Hugh Pym

He was the producer of Business Daily at Channel 4 from 1987 to 1988, a correspondent with ITN from 1988 to 1998,[3] and a freelance broadcaster with Sky Television from 1999 to 2000.

[3] Pym was the recipient of the 2020 British Journalism Review Charles Wheeler award in recognition of his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[3] On 8 December, Pym tweeted that the second person to get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was a man named William Shakespeare from Warwickshire.

The tweet went viral due to the man's name and home county being the same as that of the renowned playwright William Shakespeare.

[4] In the 2001 general election Pym stood as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in the North Wiltshire constituency.

Pym (left) in 2013.