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 Krishnan's first broadcasting experience came in 1988, when he became presenter of the BBC's youth discussion programme, 'Open To Question'. During the next ten years with the Corporation, Krishnan presented and reported for 'Newsround' and also anchored 'Newsnight'.
In 1998, he moved across to 'Channel 4 News' where he is a regular presenter and reporter. Krishnan has also been involved with many Channel 4 programmes, including 'Think TV' and 'The Autopsy'.
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 (OBE). Joined the BBC in 1968 working in local radio in Durham. She later worked as a reporter for regional news in Plymouth and Southampton. BBC TV News home reporter, 1979 - 1983; special correspondent, 1982 - 1989; court correspondent 1983 - 1985; chief news correspondent from 1989 - 2003 during which time she had reported from many war zones. Relief news reader in 1982 and 1987 and reporter, BBC TV's 'Panorama' in 1988. She was awarded an OBE in 1993.
Adie retired from BBC TV news in 2003. She now works as a freelance journalist and public speaker.
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 Asad joined the BBC regional news trainee scheme in 1996. In 1997 he got his first TV job reporting and presenting with the BBC in Birmingham. He then moved to BBC Scotland where he was a reporter and presenter, working on programmes such as 'Newsnight Scotland', 'Reporting Scotland', and 'Newsline'.
In 2000 he returned to London where he presented the news bulletins on 'Breakfast', sharing that role with Moira Stuart. He also popped up occasionally on BBC News 24.
In May 2002, he became a presenter/reporter with BBC 'London News'.
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Tazeen graduated from University with a 2:1 in communication studies.
Tazeen started off as a news assistant at ITN. She later became involved in various projects for a number of radio stations. At BBC GLR, she presented a live one hour arts and entertainment show. For BBC Thames Valley radio, she presented a weekly three hour show. She later became involved with BBC Radio 5 Live presenting and producing news, arts and entertainment features.
By the early-2000s, Tazeen was reporting for the BBC Choice entertainment magazine, 'Liquid News'. In July 2001, she became one of the regular presenters of the new BBC Choice news programme, ''60 Seconds'. She continued to present the programme - and the new 'News Show' - following the launch of BBC Three in February 2003.
Other TV projects: presenter/producer, 'East' (BBC).
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Samira is a former BBC news trainee who went on to anchor news programmes on BBC News 24 and BBC World. She was also a reporter for 'Newsnight' and BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme.
She joined 'Channel 4 News' in April 1999 as a general reporter. Samira is now one of the programme's regular presenters.
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 BBC TV News foreign correspondent, 1989 - 1994 and South Africa correspondent from June 1994. News reader on BBC News 24 and then a BBC One news reader from May 1999, deputising on the 'One O'Clock News' and 'Nine O'Clock News'. In 2002, he became the main presenter on the BBC Four news programme, which was simulcast on BBC World. The following year, he became one of the main co-presenters on the 'Six O'Clock News'. From May 2006, George has been presenting a one hour news programme on BBC World (broadcast at 12 noon UK time).
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Matthew became a national BBC correspondent in 1990. He spent some time based in Northern Ireland where he reported on events such as the Shankill bombing, the Greysteel shootings and the first IRA ceasefire. Other notable assignments included the fall of Srebrenica and the Waco massacre.
By 1997, Matthew was based in London, working as a political correspondent at Westminster.
Later in 1997 Matthew joined BBC News 24 as one of the evening presenters. Since then he has presented on the channel in various timeslots; he has also occasionally presented weekend news programmes on BBC One and continues to do so.
He remains at BBC News 24.
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Before joining Thames Television in London as a reporter and news reader, John Andrew was a radio journalist working on BBC Radio Cleveland.
In the early-2000s, he was an occasional presenter on BBC News 24. He's currently on the BBC's political staff.
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 Born in Dublin, Eamonn Andrews began sports commentating for Radio Éireann in 1939 and subsequently worked on various programmes for BBC Radio, including 'Sports Report' between 1950 and 1962.
