List of former BBC newsreaders and journalists
This is a list of newsreaders and journalists formerly employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio.
The BBC has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide news reports and interviews. The following list names individuals who are no longer employed by the BBC in its news division BBC News.
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- Yorkshire Television's Calendarduring the 1990s.
- Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980. She currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
- Robin Aitken – BBC journalist since 1978. Left in 2005, ending his career on BBC Radio 4's Today. Aitken published Can We Trust the BBC? (Continuum Press) in February 2007, which asserted the BBC was guilty of an "unconscious, institutionalised Leftism"
- genocide in Rwanda to the plight of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq to the civil wars in Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia.[2]He died in 2023 after a long battle with cancer.
- Juliet Alexander – presenter of Ebony 1982–1990 the BBC’s first Black news and current affairs magazine TV programme. Reporter on John Craven’s Newsround. Presenter of Black Londoners on BBC Radio London. Presenter of Songs of Praise. Reporter on BBC Newsround SE. Presenter on Woman's Hour BBC radio 4. Presenter of After Sugar What? A Radio 4 series about diversification in the Caribbean. Presenter of Careering Ahead.
- Midlands Today. She retired in 2012 after nearly 40 years of continuous service.
- Linda Alexander – reporter and presenter on Newsnight from 1980 until 1983. She died in 2015. She was married to the BBC's former political editor David Holmes.
- Tonightin the 1960s. He died in 1973.
- BBC radio broadcaster on the World War II BBC Forces Programme, and from 1945 on the BBC Light Programme. She died in 1999.
- female empowerment.
- Natalia Antelava, former BBC correspondent, co-founder of journalism start-up Coda Media where she is editor-in-chief.[3]
- Alice Arnold – newsreader, mainly on BBC Radio 4 from 2004 to 2012. She is married to sports presenter Clare Balding.
- Child's Playduring the 1980s.
- Mark Austin – former BBC journalist and sports correspondent for BBC News, from 1982 to 1986. He joined ITN in 1986 as sports correspondent. Now works for Sky News.
- Khalid Aziz – main presenter and reporter on Look North in Leeds during the 1970s and early 1980s. He left to join TVSon its inception in 1982.
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- BBC Worldand presented World Sport on CNN International.
- Brian Baines – main presenter and announcer on BBC Look North during the 1970s and 1980s, eventually retiring from the programme in 1988. He died in 2006.
- Richard Baker – first to read the BBC TV news in 1954 (in voiceover). He continued to work as a newsreader until his retirement in 1982. He also presented the BBC's coverage of the Proms, as well as Start the Week and Baker's Dozen on Radio 4, in addition to narrating the children's series Teddy Edward and Mary, Mungo and Midge for the BBC. He died in 2018.
- Late Night Line Up during the 1960s and Heart of the Matterduring the 1980s. She was created Baroness Bakewell in 2011.
- Five Newsin October 2007.
- Gareth Barlow – presenter on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today and BBC World Service before joining the BBC News Channel. In August 2023 he came to international attention following a blooper he made while presenting a late night BBC news programme. Starting the 10pm bulletin, he said "I’m watching– I’m watching BBC News? I’m Gareth Barlow. You’re watching BBC News."[4] Joined Sky News to present the network's breakfast show alongside Kay Burley.[5]
- Midlands Today. He also presented a number of other television and radio programmes, including Songs of Praise and Gardeners' Question Time. He was married to fellow-former Nationwidepresenter Dilys Morgan. He died in 2022.
- Brian Barron – long-serving BBC foreign correspondent, reporting from many war-zones and trouble-spots around the world during the 1980s and 1990s. He died in 2009.
- Paul Barry – reporter and presenter on The Money Programme, Newsnight and Panorama from 1978 until 1986. He then moved to Australia, where he has since continued his journalistic career.
- Raymond Baxter – long-serving presenter and commentator on many significant BBC outside broadcasts, usually alongside Richard Dimbleby, most notably the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and the funerals of King George VI and Winston Churchill in 1952 and 1965 respectively. He was best known as the main presenter on Tomorrow's World from 1965 until 1977. He died in 2006.
- Midlands Today, from 1983 until 2003.
- Bruce Belfrage – announcer and newsreader on BBC radio during the Second World War. He became famous for having read the nine o'clock news on 15 October 1940 when Broadcasting House was hit by a German bomb: Belfrage carried on as if nothing had happened. He died in 1974.
- Martin Bell – prolific world affairs correspondent covering many conflicts in 30 years as a reporter until leaving the BBC in 1997 to become a politician
- Chris Bickerton – presenter of the BBC World Service programme Focus on Africa for 30 years in the 1970s and 1980s. He died in 2002.
- Midlands Todayin his native Birmingham, until he was sacked in 2009 following a criminal court case.
- Rachael Bland – originally worked as a presenter on BBC Radio Wiltshire, before moving to BBC Radio 5 Live and to the BBC News Channel, where she worked as a relief and weekend presenter. In 2011, she became a main presenter on North West Tonight, while continuing to work on Radio 5 Live. She died in September 2018, following a well-publicised battle with breast cancer.
- Jasmine Bligh – one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s. She died in 1991.
- Claire Bolderson – presented Newshour on BBC World Service and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4. Left on 20 March 2012
- Jennie Bond – main co-presenter of the Six O'Clock News and royal correspondent for BBC News for 13 years until 2003.
- Look North. She left in 1995 to become a presenter on Sky News, where she continues to work to this day. She is the daughter of Louise Botting.
- Money Box from 1977 to 1992. She is the mother of Anna Botting.
- programme. He died in 2020.
- Bernard Braden – eponymous presenter of Braden's Week, a consumer affairs programme, which ran from 1967 until 1972. He had previously presented On The Braden Beat, a very similar show, which ran on ITV from 1962 until 1967, and he was well known as an actor and comedian. He died in 1993. He was married to fellow television presenter Barbara Kelly.
- Melvyn Bragg – began as a BBC general trainee in 1961 and then worked in the World Service, the Third Programme and the Home Service. He was later a presenter on Start the Week from 1988 until 1998, but he is best known as the presenter and editor of LWT's The South Bank Show from 1978 until 2010. He was created Baron Bragg in 1998.
- Chris Brasher – athlete, and reporter for Tonight in the 1960s. He died in 2003.
- Julian Bray – freelance news and current affairs, lifestyle broadcaster from 1970 to 1984, on various programmes including Late Light Extra on the BBC Light Programme, BBC World Service and BBC Radio London. Bray is now an aviation and aviation security expert, and broadcasts from his home studio in Peterborough.
- Wales Today during the 1980s. She also occasionally presented Songs of Praise.
- Fern Britton – originally worked for Westward Television, before joining the BBC in the early 1980s as a newsreader on News After Noon and Breakfast Time. She later went on to host Ready Steady Cook, This Morning and That's What I Call Television
- TenO'Clock bulletin from 2000 to 2003.
- Roland Buerk – former BBC Tokyo correspondent, and son of Michael Buerk.
- Business Breakfast, remaining in these roles until 1999. He also presented the Today programme and PM on BBC Radio 4.
