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Vincent Kane
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He has been chairman of the Wales Quality Centre, the International Festival of Musical Theatre and the Cardiff Initiative. Kane is best known for his work as a presenter and interviewer with the British Broadcasting Corporation, with whom he worked for almost 36 years. He presented television programmes such as Wales Today, Week In Week Out and on radio in Good Morning Wales and Meet Foreign Lunch (British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Wales).
He has been called "the Jeremy Paxman of Wales" because of his searching interview techniques, though he was already a well-known figure in Wales before Paxman made his name on national television
Kane began as a reporter on Wales Today in 1962, and went on to become the first host of Week In Week Out in 1964, presenting the weekly current affairs programme. He returned to host Wales Today from 1986 to 1993, and eventually left British Broadcasting Corporation Wales in 1998.
In June 1988 Kane was awarded the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for "services to Broadcasting in Wales". Kane founded the Wales Quality Centre and, almost 30 years later, retired from the role of chairman in December 2012.
He has in later life been spending the majority of his time living in Cyprus.