On television he hosted the BBC's parlour game 'What's My Line?' (1951 - 1963), 'Crackerjack' (1955 - 1964), ABC Television's 'World Of Sport' (1965 - 1968) and 'This is Your Life' until his death in 1987.
He joined Thames Television from ABC in 1968 and was the first anchor of its nightly news magazine programme 'Today' until 1977. At the same time, he was active as a chat show host and children's programmes presenter, as well as being a keen businessman.
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BBC TV weather forecaster from 1956 until 1958. He died in 1979.
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Jack was a BBC TV forecaster from 1956 until 1965. Worked at the Met Office from 1947 until 1983. He died in 1984.
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 Michael Aspel started his career as a BBC TV out-of-vision continuity announcer, from 1957 until 1960, and then news reader, from October 1960 until June 1968. He later moved to presenting children’s programmes including 'Crackerjack' and 'Ask Aspel'.
He later joined LWT as the main anchor of regional show 'The 6 O'Clock Show' from 1982 to 1988 and was a guest presenter on LWT's 'Six O'Clock Live' in 1990 and 1991. He also presented the LWT networked chat show 'Aspel & Company' from 1984 to 1993 and hosted Thames TV's 'Give Us A Clue', TVS' 'Ultra Quiz' in 1983 and the BBC TV versions of 'Blockbusters' in 1987 and 'This Is Your Life' in the 1990s.
He now presents 'The Antiques Roadshow' on the BBC.
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Philip, born 1959, served with the Royal Navy as a forecaster from 1984 until 1994. His broadcasting career began in 1996 with The Weather Network, based in Birmingham and within months he moved to London to appear on The Weather Channel. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in April 1998 and became a BBC TV forecaster in March 1999. Also appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' and international TV channels, BBC Prime and BBC World.
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 Jim was born in 1950 and worked for the Met Office from 1968 until 1986. BBC TV weatherman from February 1979 until December 1984, when in his last broadcast he moved from the maps to a desk in the corner of the Presentation studio to explain to viewers that he had been promoted within the Met Office so would not be appearing on screen anymore. In 1986, Jim moved to Anglia Television and left the company before its in-house weather department was disbanded in favour of the cheaper option of contracting it out. He is now a freelance meteorology consultant and most recently appeared as a relief weatherman on BBC TV South West.
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 ITN newscaster who worked on 'Channel 4 News', 1989 - 1998 and also the ITV 'Morning News', 1990s. Zeinab was also a presenter on 'Channel 4 Daily' in 1990.
In 1998, she joined the BBC, and spent five years working on live political programmes based at Westminster. She then moved to radio, where she presented 'The World Tonight' on BBC Radio 4 and 'Newshour' on the BBC World Service.
In April 2005, Zeinab was announced as the new presenter of 'BBC Four News'.
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 Trevor, who worked for the Met Office from 1941 until 1962, was a veteran forecaster appearing for 30 years, briefly on BBC TV before his long association with the ITV Southern TV contractors - Southern (joined in 1962) and TVS. He retired in the late-1980s, handing over his duties to Carl Tyler. In 1981, Trevor's local popularity was acknowledged when Southern Television granted Trevor his own Saturday night spectacular, 'Trevor Baker's All Weather Show'.
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 (OBE). Born and educated in London, Richard Baker graduated from Cambridge University and served in the Royal Navy during World War 2, returning to London to work as an actor and teacher.
He joined the BBC as a radio announcer on the Third Programme and Home Service from 1950 until 1959.
Baker spoke the first words of the BBC's first television news bulletin - 'News And Newsreel' - on 5 July 1954, with the following announcement: "Here is an illustrated summary of the news. It will be followed by the latest film of events and happenings at home and abroad."
He also read the very first news flash on 31 October 1955 when he announced that HRH The Princess Margaret would not marry Group Captain Peter Townsend.
Baker also presented the BBC London regional programme 'Town and Around' from 1963 until 1967 and also narrated the BBC Children's TV programmes 'Mary, Mungo And Midge' (1969) and 'Teddy Edward' (1973).