- Sir Alastair Burnet – presenter and reporter on Panorama and general election coverage during the early 1970s: he also presented coverage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips' wedding in 1973. He rejoined ITN in 1976 as a main anchor on News at Ten, remaining there until his retirement in 1991. He died in 2012.
- North West Tonight from 1997 until his retirement in 2011. He had previously worked for Ulster Television in his native Belfast and he also worked on Granada Reports and World in Action. During his career, he interviewed eight British prime ministers. He is also well-known as the long-serving original host of the ITV quiz The Krypton Factorfrom 1977 to 1995. Other quizzes he has hosted include Password, A Word in Your Ear and Relatively Speaking.
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- Sue Cameron – presenter of Newsnight during the 1990s. She has also presented Channel 4 News.
- Sue Carpenter – relief co–presenter on News After Noon and on Breakfast Time during the 1980s and was also a main presenter on Points West. She later joined ITN.
- Tom Carver – held various posts as foreign correspondent, before becoming Washington DC correspondent for eight years. Now works for Control Risks Group.
- Judith Chalmers – BBC announcer during the 1950s and 1960s: she had previously worked as a performer on Children's Hour from the age of 13. She also presented Woman's Hour and Family Favourites during the 1960s, but she is best known as the long-serving main co-presenter on ITV's Wish You Were Here...? from 1974 until 2003. She is married to the sports commentator Neil Durden-Smith and their son is the TV presenter Mark Durden-Smith.
- Jonathan Charles – presented BBC World News, BBC News, and World News Today. He has also presented for BBC World News from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as well as HARDtalk, and BBC World Service programmes. Charles was a world affairs correspondent for the BBC, reporting from many conflict zones, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and the Beslan school siege, as well as natural disasters. During his career as a journalist, Charles was based in several countries including Belgium, France, Germany and the USA. Now works as director of communications at the EBRD
- Michael Charlton – reporter and interviewer on Panorama 1962 – 1976. He also appeared on Newsnight and other BBC programmes.
- Christopher Chataway – athlete, and reporter on Panorama from 1956: he was also an ITN newscaster during its early days. He died in 2014.
- Adrian Chiles – presenter on Working Lunch from 1994 to 2007 and an occasional relief presenter on Breakfast. He is perhaps best known as the former main co-host of The One Show, which he left to present ITV's Daybreak.
- The World This Weekend(Radio 4).
- , the latter of which he was also the question-setter. Formerly worked for the BBC Russian Service, and spoke fluent Russian. He died in 1996.
- Pattie Coldwell – presenter and reporter on Nationwide: she also presented Open Air, Loose Women and Radio 4's You and Yours. She died in 2002.
- John Cole – BBC's political editor between 1981 and 1992. Died 2013.
- Michael Cole – joined the BBC in 1969 as a presenter and reporter on Look East. He then moved on to the national news, working in various reporting roles, and later as the BBC's royal correspondent during the 1980s. He left the BBC in 1988 in order to become the director of public affairs at Harrods.
- BBC World and of technology programme Click Online. Later with Al Jazeera English.
- Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, and was awarded the Olympic Orderlater that year. He died in 2013.
- Nationwide. He is best known for his long-running investigative ITV series The Cook Report, which ran from 1987 until 1998.
- Sue Cook – regular presenter on various current affairs programmes, including Nationwide and Breakfast Time, during the 1980s and 1990s. She has also presented a number of other programmes, including Children in Need, Pebble Mill at One and Crimewatch.
- Alistair Cooke – broadcaster, presented Letter from America until October 2004; he died later in the same month.
- Frances Coverdale – main co-presenter on News After Noonduring the early 1980s – she also regularly presented the Nine O'clock News.
- Elizabeth Cowell – one of the first three presenters when the BBC Television Service started in 1936, and returned after the war in 1946. She died in 1998.
- Tyne Tees Television in his native Newcastle upon Tyne and as a reporter on Nationwide. He died in 2015.
- Newsround. He was also a regular co-presenter on Multicoloured Swap Shop and Saturday Superstore during this period. He left in 1989 to become the main anchor on Countryfile, which he still presents to this day. Prior to Newsround, he had worked for the BBC on Look North in Newcastle upon Tyne and Points Westin Bristol.
- Vivien Creegor – main presenter on Points West during the 1980s. She also presented a number of other news bulletins on BBC Television and also on Radio 4. She left in 1988 to join the fledgling Sky News.
- Michael Crick – regular reporter on Panorama from 1990 and Newsnight from 1992, replacing Martha Kearney as the political editor on the latter programme in 2007. He had previously worked on Channel 4 News and he returned there in 2011 as its new political correspondent.
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- BBC News Channel and on Breakfast, in which he regularly reported on happenings within the London Stock Exchange and other business news. He later became a presenter on Working Lunchfrom 2008 until 2014.
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- BBC News Channel and BBC World Newsfrom 2007 to 2011.
- Nasteh Dahir – foreign correspondent for the BBC in Somalia, murdered in 2008.
- Spotlight before becoming a presenter of various national BBC News programmes, as well as others including Holiday and Crimewatchuntil her murder in 1999.
- Bob Danvers-Walker – regular announcer for BBC television and radio from 1943, including such programmes as Round And About and London Calling Europe. He was best known as one of the voices of the British Pathé newsreel from 1940 until 1970. He died in 1990.
- Sammy Darko – has worked across most media platforms from TV, radio and online for BBC World[6] and BBC domestic audience.
- Jason Dasey – Australian sports presenter on BBC World News between 1994 and 1997, including Newsday with Philip Hayton. Later joined CNN International.
- BBC Wales, Nationwide, Newsnight and Songs of Praise. He later worked in various senior roles within the Football Associationfrom 1994 until 2006.
- William Davis – economics broadcaster and commentator. One of the original presenters of The Money Programme and BBC Radio 4's The World at One. He died in 2019.
- The World At One, Panoramaand election night coverage from 1960 until 1987. He died in 2000.
- Wilfred De'Ath – BBC Radio producer and interviewer during the 1960s: he also reported on the counterculture for Radio 4 during the 1970s. He died in 2020.
- Frank Delaney – BBC correspondent in Dublin during the early 1970s, mainly reporting on the Troubles. He later hosted various literary programmes on both television and radio and was himself a much-published author. He died in 2017.
- Jack de Manio – announcer on the BBC's Home Service during the 1950s. He then became the main anchor on Today from 1958 until 1971. He died in 1988.
- Anne Diamond – originally worked as a reporter for BBC West during the 1970s, before becoming a presenter and reporter on ATV Today, which later became Central News. She then returned to the BBC as a co-presenter on News After Noon and a reporter on Nationwide, but later joined TVam as its main co-anchor, alongside Nick Owen. The pair went on to host their own BBC chat show, Good Morning With Anne and Nick, from 1992 until 1996.
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 2002 and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 2013, following in the footsteps of his late father, Richard Dimbleby. In addition, he was the chairman of Question Time from 1994 until 2018. He is the brother of fellow journalist Jonathan Dimbleby.
- Sir Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965: he died later that latter year. He was the father of David Dimbleby and Jonathan Dimbleby.
