A year ago, Huw Edwards’s future at the BBC looked uncertain. About to turn 61, he had been the main anchor of its News at Ten since 2003, already an eternity in television terms. And now there were other stars in the firmament, not least Clive Myrie, who had distinguished himself in the early months of the Ukraine war, although Myrie himself insisted he preferred a life divided between the studio and the road. There was speculation that the BBC’s top executives — known in W1A as the Time Lords — were pondering change. As Edwards told me when I interviewed him in the summer of 2020, the BBC “can be a treacherous place to be sometimes”.
But perhaps Edwards was up for a change.