He retired from his national news reader role on 31 December 1982 and remains the BBC's longest-serving news reader with 28 years of service. He was also a panellist on BBC TV's 'Face The Music', 1967 until 1984; and a BBC Radio 2 presenter since 1986, where he presented programmes including 'Omnibus' and 'Melodies For You'.
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Matt trained at Cardiff's journalism school. His first broadcasting experience was as a freelance at Red Dragon FM in Cardiff.
In 1999, he joined ITN where he spent two years working for Independent Radio News. In June 2001, Matt moved to the BBC, starting as a reporter on BBC Radio 1's 'Newsbeat' and later moving to a news reading role on the Sara Cox breakfast show. He was also a reporter for the BBC's 'Liquid News'.
Matt joined BBC London in 2003. He became a high-profile presenter there, fronting coverage of the July 07 bombings from King's Cross. In summer 2007, he made his presenting debut on the BBC 'Breakfast' programme.
On August 20 2007, it was announced that Matt would be joining 'Five News' from October 2007.
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Tanya graduated from Oxford with a degree in metallurgy and the science of materials.
Her broadcasting career began in 1993 when she became a business and political reporter for CNBC Europe; she also presented 'The Moneywheel' and 'FT Business Tonight' there.
Later Tanya presented a nightly business news programme for Sky News; at CNN International she reported from the London International Financial Futures Exchange. She also worked for London based News Direct Radio 97.3.
Tanya joined the BBC in 1998. She has worked as a reporter and presenter for 'Working Lunch' and was also the regular business presenter and occasional main co-presenter on BBC One's 'Breakfast'.
Since 2001, she has been a regular business presenter on BBC World and BBC News 24. She has been the New York based presenter for 'World Business Report' since 2005.
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Born in 1930, Keith worked at the Met Office from 1947 until 1989. He was a BBC TV forecaster from May 1972 until January 1978 and also on BBC radio from 1971 until 1978. From 1978 until 1985 he worked at Southampton Weather Centre appearing on BBC Southampton's 'South Today' and later was a relief weather presenter on 'Breakfast News' in 1990.
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 Darren has worked at the Met Office since 1989, including time at the Glasgow Weather Centre and in 1992 he joined the Leeds Weather Centre, appearing from 1994 on the BBC's 'Look North'. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in October 1997, presenting primarily on BBC News 24; he has been a regular BBC TV forecaster since July 1999.
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 One of the original trio of BBC TV in-vision announcers at Alexandra Palace appearing from 1936 to 1939. She famously re-opened the television service in 1946 after the end of the Second World War. She returned briefly in the summer of 1952.
Jasmine was also a presenter of BBC children's TV's 'For Deaf Children', 1952 to 1954 and in 1957. She suffered a stroke in 1980 and died on 21 July 1991.
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 Jennie graduated from Warwick University in 1972 after which she began her career in journalism. For five years she worked on local papers as a reporter.
In 1977, she joined the BBC as sub-editor in BBC Radio News. BBC radio news reporter, 1985 - 1989; BBC TV news reporter, 1989; court reporter, 1989 - 1990.
Jennie was appointed in the BBC's court and royal correspondent in 1990. She became a relief news reader from March 1991. She was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' from 1988, and also a relief presenter on 'Breakfast News' in 1992 and 1994.
She's remembered by many for her stint in the jungle on ITV 1’s 'I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here' (February 2004) when she was buried in a coffin full of rats and also ate a variety of live insects.
More recently she became one of the presenters of the BBC’s 'Cash In The Attic'. She is also a regular contributor on Channel 4’s 'Countdown'.
Other recent TV projects: 'Celebrities Under Pressure'; 'Too Many Cooks'; 'Stars In The Fast Cars'; 'The Big Call'.
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Jules presented on 'BBC LDN' and 'Breakfast' in the early-2000s.
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 Frank was a presenter on BBC North East's regional news programme from 1962 until 1964.
