Patrick Hannan

Patrick Hannan MBE (26 September 1941 – 11 October 2009) was a Welsh political journalist, author and television and radio presenter. and at Aberystwyth University, where he first entered journalism writing for the college newspaper, The Courier.

He joined the graduate training scheme at Western Mail in the mid-1960s, becoming industrial editor, before joining BBC Wales in 1970. He became a presenter of the daily regional news programme Wales Today. For thirteen years he was the BBC's political correspondent in Wales, and had a weekly series on BBC Radio Wales. He broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 4, presenting the political and discussion programmes, Out of Order and Tea Junction.

Awarded an MBE in 1994 for services to broadcasting, he was an honorary fellow of Cardiff University and Aberystwyth University.

Publications Wales on the Wireless: A Broadcasting Anthology, (ed, 1988), Gomer Press in association with BBC, The Welsh Illusion (1999) Wales Off Message (2000) 2001 A Year in Wales (2001) When Arthur Met Maggie (2006) A Useful Fiction: Adventures in British Democracy (2009)