Presenter Eddie Mair is to leave the BBC after greater than 30 years, the company has stated.
The 52-year-old, who has been a presenter on Radio 4's PM programme since 1998, will host his final present on 17 August.
He joked: "I thought this was the appropriate moment to step out and give someone else a chance, before I'm so old my sentences make no lasagne."
His successor might be introduced in "due course", a BBC assertion stated.
Mair posted on Twitter his thanks for "all the kind words" from followers, and hinted he would seem elsewhere as he was "changing jobs".
Twitter put up by @eddiemair
Thank you for all the sort phrases. I respect them. But there are journalists on this planet who're being shot, jailed, held hostage or pressured to work with @corrie_corfield. I’m solely altering jobs. So please do one thing about them. (Not Corrie. She’s beautiful. Mainly)
— Eddie Mair (@eddiemair) July 1, 2018
Twitter put up 2 by @eddiemair
Anyone not bored inflexible already can learn extra on this week’s @RadioInstances. I've a column there you recognize. I received’t be doing anything on account of laziness. Thank you.
— Eddie Mair (@eddiemair) July 1, 2018
Fran Unsworth, director of BBC News, stated: "Eddie has delivered excellent journalism and created a actual bond with the viewers by means of his combination of heat, incisive questioning and understanding when to pay attention so as to get the easiest out of his company.
"He is one of the outstanding broadcasters of his generation and his new employer is very lucky to have him."
Mair joined PM as a common co-presenter in 1998 earlier than changing into the only real host in 2003.
He has additionally offered Newsnight on BBC Two and helped to launch Radio 5 stay.
'Best job in BBC'
He stated: "I am really grateful to the BBC for being given extra alternatives through the years than I deserved.
"My apologies to PM listeners for all of the issues I've acknowledged that I should not have, and all of the issues I ought to have acknowledged that I did not.
"Whoever comes next will be getting the best job in the BBC and I honestly wish them the very best."
Gwyneth Williams, controller of Radio four, stated he was "a consummate broadcaster".
She stated: "You want to be in his hands when news breaks and I remember too, with respect, but also personal sadness, his conversations with Steve Hewlett during Steve's illness."
Hewlett, presenter of the Media Show, shared his expertise of dealing with most cancers in a sequence of interviews with Mair, who introduced his Radio 4's colleague's dying on his present final 12 months.
Vine exit
The BBC has additionally confirmed that Jeremy Vine will leave Points of View after presenting the programme for 10 years.
It comes after he was introduced because the successor to Matthew Wright to entrance "The Wright Stuff" on Channel 5, which might be rebranded.
Vine will not stop his weekday BBC Radio 2 present.
The presenter thanked viewers for his or her feedback, "good and bad".
Vine added: "It's given me such a privileged position to look at everything the BBC does on TVwatching it all from your point of view."