The former BBC TV 'Grandstand' and 'Breakfast Time' anchorman joined LWT in the late-1980s to present 'Six O'Clock Live', the company's flagship news programme introduced as a response to the IBA's concern about its previously poor local news output.
This news programme was complemented by 'LWT News' through the rest of the weekend. Frank also did a stint as presenter of TV-am's 'Good Morning Britain'. He also worked for Sky News in the early days where he presented 'The Frank Bough Interview', and also presented the Rugby Union World Cup on ITV in 1991.
He presented shows on LBC radio in the mid-1990s. His most recent TV appearance was a guest appearance on the 'Grandstand' 40th anniversary special.
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Ana graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1997, with a BA Hons in broadcast journalism. She spent three years with Children's BBC (1998 - 2001), presenting the links between the programmes. She then moved to a reporting job with BBC Three's 'Liquid News' and also became a radio presenter with LBC.
Since 2005, Ana has been presenting for Sky News.
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 David served with the Royal Navy from 1987. He joined the Met Office in 1995 and the BBC Weather Centre in February 1995, initially appearing on the BBC's satellite channels. He was a regular BBC TV forecaster from July 1996 and moved to Plymouth in 2002 to take over from long serving 'Spotlight' weatherman Craig Rich.
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 Tim was a BBC TV in-vision announcer and news reader from 1957 until 1959 and an ITN newscaster from 1959 until 1962. He was also a presenter on the BBC Light Programme in 1965.
He later became a Conservative MP.
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 Fern Britton got her first television job with Westward Television in Plymouth as an in-vision continuity announcer and news reader from 1980. In 1982 she was a presenter on BBC South West's 'Spotlight' and a year later she was a newscaster for BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time'.
She was headhunted by TVS in Southampton by new managing director Greg Dyke in 1985 and became main co-anchor of the nightly news magazine, 'Coast To Coast', with Fred Dinenage. Fern left the company in the early-1990s and was soon back on national television, standing in for Judy Finnigan on ITV's 'This Morning'. She is best known for her role as host of the hit cookery game show 'Ready, Steady, Cook', and is currently co-host with Philip Schofield of ITV's 'This Morning'.
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Ben was educated at Sutton Valance School and Keble College, Oxford. He received a diploma with distinction from the Cardiff Centre for Journalism Studies.
On leaving college, Ben joined Radio Clyde as a reporter. In 1985, he took up a reporting job at Radio City Liverpool. A year later, he joined Independent Radio News, covering stories such as the Hungerford massacre.
In July 1988, he joined BBC TV News. During his career at the Corporation, he has held a number of key positions within the news division: foreign affairs correspondent (1988 - 1991), reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War; Moscow correspondent (1991 - 1995), covering the collapse of communism and the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev; foreign affairs correspondent (1995 - 1998); special correspondent (1998 - 2006), covering domestic and international stories.
Since early-2006, Ben has been an anchor on BBC News 24, covering the 7pm - 10pm weekday shift.
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 Bill worked at the Met Office from 1941 until 1984. He was a BBC TV and radio forecaster from Sept 1959 until 1962. From 1967 until 1984 he worked at Met Office HQ in Bracknell as a senior forecaster and in retirement appeared as relief forecaster for TVS from 1984 until 1992.
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 Joined the BBC in 1989 as researcher on 'Panorama'. She became a reporter on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' in 1992 and fronted 'Newsroom South East' breakfast bulletins in 1993.
After time as a reporter on BBC Two's current affairs series 'First Sight' in 1994, Fiona became a relief presenter on 'Breakfast News' in 1996 and 1997. She was relief BBC TV national news reader in October and November 1997, and joined permanently in March 1999, mainly presenting the 'Six O'Clock News'. She later became one of the regular presenters of the 'Ten O'Clock News'.
She presented 'The Antiques Show' in 1999 and later 'Crimewatch UK' alongside Nick Ross.
