Peter Horrocks
Head of Current Affairs, BBC
Programmers Show & Tell: Current Affairs

Peter Horrocks joined the BBC in October 1981 as a news trainee. He went on to work for Newsnight as an assistant producer and then producer.

After working as a senior producer, intake editor and output editor on Breakfast Time (now Breakfast News), he became deputy editor of Panorama in 1988.

In 1990, Peter was appointed editor of the BBC's television election night results programme. He also edited BBC TV's coverage of the Budget, by-elections and local elections. Peter edited the 1994 European Election results programme and the General Election results programme in May 1997.

In May 1992, Peter was appointed editor of BBC TWO's social affairs programme, Public Eye, a position he held until January 1994 when he launched Here And Now, the BBC's popular current affairs magazine programme.

Peter became editor of Newsnight in April 1994 and left to take up the position of editor, Panorama in December 1997.

He was appointed Head of Current Affairs in June 2000. Since then he has been executive producer of Brits, True Spies, Smallpox 2002, The Day Britain Stopped, Dirty War and The Power Of Nightmares.

Peter Horrocks was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge where he gained a double first class degree in History. He was born in 1959.