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British journalist and newsreader (born 1946)

Michael Duncan Buerk (;^[1] born 18 February 1946) is a British journalist and newsreader.

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He presented BBC News from 1973 to 2002 and has been the host of BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze since 1990.^[2] He was also the presenter of BBC One's docudrama999 from 1992 to 2003. From 2017, Buerk also presented the TV programme Royal Recipes which ran for two series.

Early life

Buerk was born on 18 February 1946,^[3] in St.

Philomena's Nursing Home, Solihull. He moved to Canada as a young child before returning to the West Midlands after the failure of his mother's marriage, when Buerk was five.^[4] He attended Solihull School,^[5] an independent school in the West Midlands where he was a member of the Combined Cadet Force and represented the school on the sports field.

Buerk's hopes of a career in the Royal Air Force were dashed when he failed an eyesight test at the s Family:Michael Burke and Susan Webber (1) - Genealogy - WeRelate BIZUT