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 Began his broadcasting career on BBC Radio Bristol and then moved to Harlech Television as a reporter. Joined BBC TV News as a home reporter, 1973 - 1975; industrial correspondent, 1975 - 1976; UK North Sea energy correspondent, 1976; Scotland correspondent, 1980; special correspondent, 1981 - 1983; South Africa correspondent, 1983 - 1987.
Michael Buerk's report on the famine and drought in Ethiopia led to Bob Geldof organising the successful Live Aid concert in 1985.
Buerk was a BBC TV news reader from January 1982 until August 1983, and again in February/March 1985. He joined the newsreading team permanently from October 1987, with his trademark wink at the end of bulletins. He started off as one of the main presenters on the 'One O'Clock News' and later moved to the 'Nine O'Clock News'.
Buerk retired from BBC TV News in late-2002. He has also presented '999', the BBC's Eclipse '99 coverage and BBC Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze'.
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 (Sir). One of ITN's most famous newscasters, Alastair Burnet joined ITN as political editor in 1963 for a year. He went on to report for 'Dateline', 1963 - 1964, and 'Dateline Westminster' at the same time.
He became a relief ITN newscaster from February 1963 until 1964 and became permanent as an original member of 'News At Ten' team in July 1967 until 1972.
He left to join BBC TV's 'Panorama' as a presenter from 1972 until 1974.
Burnet returned to the ITN newscasting team from June 1976 until August 1991. He has also presented Thames TV's 'TV Eye' and 'This Week'. During his career, he also had spells in print journalism as editor, The Economist, 1965 - 1974, and Daily Express, 1974 - 1976. He was knighted in 1984.
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Mike started out as an actor and was also the lead singer in a band. He later decided that journalism was the right path for him and joined the Hampshire Chronicle newspaper in Winchester. He also had spells at newspapers in Windsor and Derby.
BBC Radio Solent gave Mike his first broadcasting break in 1990; he was a trainee reporter at the station. Television was next: Mike was a news, sport and entertainment reporter/presenter with the BBC's 'South Today' programme.
Mike was one of the first faces to appear on BBC News 24 when it launched in 1997. He still presents the sports news there and on BBC World.
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 Stephanie's broadcasting career began with BBC Northern Ireland in the mid-1980s where she presented a movie review programme, 'The Video Picture Show'. She later became a news presenter with Sky News.
By the late-1990s Stephanie was freelancing and has turned up presenting the news on GMTV and BBC News 24.
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 Presenter, BBC Bristol's 'Points West', 1983 - 1985 then moved to London as a news reader on 'London Plus' in 1985. She became a London regional and national news reader on BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time', 1985 - 1986. BBC TV news reader on 'News Afternoon' and 'News View' from March 1986 until December 1986.
She left for ITN in June 1987 and stayed until June 1992. After this she was a relief presenter on ITV's 'The Time, The Place' in 1993. She was a news reader on BBC World in 1992 and since 1994 has been heard voicing 'Transworld Sports' on Channel 4.
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Jilly's first TV presenting job was with TSW in the 1980s, where she was a news reader. By the late-1980s, she was presenting national BBC TV news bulletins. She subsequently moved to ITN, where she presented bulletins for ITV and the 'Channel Four Daily'.
Jilly currently runs a media skills company (link below).
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 David Cass joined BBC TV 'Look East' in February 1973 and during his time there was a general news reporter and weekend news reader. While there, he opened the 'West of the region' operation, based in Huntingdon, in 1975.
David moved to national BBC TV news in 1977 as a freelance general reporter before specialising in sport and then joining the full-time staff in 1978 until 1984.
He joined ITN and during his time there was the launch presenter of ITN's night-time service 'Into The Night', and Washington presenter/correspondent of 'Channel 4 Daily' from 1990 until 1992.
From 1993 until 1998 he was a front line presenter for BBC World Television. Among his credits was that he developed the 'Newshour Asia And Pacific' strand.
In more recent years, David has worked as a TV presenter and consultant in the Middle East.
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 Suazanne was born 1962 and has worked at the Met Office since 1985. She was a BBC TV forecaster from March 1989 until 1999. Also broadcast on BBC radio and appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' in 1992. Daughter of ex-Man Utd & England football legend Sir Bobby Charlton.
