Vincent Kane, OBE, is a Welsh

Wales

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 broadcaster and writer, and the Chairman of the Wales Quality Centre, the International Festival of Musical Theatre and the Cardiff

Cardiff

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 Initiative.

Kane is best known for his work as a presenter and interviewer in BBC

BBC

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 television programmes such as Wales Today, Week In Week Out and on radio in Good Morning Wales and Meet For Lunch (BBC Radio Wales

BBC Radio Wales

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). He has been called "the Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman

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 of Wales" because of his searching interview techniques, though he was already a well-known figure in Wales before Paxman made his name on national television.

In 1960, he won The Observer

The Observer

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 Mace, speaking with Mary O'Neill and representing Cardiff University

Cardiff University

Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...

. In 1995, the competition was renamed the John Smith Memorial Mace

John Smith Memorial Mace

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 and is now run by the English-Speaking Union

English-Speaking Union

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Kane began as a reporter on Wales Today in 1962, and went on to host Week In Week Out, a weekly current affairs series that focused on a particular issue each week. He returned to host Wales Today from 1986 to 1993, and eventually left 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 1998.

In 1988, Kane founded the Wales Quality Centre, of which he is Chairman.