Education
Lowe was educated at Dragon School in Oxford, Haileybury College, and at Brasenose College, Oxford.
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Lowe was educated at Dragon School in Oxford, Haileybury College, and at Brasenose College, Oxford.
After graduation in 1972, Lowe intended to train as a teacher. He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1972 on the same day as Jeremy Paxman under the graduate journalist programme. He worked as a political correspondent at Westminster and then spent time as a journalist in Northern Ireland during the worst of what became known as The Troubles.
Later his work for the British Broadcasting Corporation took him as far afield as Ethiopia and Argentina.
From the mid-1990s he was a newsreader on British Broadcasting Corporation One bulletins, also becoming a frequent presenter on radio programmes such as Prime Minister. His final work for the British Broadcasting Corporation until his retirement in 2009 saw him as presented on the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel on Fridays between 7pm and 10pm, and Saturdays and Sundays between 7pm and 12 midnight. His co-presenters included Anita McVeigh and Joanna Gosling.
Lowe was replaced in April 2009 by Clive Myrie.