- Grandstand in 1958. He continued to work for the BBC in other roles until 1977. He died in 2015. He was married to the BBC announcer and reporter Polly Elwes.
- Peter Donaldson – long-serving newsreader and announcer on BBC Radio 4. He died in 2015.
- Mike Donkin – joined the BBC in 1975, originally working on Radio 4's Today, then on BBC Television News as world affairs correspondent throughout subsequent decades. He died in 2007, following a short illness.
- Robert Dougall – one of the first BBC Television newsreaders along with Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall. Later a presenter of programmes for people in retirement. He died in 1999.
- Alan Douglas – main presenter and correspondent on Reporting Scotland from 1978 to 1996. He left to join Scottish Television.
- Komla Dumor – presenter on BBC World News and BBC News Channel until he suddenly died on 18 January 2014. He was the first presenter of Focus on Africa which he presented until the day before his death. Following his death the BBC named the Komla Dumor Award for exceptional talent in telling African stories after him.
- John Dunn – announcer on BBC domestic radio during the 1960s, and later on Radio 1. He also worked as an announcer and newsreader on Radio 4 during the mid-1970s, but was best known for his long-running drive time radio programme, which began in 1976. He died in 2004.
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- David Eades – long-serving presenter on BBC World News, until January 2023.
- Chris Eakin – presenter of Look North from 1990 to 1997, presented on the BBC News Channel from 1997 to 2015, including many reports from Northern Ireland in the early part of this period and occasional appearances on BBC Weekend News from 2013 to 2015.
- John Edmunds – TV newsreader from September 1968 until September 1973, and then again in October 1974 and between September 1979 and June 1981. He also presented the BBC's regional London TV magazine, Town And Around in 1968-1969. He died in 2023.
- Gwenan Edwards – presented on the BBC News Channel from 2000 to 2007. Before that she co–anchored BBC Newsroom South Eastfrom 1993 to 2000. She presented for BBC World News from 1994 to 1996. She also presented UK Today until it was discontinued.
- BBC One, and other appearances on the BBC Weekend News, BBC News at Six, BBC News at One, and Daily Politics.
- HTV West.
- HTV Westduring the 1980s.
- Tonight from 1959 to 1962. She died in 1987. She was married to the television executive and sports presenter Peter Dimmock.
- Newsroom South East, the BBC's regional news programme for London and the South East of England. He then became the main overnight presenter from 2001 on BBC News Channel and BBC World Newsuntil retiring in 2021.
- Fred Emery – reporter on Panorama throughout the 1980s. He was previously a newspaper journalist and he worked in my troublespots throughout the world, including Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
- BBC News 24, in 1997, co-presenting the very first show with Sarah Montague. He was also a main presenter on Newsnight 2003–2014, a presenter on BBC News at Five, The Film Review and Dateline London, 2008–2017.
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- Bernard Falk – regular reporter and presenter on 24 Hours during the 1960s and Nationwide during the 1970s. He also presented Start the Week on Radio 4 and the BBC's early-1980s challenge quiz Now Get Out of That. He died in 1990.
- Lynn Faulds Wood – presenter on Breakfast Time from 1984 to 1986, but she was best known as the main co-presenter (with her husband, John Stapleton), of Watchdog, from 1985 until 1993. She died in 2020.
- BBC World until early 2006 when he left for CNN International. Subsequently, he left for Al Jazeera Englishin 2010.
- Roger Finn – presenter and reporter on Newsround during the late-1980s and early-1990s. He later joined BBC South Today, which he still occasionally presents to this day.
- Stephanie Flanders – joined the BBC in 2002 as a presenter and reporter on Newsnight and Panorama, and also as an occasional relief newsreader on other main news bulletins. She became the corporation's economics editor in 2008, remaining in this role until 2013. She is the daughter of the singer and performer Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann fame.
- Tom Fleming – long-serving BBC radio and television commentator on major state occasions, such as royal weddings and funerals and the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony. He was also an actor and director. He died in 2010.
- Sean Fletcher – sports news presenter from 2005 to 2011. Left to join Sky Sports News
- Anna Ford – presenter of the BBC Six O'Clock News from 1989 until 1999 and the One O'Clock News from 1999 until 2006. She had also worked across other BBC News programmes, having been the first female newsreader at ITN. She left the BBC in 2006.
- The Day of The Jackal and The Odessa File.
- Look North.
- Max Foster – business reporter and presenter on Breakfast until he left for CNN International in 2005
- Jonathan Freedland – news reporter on BBC radio and television, particularly on The World at One and Today during the early 1990s.
- John Freeman – presenter on Panorama during the 1950s. He also served as the Labour MP for Watford from 1945 until 1955, but he was probably best known for his controversial series Face to Face (1959–1962), in which he conducted very probing interviews with famous people of the time, including Tony Hancock, Gilbert Harding and Adam Faith. Freeman later became the chairman of LWT, in 1971. He died in 2014.
- Matt Frei – former BBC southern Europe correspondent, Asia correspondent and Washington DC correspondent, and the main presenter of BBC World News America. LAterthe Washington correspondent and now co-presenter of Channel 4 News
- Bob Friend – joined the BBC in 1969 and regularly reported from various locations around the world over the next two decades, including Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Tokyo and New York. He later became a main presenter on Sky News. He died in 2008.
- Sir David Frost – presented Breakfast with Frost from 1993 to 2005. Later joined Al Jazeera English. Died in 2013
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- Kate Gerbeau – read the headlines on Breakfast until she moved to Five News in 2005.
- Charles Gibson – presented ABC World News with Charles Gibson from 2007 to 2009.
- Frank Gillard – worked as a BBC war correspondent from 1941 until 1945. He later became the director of the BBC's western region, and then the director of radio, a role he held from 1964 until 1969. He died in 1998.
- Andrew Gilligan – journalist implicated in the Hutton Report of 2003 following his report on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme regarding the content of a British government briefing paper. Resigned following publication of the report's findings in the same year. Now with Press TV
- Margaret Gilmore – former BBC security correspondent
- Fran Godfrey – newsreader on BBC Radio 2, who became famous for reading the news bulletins on Wake Up to Wogan from 1993 until 2008. She continued to present news bulletins for Radio 2 until she left the station in 2014. She joined Bauer Radio digital station Mellow Magic.
- Diana Goodman – appointed in 1986 as the BBC's first female foreign correspondent. Served as BBC correspondent in Bonn, Eastern Europe (based in East Berlin) and Moscow.
- Felicity Goodey – long-serving presenter and reporter for BBC North West. She left journalism in 1998 to become a founder director of the Northwest Regional Development Agency.
- Joanna Gosling – long-serving presenter on the BBC News Channel until February 2023.
- Harry Gration – one of the main anchors for the BBC Yorkshire regional magazine programme Look North, until his retirement in October 2020. He had also previously been a main presenter on South Today and an occasional stand-in presenter on Grandstand. He died in 2022.
- Charlotte Green
- BBC Breakfast Time during the 1980s. She is married to fellow television presenter Paul Coia.
- Freddie Grisewood – BBC radio announcer from 1929 up to the 1960s. He died in 1972.
