Beard Liberation Front
17th April
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Radio beards & broadcasting gravitas: Nick Robinson v Justin Webb
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that after considerable social media interest in the facial hair of two presenters of BBC Radio4’s Today programme, Nick Robinson and Justin Webb it has decided to test which beard bristles with more broadcasting gravitas.
Nick Robinson wore a beard in 2019 while presenting Today but is currently clean shaven. Justin Webb has grown a lockdown beard while presenting the programme from his home office. This week Robinson tweeted criticism of Webb’s beard suggesting that there may be a round of BBC Beard Wars in progress.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, there is no question that radio beards can add broadcasting gravitas. Former The World Tonight presenter who was voted Beard of the Year 2012. In 2020 we’re checking to see if Nick Robinson or Justin Webb can hope to match that level of hirsute profundity in future.
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