Career
Currently he is one of the presenters of The World Today and Newshour. After completing post-graduate training in broadcast journalism, he worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in domestic radio. Since the 1980s, he worked as a frontline news presenter with the British Broadcasting Corporation 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 official