- BBC News 24. He then joined Channel 4 News, which he still presents to this day.
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- Peter Haigh – In–vision announcer for BBC Television in the early 1950s, before moving to Come Dancing. He died in 2001.
- Yalda Hakim – Presenter and foreign correspondent on BBC World News. Left the BBC in 2023 to join Sky News.
- Stuart Hall – presented regional news programmes for the BBC in North West England in the 1960s and 1970s, while becoming known nationally for presenting It's a Knockout. Jailed on sex abuse charges in 2014.
- Vincent Hanna – reporter and famously incisive interviewer, originally on Panorama during the 1970s, then on Newsnight from 1980 until 1987, in which he covered political news and in particular the general election coverage, before being succeeded in the latter role by Peter Snow. He left to set up his own broadcasting company and to work for Channel 4. He died in 1997.
- Wales Today during the 1970s. He also worked as the BBC's political correspondent in Wales for 13 years, and he presented the BBC Radio 4political and discussion programmes Out Of Order and Tea Junction. He died in 2009.
- The World At One on BBC Radio 4. He died in 2010.
- Spotlight during the 1980s. He also worked as a national reporter for BBC News, mainly focusing on humanitarian crises, including the Rwandan Civil War. He also worked as an investigative journalist on Watchdog.
- Sally Hardcastle – former presenter on The World Tonight and Woman's Hour for BBC Radio 4. She died in 2014. She was the daughter of William Hardcastle.
- PM. He died in 1975. He was the father of Sally Hardcastle.
- Tonightin the 1960s. He died in 1986.
- Rosemary Harthill – BBC religious affairs correspondent, 1982–1988.[7]
- South Today. Left to join ITN.
- Twenty-Four Hours, for which he reported from more than 60 countries and 11 wars. He is also a long-serving print journalist and a much-published author. He was knighted in 2002.
- BBC News 24, resigning from the corporation in 2005 citing "incompatibility" with his new co–presenter Kate Silverton. He had been with the BBC for 37 years.
- In At The Deep End, which he presented alongside fellow-That's Life presenter Chris Serle. Heiney is married to fellow-journalist Libby Purves.
- PM. She was best known as a cricketer and she worked as a sports journalist following her retirement from the sport, becoming Baroness Heyhoe-Flint in 2011. She died in 2017.
- Nicola Heywood-Thomas - presenter, sub-editor and reporter on BBC Wales Today and BBC Radio Wales - she also presented the Radio Wales arts show for 25 years. She also worked in similar roles on HTV. She died in 2023.
- Stuart Hibberd – radio newsreader from 1924 and chief announcer up to 1951 – he was one of the main newsreaders during the Second World War. He died in 1983.
- Salford.
- Gerald Haycock – main presenter and reporter on BBC Points West during the 1980s and 1990s, having previously worked for ITN and HTV News at HTV West.
- Newsday from 2011 to 2020 at BBC World News. He is currently with CNN Philippines.
- Peter Hobday – long-serving main presenter on Radio 4's Today. He also presented Newsnight and The Money Programme. He died in 2020.
- McDonald Hobley – one of the first BBC Television continuity announcers, appearing from 1946 to 1956. He died in 1987.
- systemic lupus erythematosus. She later became an artist.[11]
- David Holmes – BBC's political editor from 1975 until 1980. He joined the BBC in 1956 and originally worked as a home news reporter, before becoming assistant political correspondent during the 1960s and deputy political editor in 1970. He died in 2014. He was married to fellow journalist Linda Alexander, who had been a presenter on Newsnight during the early 1980s.
- Bob Humphrys – regular reporter for BBC Wales programmes such as Wales Today and Week in Week Out, often alongside his brother, John Humphrys. During the 1990s, he specialised in sports commentary and reporting, particularly rugby. He died in 2008.
- John Humphrys – veteran BBC presenter, reporter and political interviewer. He began his career in the late 1950s as a trainee newspaper reporter in his native Cardiff, then he joined TWW, and was the first reporter on the scene of the infamous Aberfan disaster in 1966. He then joined the BBC, initially in the northwest region, then as a foreign correspondent, working mainly in the US and South Africa, throughout the 1970s, covering major events such as Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974 and Rhodesia's change in name to Zimbabwe. He became the BBC's diplomatic correspondent in 1980, then, from 1981 until 1987, the main presenter on the Nine O'clock News: he also frequently presented the One O'clock News, the Six O'clock News and Panorama. He joined Radio 4's Today in 1987 as the main co-presenter alongside the late Brian Redhead, and soon established himself as a tenacious political interviewer. He continued in this role until his retirement in September 2019. In addition, he regularly presented Week In, Week Out and the discussion programme Family Matters during the 1990s. He also presented the BBC's prestigious quiz Mastermind from its revival in 2003 until 2021, when he was replaced by fellow-journalist Clive Myrie. He is the brother of the late Bob Humphrys.
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- Midlands Today during the late 1970s. He then worked as a regular sports presenter on national news programmes during the 1980s, including Newsnight and Breakfast Time. He later became a principal speaker for the Green Party.
- Razia Iqbal – former arts correspondent and main presenter of Newshour on the BBC World Service between 2011 and 2023.
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- David Jacobs – announcer with the British Forces Broadcasting Service during the war, a BBC staff announcer in the early 1950s, and later the presenter of Juke Box Jury. He died in 2013.
- Peter Jay – BBC's economics editor during the 1990s. He had previously been the main anchor on LWT's Weekend World in the 1970s and was the founding chairman of TV-am in 1983.
- David Jessel – joined the BBC in 1967 as a trainee reporter for BBC Birmingham. He then worked as a reporter for The World at One from 1968 until 1972, before moving on to work on 24 Hours and its successor programmes throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He also presented Heart of the Matter alongside Joan Bakewell during the 1980s.
- Tonightin the 1960s. He died in 2010.
- Anna Jones – presented the 9 – 1 pm shift with Philip Hayton on BBC News 24 from 2003. She had been with the channel since its 1997 launch, originally as a business presenter. She left in 2005, after 12 years, to become a presenter on Sky News.
- Sally Jones – became BBC Breakfast's first female sports presenter in 1986 and continued in this role until the early 1990s. She also presented coverage of the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. She was also a real tennis champion, winning the world championship in 1993 and the British and US Open championships.
- BBC One O'Clock News and weekend bulletins. He left in October 2006 to become a presenter on the Al Jazeera English service, based in Doha.
- Gillian Joseph – read the headlines on Breakfast as well as occasionally presenting the main programme. She also worked for BBC London. She left for Sky News in 2005.
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- Vincent Kane – long-serving presenter and reporter for BBC Wales – he presented Wales Today from 1986 to 1993.
- Natasha Kaplinsky – presenter on BBC Breakfast from 2002, when she joined from Sky News, until 2005, and then the BBC Six O'Clock News from 2005 until 2007. While with the BBC she also appeared the One and the Ten O'Clock bulletins, as well as presenting on Children in Need. She left to become the face of Five News in October 2007.
- Robert Kee – long-serving presenter and reporter on Panorama. He was also one of the first presenters on TV-am. He died in 2013.
