Robin Lustig to quit BBC at year-end

Robin Lustig (photo)​, a Reuters correspondent in London, Madrid, Paris and Rome in the 1970s, is stepping down from presenting news programmes for the BBC.

Lustig, 64, who has anchored news programmes on the BBC World Service and flagship evening show The World Tonight on Radio 4 since 1989, said he would leave the BBC at the end of the year.

After Reuters Lustig worked for The Observer for 12 years as home affairs editor, Middle East correspondent and assistant editor.

He was not retiring, he said, but going back to his first love of reporting from the field and “getting mud on my boots”. "I think now is a good time for me to bow out and see if I'm still capable of doing anything else." ■