From 1990 to 1994 he was the Business Correspondent of the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4, covering stories including Black Wednesday, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal and the death of Robert Maxwell.
His films included reports on the economic impact of AIDS in Africa,[2] the aftermath of war in Kosovo,[3] the business of mapping the human genome[4] and an investigation into the role of investment banks in creating the internet share bubble.
[11] He presented a daily account of developments in the UK's credit crunch on PM with Eddie Mair, entitled Upshares Downshares, a pun on the name of the television drama series Upstairs Downstairs.
[13] On 17 February 2011, Blythe announced that he would be leaving the BBC to become executive director of Communications at the Bank of England, replacing fellow ex-BBC journalist Jenny Scott.
[14] In a tongue-in-cheek homage to Nils Blythe the PM programme took to editing together and broadcasting all he said at each Bank of England Quarterly Inflation Report press conference.