- Bridget Kendall – BBC's Moscow correspondent from 1989 until 1994, when she became Washington correspondent. She then worked as the BBC's diplomatic correspondent from 1998. In 2016, she became the first female Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, but she continues to broadcast for the BBC as an external contributor.
- Kenneth Kendall – first to read the news in front of a camera on BBC Television in 1955. He retired from the BBC in 1981 and subsequently presented Treasure Hunt on Channel 4. He died in 2012.
- Sir Ludovic Kennedy – television journalist and documentary maker. He presented the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Panorama, and he also chaired the television review series Did You See...? from 1980 until 1988. He had also previously worked as an ITN newscaster and reporter. He was knighted for his services to journalism in 1994. He died in 2009. He was married to the actress and dancer Moira Shearer.
- Sarah Kennedy – presenter on Sixty Minutes from 1983 until 1984. She has presented many other programmes, including the quizzes Game for a Laugh and Busman's Holiday, but is perhaps best known for hosting her own show on Radio 2.
- Richard Kershaw – presenter and reporter on various current affairs programmes, including Panorama, Nationwide and 24 Hours during the 1970s and 1980s. He died in 2014.
- Tasmin Lucia Khan – presenter of 60 Seconds on BBC Three and E24 on News Channel 2007–2010. Left to join Daybreakon ITV
- Keith Kyle – reporter for the BBC's Tonight programme from 1960, specialising in coverage of Africa and was based in Nairobi. He died in 2007.
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- Tyne Tees Television in his native Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1972, he became one of the first presenters on Pebble Mill at One, which he continued to host into the 1980s.
- Six O'Clock News at its launch in 1984 alongside Nicholas Witchell. She went on to present Desert Island Discs from 1988 until 2006, but has now left the BBC.
- HTV News.
- BBC2 quiz Today's The Day during the 1990s. He left BBC Newsin 1999.
- Sharanjit Leyl – Presenter for BBC World News based in Singapore. Joined BBC in 2003 and left the corporation in 2021.
- Alvar Lidell – BBC radio announcer and newsreader during the Second World War and thereafter. He retired in 1969 and died in 1981.
- This Weekand he had originally worked as an ITN reporter during the 1960s. He died in 2019.
- Judi Lines – main presenter on Look East during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Granada Televisionduring the 1980s. She was murdered in her native Trinidad in 2001.
- Sue Lloyd-Roberts – worked as a special correspondent for the BBC, travelling to, and reporting on, major news stories across the world, including important issues not covered widely elsewhere. Died of leukaemia on 13 October 2015.
- Panoramaduring subsequent decades. He died in 2014.
- Alex Lovell – presenter of BBC Points West between 2005 and 2023. Joined ITV News West Country and will make her on-air debut on 2 January 2024.[12][13]
- Six O'Clock News and News After Noon: he then worked on BBC News channelfrom 2000 until his retirement in January 2009.
- David Loyn – joined the BBC in 1987 as a TV correspondent. He then worked in various roles, including that of India correspondent in 1993, replacing Mark Tully, and international development correspondent, a role he held until 2015. During his tenure, he reported from various conflict and disaster zones, especially in Africa and the Middle East, and he covered major stories in other areas, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the war in Romania and the conflicts in Kosovo.
- Mastermind.
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- Money Programme. Later moved to London Weekend Television. He died in 2009.
- Reporting Scotlandduring the late 1980s.
- Today from 1984 until 2002. She had previously worked as a reporter on The World at One and she was also a presenter on Woman's Hourduring the 1970s and 1980s.
- Liz MacKean – former Newsnight correspondent who presented the earliest reports about the widespread abuse perpetrated by former TV star Jimmy Savile. Died in 2017.
- The World's Strongest Manin 1982 and 1983.
- Simon McCoy – presenter on BBC News, moved onto GB News to present an afternoon show on 25 March 2021.[14]
- Diana Madill – presenter on Today in Parliament and a relief newsreader on the BBC's Six O'Clock News during the 1990s.
- Mastermind, a role that he held from 1972 until 1997. He died in 2007. He was the father of fellow journalist Sally Magnusson.
- Reporting Scotland. She is the daughter of the late Magnus Magnusson.
- Reporting Scotland, and on Radio Scotland, presenting Good Morning Scotland and Eddie Mair Live, in the late 1980s. He later became a main presenter on Radio 4's PM, and also on Newsnight and BBC Three's The 7 O'Clock News. He left to join LBCin August 2018.
- Mary Malcolm – one of the first two regular female announcers on BBC Television after World War II, and into the 1950s. She died in 2010.
- Watchdogduring later decades.
- Laurie Margolis – long-serving BBC News reporter and news editor. He is best known for having broken the news of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands on Radio 4's PM in 1982.
- Reporting Scotlandfrom its inception until 1988
- Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980, and became the network's senior newsreader.[15]
- Ian Masters – long-serving main anchor on Look East during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Newsround, from 1976 to 1980, and the BBC's first-ever female British Asian to front a major national television programme. She later trained as an ophthalmologistand has worked in this role in India since 1996: she launched the non-profit organisation Second Sight in 2000.
- Glyn Mathias – former political editor of both BBC Cymru Wales and ITN
- BBC News Channel and later presented Breakfast and BBC News at One. She left the BBC in April 2017.
- Laurie Mayer– regular co–presenter on various news programmes in the 1980s, including News After Noon and the Six O'Clock News, as well as BBC Breakfast News. He has also presented South East Today.
- Mike McCarthy – main presenter and reporter on Look North until he joined Sky News in 2000.
- BBC News 24 from 2004 until 2006. He then became a presenter on BBC Weekend News and later presented BBC News at Ten and BBC News at One. He left the BBC in 2021 in order to move onto GB News.
- Paul McDowell – presenter and reporter on John Craven's Newsround from 1979 until 1985. He succeeded Lucy Mathenas the programme's dedicated reporter in 1980.
- Watchdog and Shop Well For Lessfrom 2016. She moved to Channel 4 in 2019 to host The Steph Show, later renamed Steph's Packed Lunch.
- Newsroom South East during the late 1980s. She was also a main presenter on the ITV pop magazine Ready Steady Go!from 1963 to 1966.
- Lee McKenzie – presented Inside F1 and was the F1 news correspondent until BBC pulled out of covering the sport on TV in 2015. Now with Channel 4 and BBC Sport.
- Robert McKenzie – interviewer and presenter, especially of general election results. He died in 1981.
- Guinness Book of Records, and for his regular appearances alongside Ross and main host Roy Castle on the BBC's Record Breakers. He continued to feature on the latter programme after Ross's murder in 1975, by the IRA, and became increasingly noted for his ability to spontaneously recall records set in virtually all fields when requested to do so by the studio audience. He died in 2004.
- . He died in March 2016.
- Newsroom South East during the 1990s. He is the son of Cliff Michelmore.
- Graham Miller – reporter for BBC Radio Birmingham in 1973. He then moved to BBC Radio London, before later joining Anglia Television: he continued to work in various roles for ITV, but mainly as a sports presenter and reporter. He now runs the independent media and communications business, MediaVu.
