (2006)
• A Useful Fiction: Adventures in British Democracy (2009)

External links

• Bio at BBC Radio Wales
  BBC Radio Wales
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• BBC Obituary
• Obituary at the Daily Telegraph