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Jon Brady

Dundee broadcaster Eddie Mair to retire after 40 years of reporting

Dundee -born journalist and broadcaster Eddie Mair is to retire later this year, he has announced.

The broadcaster joined commercial talk radio station LBC in 2018 after 30 years at the BBC.

Mair said the coronavirus pandemic had given him time to have "a rethink" about life.

In a statement, he said: “My only regret about LBC is not joining sooner. I’m having a ball and all things being equal would probably carry on forever.

"They love radio at [LBC broadcaster] Global and support it. But the one thing I don’t have on my side is time.

"Like many others, during Covid I had a rethink about life and in the summer of 2020 told my bosses and close friends and colleagues about my plans to leave.

Eddie Mair says he wants "a little time for me before I croak" (Ian West/PA Wire)

"I’ve been at this for 40 years and I want to have a little time for me before I croak.

"So I will carry on as a devoted LBC listener but pass things on to someone new and I wish them all the best."

Mair started his radio career at Dundee's Radio Tay, where he hosted the breakfast show, weekly phone-ins and news programmes.

He then joined the BBC in 1987, where he rose through the ranks to become a presenter on Good Morning Scotland and Reporting Scotland.

Mair later moved to Radio 4 and 5 Live before taking up residency on the BBC's flagship evening news radio show PM.

In one memorable interview in 2013 the presenter, substituting for Andrew Marr on his Sunday politics show on BBC One, cornered then-Mayor of London Boris Johnson with questions about his reputation.

Mair famously called Boris Johnson a "nasty piece of work" in a TV interview (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire)

Noting that Johnson had made up quotes in an article when he was a Times journalist and had lied to his Tory bosses about an affair, Mair memorably quipped: "You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?"

He then moved to LBC in 2018.

Tom Cheal, managing director of the station, said the team would miss Eddie "hugely".

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