- Rosie Millard – BBC's arts correspondent between 1995 and 2004. She left following a clampdown on freelance writing.
- Stephen Milligan – presenter on BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight from 1980 until 1983. He left to join The Sunday Times, but returned to the BBC in 1988, serving as their Europe Correspondent. He also served as the Conservative MP for Eastleigh from 1992 until his sudden death in 1994.
- Reporting Scotlandfrom 1972 until 2007. He died in 2014.
- Louise Minchin - long-serving presenter on BBC Breakfast. She was initially a stand-in presenter, before becoming a main anchor from 2009 until her departure from the programme in September 2021. During this time, she was also a presenter on the One O'Clock News and You and Yours.
- BBC World News channel. Also former Washington, DC correspondent for BBC News.
- Ed Mitchell – presenter and reporter on Breakfast during the 1990s. He has also worked for ITN.
- Leslie Mitchell – first voice heard on BBC Television at its inception on 2 November 1936. After the war he moved to ITV. He died in 1985.
- Today programme alongside Jack de Manioduring the 1950s and 60s. He died in 1994.
- Wales Today, later becoming the anchor for Wales on Saturday. He became the presenter of BBC One's Final Scorein 2013 and continues to present the programme to this day, as well as other sports-related shows.
- Wales Today. He left in 1990 to work for Thames News and TV-am. He died in 2008.
- Christopher Morris – newsreader on all national BBC television bulletins. He was main presenter on the day Lord Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA in 1979, recording the biggest–ever audience, 26 million, for a news bulletin as ITN was on strike. He joined the BBC in 1967 as news correspondent in Spain, reported from many countries and many wars as special correspondent until 1989 when he joined Sky News as senior presenter and foreign correspondent for 11 years. He rejoined BBC as News 24 presenter until becoming managing director of his own TV production company, OmniVision, at Pinewood Studios in 2000.
- Newsround from 1990 to 1995. She joined Breakfast and has also been a presenter on Countryfile.
- Kylie Morris – BBC's South East Asia correspondent until she moved to Channel 4 News in 2006. She later presented More4 News.
- Tony Morris – former reporter and presenter on BBC North West Tonight. He was later a main presenter on Granada Reports, from 2003 onwards. He died in 2020.
- Panoramaduring the 1950s and 1960s and was noted for being a very incisive interviewer. He died in 1990.
- John Mundy – presenter and reporter on BBC North West from 1974 until 1990.
- BBC Ten O'Clock News between 2004 and 2007 before leaving for Sky News.
- Denis Murray – joined the BBC in 1982; he worked as its Dublin correspondent until 1984, when he became Northern Ireland political correspondent, working in Belfast. He was appointed the BBC's Ireland correspondent in 1988 and continued in this role until his retirement in 2008.
- Today programme. She is best known as a main anchor on Woman's Hour, which she has presented since 1987.
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- Sunday Politics and Straight Talk with Andrew Neil. He was also an occasional guest presenter on Newsnight from 2014, following Jeremy Paxman's departure, and he presented coverage for both the UK and the US elections, his last being the 2020 US election. He left the BBC that year in order to become chairman of GB News.
- BBC Breakfast Time in 1983, and the founder-editor of the Six O'Clock Newsin 1984. He later became the BBC's director of news and current affairs, and eventually the first chief executive of production, before his retirement in 1998.
- Nationwide. He died in 2017.
- Omnibus in 1982. He was best known as the long-serving presenter of Film... from 1974 until 1998. He died in 2017. He was married to the author Diana Norman.
- Charles Nove – joined BBC Radio in 1981 as a continuity announcer and newsreader, and he was also a regular announcer on BBC1. He was a regular newsreader on Wake Up to Wogan from 2007 until 2009, and continued to read the news on Radio 2 until 2012. He was later a continuity announcer on Radio 4, from 2018 until 2019, when he left to join Scala Radio.
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- Robin Oakley – BBC's political editor between 1992 and 2000. He later became the European political editor for CNN International.
- Olivia O'Leary – first senior female presenter on Newsnight, a role she held from 1985–1986. She had previously worked as a print journalist and radio and television presenter in her native Ireland.
- Rageh Omaar – joined the BBC in 1992 as a foreign correspondent. He then worked as Africa correspondent, and later covered the Iraq invasion. He left in 2006 to join Al Jazeera English.
- Yesterday in Parliament. He left the BBC in 2013.
- HTV West and Channel 4.
- BBC Breakfast News and Songs of Praise. He left the BBC in 2018 to join the international broadcaster TRT World.
- , based in Moscow.
- TVam in the 1980s, the pair later had their own BBC daytime chat show Good Morning With Anne and Nick(1992–96).
- The 8.15 from Manchester.
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- Shahnaz Pakravan – former presenter on BBC News 24 – she also regularly presented Tomorrow's World and Woman's Hour. She had previously been a presenter on Channel 4 News and The Channel Four Daily.
- Syrian Civil War, later international correspondent based in Washington. Now with ABC News.
- The Antiques Roadshow.
- BBC Wales, mainly specialising in rugby. He died in 2017.
- BBC Breakfast News, and he moved onto Newsnightsoon after that.
- Brian Perkins – long-serving newsreader on Radio 4 from 1965 to 1969 and again from 1978 until his retirement in 2003.
- Robert Peston – BBC's business editor for all main TV and radio news programmes from 2005 until 2014. He also worked as the corporation's economics editor from 2013 until 2015, after which he left to become ITV's political editor.
- Sylvia Peters – continuity announcer for BBC Television from 1947 to 1958. She died in 2016.
- Tonight in the 1960s. He was later the host of the quiz Busman's Holiday during the late1980s, he narrated the BBC nature programme The Living Isles in 1986 and he presented the ITVseries Nature Watch in the 1990s.
- Barnaby Phillips – BBC's southern Africa correspondent from 2001 to 2006, and had worked for the BBC for 15 years, reporting from locations in several continents. He now works as Europe correspondent for the Al Jazeera English television network, initially based in its Athens bureau (2006–2010), and now based in London.
- Frank Phillips – BBC Radio newsreader and announcer during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was the first newsreader to append his name to the wartime bulletin in July 1940. He also announced the Labour election victory in 1945 on the midnight news.[citation needed]
- Have A Gofrom 1946 until 1967. He died in 1978.
- John Pienaar – deputy political editor for BBC News from 2015 until 2020. He originally joined the BBC in 1992 and worked on various news and current affairs programmes as both a presenter and reporter: these included Question Time Extra and Daily Politics.
- John Pilger – reporter and documentary-maker on Midweek, 1972–73.
- Man Alive. He died in 2018.
- BBC News 24 between 2002 and 2003. He now works for Sky News.
- Mastermind.
- Gerald Priestland – foreign correspondent and, later, a religious commentator for the BBC. He died in 1991.
- Libby Purves – presenter on Radio 4's Today during the late 1970s; she also presented Radio 4's Midweek for 30 years. She is married to fellow journalist Paul Heiney.
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- He also presented a number of news programmes across BBC World Service and BBC Radio london. He left the BBC in 2018 to launch the media company Fresh Start Media which won a BAFTA for a youth news programme created by Rogers.
