Radio White's first job for the
BBC was a live introduction to a
Vietnamese television programme on the
BBC World Service. From this he began a career working for
BBC Radio, first at
Radio Brighton, and later,
Radio Derby, where he produced and presented several different programmes. He left to present the daily mid-morning show on the
Birmingham radio station
BRMB. The following month a prerecorded rehearsal of the
Look East headlines (which featured White exclaiming "bugger" after making a mistake) was broadcast by mistake. As presenter of
Look East, White has hosted a number regional events, including the east's coverage of
Children in Need, and other charitable evenings. His journalism has won him several awards. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BBC Nations and Regions Ruby Television Awards in 2006, and has also won a Creative Industries' Media Personality of the Year Award. and Television News Presenter of the Year in 2000. He was nominated for the Royal Television Society Award for Presenter of the Year in 2007, but lost out to
Jeremy Paxman. He won the RTS award for Regional Television Presenter of the Year in 2013, and again in 2014. On 30 September 2021, White suddenly announced his departure from
Look East at the end of the 6:30pm programme, after 37 years with
BBC East. In a November 2021 interview with
Iain Dale for an
LBC podcast, White revealed the only other person who knew about his departure in advance was the editor of
Look East, and he left the Norwich studios immediately after that night's programme. ==Personal life==