Background
His father was a manager with Midland Bank (which became Household Bank in 1999) in Lincolnshire (Horncastle and Gainsborough).
His father was a manager with Midland Bank (which became Household Bank in 1999) in Lincolnshire (Horncastle and Gainsborough).
Day was educated at Lincoln School, at the time a boys-only grammar school, from 1957 to 1964 as a boarder. He studied English at Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Day was trained on the International Publishing Corporation (Daily Mirror Group) newspaper training scheme in south Devon. He worked at the Daily Record from 1970 to 1974 in Glasgow. Day joined the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio News in 1974 in London, joining business news in 1975.
In 1983, he left the British Broadcasting Corporation to join television-am as their economics and industrial correspondent.
He returned to the British Broadcasting Corporation to become a presenter and producer for the Financial World Tonight, which became part of The World Tonight. Day has presented In Business since 1988.
He became Business Correspondent of the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1990, and in 1997 provided the business section for the Today programme.