- My Music. He died in 2009.
- BBC Breakfast Time in the 1980s, but she is best known both as the main presenter on That's Life! from 1973 until 1994, and for having set up Childline in 1986. She was appointed Dame in 2015. She was married to fellow-journalist Desmond Wilcox and is the mother of the actress Rebecca Wilcox.
- Adam Raphael – presenter on Newsnight from 1987 until 1988. He is best known as a newspaper journalist, working on various newspapers both before and after this period.
- Huda al-Rasheed – presenter on BBC Arabic from 1974 until after 2018.
- Brian Redhead – co–presenter of Today on BBC Radio 4 from 1975 until 1993, shortly before his death in January 1994.
- Susanna Reid – main co-presenter on BBC Breakfast from 2003 until 2014. She left to become a co-anchor on Good Morning Britain.
- Lee Ridley – worked with BBC News Online before becoming the first standup comedian in Britain to use a communication aid in his routines, performing them under the stage name of Lost Voice Guy. He rose to prominence in June 2018 upon winning the 12th series of Britain's Got Talent and a comedy on BBC Radio 4
- TV-am, but later returned to the BBC to present daytime and Breakfast Timenews bulletins.
- Rip Off Britain alongside Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville.
- Daniela Ritorto – presented overnight bulletins on BBC World News, BBC News Channel and BBC One, as well as Impact, GMT, Outside Source and World News Today. Now with SBS News.
- Debbie Rix – regular presenter and newsreader on BBC Breakfast Timeduring the 1980s.
- Tonightin the 1960s. He died in 1987.
- Panorama from its second edition in 1953. He was also a commentator at the funeral of King George VI in 1952 and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II the following year. In addition, he was a regular sports commentator, particularly on tennis, and he hosted the antiques quiz Going for a Songfrom 1965 until 1977. He died in 2009.
- Ask The Family, Call My Bluff and Brain of Britain. He died in 2011.
- Michael Rodd – presenter on BBC Look North during the late 1960s – he also presented the BBC's coverage of early space shuttle launches. He is best known as the original presenter on the children's film quiz Screen Test (1970–79) and as a presenter on Tomorrow's World (1972–82) and The Risk Business (1980–81).
- Pashto service in Helmand Province, Afghanistan; murdered in 2008.
- Grandstand and she regularly read the sports bulletins on BBCnews programmes during the rest of the 1990s. She died in 1999 following a long and well-publicised battle with cancer.
- BBC Breakfast Time in 1983, but he is probably best known for having presented Crimewatchfor 23 years, from 1984 until 2007.
- Jacky Rowland – BBC foreign correspondent in the Balkans and Middle East in the late 1990s. From 2003 she has been working for Al Jazeera English TV.
- Angus Roxburgh – BBC's Moscow correspondent from 1992 until 1998, when he became a Europe correspondent, based in Brussels. He was previously a newspaper journalist and has written books and television and radio documentaries on Russia.
- Joshua Rozenberg – presenter and reporter for the BBC from 1975 until 2000, specialising in legal affairs.
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- Vaughan Savidge – former freelance newsreader for BBC Radio 3, continuity announcer for Radio 4 and World Service. He left the corporation in spring 2018 and is believed to be residing in France.
- Diane Sawyer – presented ABC World News with Diane Sawyer from 2009 to 2014, until she stood down in August 2014.
- Selina Scott – one of the first main presenters on Breakfast Time on its launch in 1983. She had previously been a newsreader on ITN's News at Ten and later went on to co-present The Clothes Show.
- The Antiques Roadshowthroughout the 1980s and 1990s. He died in 2015.
- Tim Sebastian – joined BBC News in 1979 as its Warsaw correspondent, later becoming Europe correspondent, Moscow correspondent and eventually Washington correspondent from 1985 to 1989. He also presented the BBC's HARDtalk from 1997 until 2005. Joined Deutsche Welle.
- Radio Four. He left the BBC to become ITN's political editor, but has since returned to the BBC as a reporter and stand-in-presenter on The One Show. He is the father of the journalist Mike Sergeant.
- Babita Sharma – Presenter on BBC World News.
- Today.
- Kate Silverton – 2005–2021: BBC News Channel, BBC News at One, BBC Weekend News
- Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the fall of Ceausescu in Bucharest later that year, the Gulf War in 1991 and the Kosovo War in Belgrade in 1999. He has also occasionally presented Newsnightand other news bulletins over the years.
- Valerie Singleton – presenter on the late evening TV programme Tonight from 1975. She was also a regular anchor on Nationwide, PM and The Money Programme, and had previously spent 10 years as a presenter of Blue Peter.
- Biafran War in Nigeria in 1968. He then worked as ITN's industrial correspondent during the 1970s, and he became one of the main newscasters on News At One in 1976. He was the first main anchor on Channel 4 News from 1982 until 1989, when he was succeeded by Jon Snow. Sissons died in 2019.
- Martin Sixsmith – long-serving foreign correspondent, most notably as the BBC's Moscow correspondent during the 1980s and 1990s. He left the BBC in 1997.
- Mike Smartt – presented Breakfast News as it was then, the One, the Six, the Nine and summaries in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as being a correspondent at home and abroad, covering many of the major stories at the time. He was asked to lead the team putting BBC News Online in 1997, and served as editor–in–chief of BBC News Interactive until 2004 when he left the corporation. Smartt now lectures and writes on journalism and new media.
- BBC Breakfast Time during the 1980s. He was best known as a radio and television disc jockey, and for co-hosting The Late, Late Breakfast Show alongside Noel Edmonds, as well as hosting several other quiz shows. He was also a qualified helicopter pilot and a regular participant in motorsports. He died in 2014. He was married to the actress and fellow-television presenter Sarah Greene.
- Rodney Smith – presented The Financial World Tonight and other programmes on Radio Four from 1978 to 1985. After spells with ABC News and later, CNN International, he returned to the BBC where he presented programmes and contributed to political and economic output at the BBC World Service.
- John Snagge – radio newsreader and commentator from the 1920s to the 1960s. He died in 1996.
- NewsWatch from its inception in 2004 until 2012, being succeeded by Samira Ahmed. Snoddy, also a thrice published author, now works freelance for the print news media.
- general election results programmes at the BBC from 1983 to 2005, becoming especially famous for his use of the Swingometer. He also co-hosted Tomorrow's World during the late 1990s. He is the father of the historian Dan Snow, with whom he has co-presented several history programmes, including Battlefield Britain, and the cousin of fellow journalist Jon Snow.
- Rip Off Britain.
- Beat The Teacher and Puzzle Trail, before becoming a long-serving presenter on Tomorrow's World, which he joined in 1985. He now lives and works in the USA.
- Look Northfrom 1980 until 1995.
- Watchdog from 1985 until 1993. During this time, Stapleton also worked as a presenter on Breakfast Time.
- Michael Stewart – reporter for BBC radio news 1980–1984, and stand-in presenter for Today Programme 1982–1984 alongside John Timpson and Brian Redhead and also the PM programme with Valerie Singleton. He moved to BBC television news in 1984, initially reporting for the revamped BBC Breakfast Time. He was a general news reporter until 1990, including covering the fall of Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu in December 1989.
