One of the UK’s most established newsreaders and journalists Clive Myrie has revealed the toll of being a prominent and recognisable figure, including receiving information of a death threat against him which contained details of the bullet that would be used.

Myrie, who has been a news journalist for the BBC for three decades told the Desert Island Discs radio show that he had previously been sent faeces and cards with gorillas. And one death threat involved “talking about the kind of bullet he’d use in the gun to kill me and this kind of stuff.”

He revealed: “I was shaken for a while. I thought it’s just someone showboating, it’s just bravado.

“Then they tracked down this character and it turned out he had previous convictions for firearms offences.

“So I thought, ‘Oh, my God, what, if anything, might this person have been planning?’”

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