Robert Hall is a Special Correspondent for the BBC, covering some of the major stories Hall has built a good reputation.
As well as being a Correspondent, since 2009 he has been a Relief Presenter of the BBC News Channel, mainly covering the weekend shift with Annita McVeigh

Annita McVeigh

Annita McVeigh is a newsreader on the BBC's 24 hour channel BBC News.-Early life:McVeigh completed the NUJ National Council for the Training of Journalists Pre-entry course at the Belfast College of Further and Higher Education 1991-1992...

. He had previously worked at ITN and started his broadcast career at Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

 in 1981 as a reporter on the evening news programme Calendar

Calendar (TV series)

Calendar is a weekday news and information program that aired in the United States on CBS Television from 1961 to 1963.Harry Reasoner and Mary Fickett co-hosted the program. Each show began with Reasoner giving a summary of the latest news and then introducing the topic for the day, which was...

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Education

Hall was educated at the independent Radley College

Radley College

Radley College , founded in 1847, is a British independent school for boys on the edge of the English village of Radley, near to the market town of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, and has become a well-established boarding school...

 and the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

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