Biography

Peter Woods was born on November 7, 1930 in Romford, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Out of Order (1987), Pulaski: The TV Detective (1987) and Life at Stake (1978). He was married to Kathleen Marian Smith and Emma Jean Steer. He died on March 22, 1995 in Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK.

Very pronounced bags under his eyes

On 14 May 1976, an edition of the BBC 1 Six O'Clock News that he was reading was faded out early, euphemistically because of "technical problems", after he began slurring his words. He was reading a story about the monthly Trade Figures and stumbled over the numbers before ad-libbing "... and the trade figures are an awful lot". Many viewers phoned in to complain that Woods was drunk, but the official explanation was that it was a side-effect of a hay-fever drug that he had taken.

In January 2011, Justin Webb, news reporter and presenter of BBC Radio Four's "Today" programme, revealed that his father was Peter Woods with whom his mother had an affair in the late 1950s which ended when Justin was born.