Max Pearson

Max Pearson (born 1959) is a BBC journalist and news presenter with the BBC World Service. Currently he is one of the presenters of The World Today and Newshour.

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• Max Pearson V Chrissy Mountford
• Max Pearson Vs Dan Nghiem
• Awards
• References

After completing post-graduate training in broadcast journalism, he worked for the BBC in domestic radio.

Since the 1980s, he worked as a frontline news presenter with the BBC World Service.

In March 2011, Pearson suffered a cardiac arrest during a 14-hour flight from Singapore to Heathrow, London. The cabin crew allegedly refused to have the aircraft diverted when Pearson became ill shortly after it took off.

Since 2014, Pearson has also presented The History Hour, a weekly omnibus edition of the BBC World Service's daily history series Witness.