- Francine Stock – main presenter on Newsnight and The Money Programme during the 1990s.
- Moira Stuart – presented many of the main bulletins, including News After Noon, the Six O'Clock News and the Nine O'Clock News, during a long career. She was dropped from her weekend slot by the BBC in 2007, leading to accusations[by whom?] of ageism. She joined BBC Radio 2 in 2010, on which she had been a newsreader before her move into television.[clarification needed] She had also been one of the original presenters on The Adventure Game in the early 1980s, shortly before her move into journalism.
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- John Paul II, he translated his dramas into English. He died in 2010.
- Five Newsin 2007.
- Nieman Journalism Fellow (2010–2011) at Harvard University, studying digital media and citizen journalism, a blog post by Thomas reporting a comment by P.J. Crowley received wide coverage,[19]and resulted in Crowley's resignation.
- Beverley Thompson – originally worked as a presenter and reporter on South East Todayfrom 2001 until 2009.
- Jeremy Thompson – reporter on BBC Look North in Leeds during the early 1970s, before moving on to become the BBC's first north of England correspondent in 1977. He joined ITN in 1982, initially as a sports correspondent. He joined Sky News in 1993, originally as head of its Africa bureau, based in Johannesburg. He presented the station's flagship news programme, Live at Five, from 1999 until his retirement in 2016.
- Meridian Tonight.
- Today programme. He died in 2019.
- Andrew Timothy – announcer on the BBC Home Service from 1947 until 1959, becoming the BBC's chief announcer in 1964. In addition, he was one of the first BBC television newsreaders, from July to September 1954, and also the announcer on The Goon Show from 1951 until 1953. He died in 1990. He was the father of the actor Christopher Timothy, who featured in the BBC's All Creatures Great and Small and Doctors.
- BBC2 news programme, from its 1964 launch until 1970, when he joined BBC Radio 4's Todayprogramme. He died in 2005.
- Nationwide, in which he covered the skateboarding duck story.[clarification needed] He died from cancer in 2008, aged 73.
- Polly Toynbee – BBC's social affairs editor from 1988 to 1995.
- Nationwide during this period. He was previously an actor, but was best known as the first male presenter on Blue Peterfrom 1958 until 1967. He died in 1992.
- Spotlight (originally called South West at Six) in the early 1960s. She later became the first female newsreader on Radio 4in 1974. She died in 2014.
- Heirs of Slavery.
- Deepak Tripathi – South Asia correspondent reporting from Afghanistan, India and elsewhere.
- Mark Tully – India correspondent until 1994.
- BBC2on its launch in 1964.
- Bill Turnbull – main presenter on BBC Breakfast from 2001 until 2016. He had also presented the Six O'Clock News, Ten O'Clock News and News 24, as well as Songs of Praise. He later became a presenter on Classic FM. He died in 2022, following a long battle with cancer.
- Newsround's space editor until the mid-1980s. He died in 2013.
- John Tusa – main presenter of BBC 2's Newsnight programme from 1980 to 1986. He also presented the One O'Clock News during the 1990s.
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- Chris Vacher – main anchor on the BBC's Points West from 1983 until his retirement in 2011. He previously held the record as the longest–serving presenter on any British local news programme: however, this record has since been beaten by the former main anchor on Look East, Stewart White, who presented the latter programme from 1984 until 2021.
- Victoria Valentine (formerly Fritz) – news and business presenter at BBC World News and BBC Breakfast until 2023.
- Queen's coronationand similar events. He died in 1987.
- Michael Vestey – BBC foreign affairs and defence correspondent, and occasional presenter of The World Tonight, on Radio 4. He died in 2006, aged 61.
- Channel 5's weekday morning current affairs show, formerly called The Wright Stuff. He is the brother of the comedian and actor Tim Vine.
- Midlands Today from 2001 to 2012 and an occasional relief presenter on BBC Breakfast. She had previously worked for Central News.
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- David Walter – former BBC radio and television journalist, programme producer and Paris correspondent for BBC News – he had also worked for ITN. He died in 2012.
- Tyne Tees Televisionin 1971 as a continuity announcer and newsreader, remaining in this role until 1991. He died in 2020.
- Susan Watts – science editor on Newsnight from 1995 until 2013.
- Nationwide from 1971 to 1979. He had previously been a presenter on Look East and About Anglia, and he had also been one of Esther Rantzen's original co-presenters on That's Life! He later became a presenter on the BBC's daytime phone-in programme Open Airduring the late-1980s. He died in 2022.
- The World Today. He later worked in various roles for BBC News, including World affairs correspondent, West Africa correspondent and defence and security correspondent, reporting on wars and disasters around the world. He left BBC News in 2006 to start his own production company.
- Panorama. He joined the BBC in 1947 and became the corporation's longest-serving foreign correspondent, continuing in the role until his death in 2008
- Monitor. He died in 1986
- Tonight. From 1958 on, he presented Whicker's World. He died in 2013.
- Central Independent Television, during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- Richard Whitmore – co–presenter of the BBC Nine O'Clock News with Peter Woods between 1973 and 1981, he was also the main presenter on News After Noon (1981–1986) and remained with BBC News until 1998.
- Brian Widlake – worked for the BBC in the 1970s and 1980s. Best known for co-presenting The Money Programme with Valerie Singleton. He died in January 2017.
- Sixty Minutes in the 1980s. He died in 2000. He was married to Esther Rantzen and the father of television presenter Rebecca Wilcox.
- Sian Williams – main presenter on BBC Breakfast from 2001 until 2012. She also presented many other main news programmes, including the One O'Clock News and Six O'Clock News. She now presents 5 News at 5.
- Panoramaand Town and Around during the late 1950s, before becoming the BBC's first female newsreader in 1960. She was dropped from the role less than a year later, but continued to work on both television and radio as a reporter and interviewer throughout the 1960s. She died in 2019.
- Today Programme and occasionally chaired editions of Any Questions? and Any Answers?. He was also an actor and appeared, invariably as a newsreader or announcer, in many television shows, particularly sitcoms, and films. He died in 1982.
- BBC2 programme Newsroom from 1964 until 1973. He died from cancer in 1995. He was the father of Justin Webb.
- Nationwide during the 1970s, but he was probably best known as one of Esther Rantzen's co-presenters during the early years of That's Life!. He died in 1996.
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- Midlands Today during the late 1970s, he presented several ITV regional programmes during the 1980s and he became the first male newsreader on Sky Newsin 1989. He died in July 2018.
- Jimmy Young – veteran BBC disc jockey and broadcaster. He originally presented Housewives' Choiceon the Light Programme and then became one of Radio 1's first disc jockeys, lasting from 1967 until 1973. He then joined Radio 2, where he hosted his own lunchtime news and current affairs show from 1973 until 2002. He interviewed every British prime minister from 1964 until 2010 and was knighted for his services to broadcasting in 2002. He died in 2016.
- Panorama during this period, and later on Newsnight.
- Hanna Yusuf – reporter and producer with BBC News. She died in September 2019.
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