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 (Sir). Former athlete who represented Great Britain in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. He became ITN's first newscaster on 22 September 1955 and stayed until May 1956.
Chataway left to join the reporting team on BBC TV's 'Panorama' until 1959. He was a narrator on BBC Two's 'Horizon' from 1966 to 1968.
He left broadcasting for politics and was a Conservative MP from 1959 until 1966 and 1969 until 1974. He served as a Government Minister from 1970 until 1974. Left for business management, and was knighted in 1995.
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Adrian has a degree in English literature from the University of London. He gained a diploma in journalism in Cardiff and subsequently worked as a sports reporter at the News Of The World.
In the early-1990s, he joined the BBC for three weeks' work experience on 'Business Breakfast'; however, the visit landed him a permanent position as an assistant producer. By October 1993, he was presenting BBC Radio 4's 'The Financial World Tonight'. In September the following year he was one of the main presenters on BBC Two's new lunchtime business programme, 'Working Lunch'. Also in 1994, he became the presenter of his own radio business programme 'Wake Up To Money' on BBC Radio 5 Live.
From August 2001, he has presented the late edition of BBC Radio 5 Live's football phone-in show '6-0-6' on Wednesdays. In Autumn 2004, he was appointed presenter of the new Sunday night 'Match Of The Day 2' on BBC Two.
In 2006, Adrian's BBC presenting work was going from strength to strength. He fronted the new 'Apprentice' spin-off show - 'The Apprentice - You're Fired' - where the latest person to be fired by Alan Sugar was interviewed. He also presented the BBC's nightly 2006 World Cup highlights programmes. In August and September 2006, he was one of the main co-presenters of the BBC's new daily, early evening topical magazine show, 'The One Show', during the programme's four week trial run.
In September 2006, Adrian announced that he would be giving up his BBC Radio 5 Live work to concentrate on his television career.
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Tom was born in 1911 and worked at the Met Office until 1964. He was the second BBC TV forecaster from January 1954 until 1958; he also appearerd on BBC radio. He died in 1980.
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 Born in 1957, Peter joined the Met Office in 1974. BBC TV national forecaster from July 1991 until 2002. He has also broadcast on BBC radio and appeared on BBC TV's 'Breakfast News' in 1993. He moved to regional TV in 2002 and appears regularly on BBC TV's 'London News'.
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Peter is a former Sky News and BBC News 24 presenter.
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 Stephen was a presenter with Sky News and CNN for 12 years. From 2000 until 2005, he presented the news on BBC World and occasionally on BBC News 24. He also presented the BBC's technology programme 'Click Online' from 2000 until 2005. In December 2005, Stephen announced that he would be joining Al-Jazeera International.
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 Attachment as BBC TV announcer in 1980, mainly heard on BBC Two. Sports presenter BBC Radio 4's 'Today' in 1985 - TBC and BBC TV's 'Breakfast Time', 1985 - 1986. Presenter on LWT's 'Friday Now' in 1988 and a reporter on 'Six O'Clock Live', 1989. Currently presents cricket coverage for Sky Sports.
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 Sue's broadcasting career began in 1974 in radio. She joined Capital Radio where she was a presenter and producer.
Headhunted by the BBC, Sue subsequently presented many programmes across the BBC radio networks, most notably 'You And Yours' which she presented for nearly five years. She also deputised for Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2.
Sue's first TV role came in 1976 when she joined the 'Nationwide' team. She remained with the programme until 1982. She also presented the local South East news programme 'South East At 6',
From 1982 until 1995, she co-hosted the annual 'Children In Need' TV appeal alongside Terry Wogan. In 1983, with the arrival of breakfast TV, Sue became a regular face on 'Breakfast Time'. With Nick Ross, she co-presented 'Crimewatch UK' from its launch in 1984 until 1996.
Since the mid-1990s she has presented 'Making History' on BBC Radio 4. In March 2006, she published her first novel 'On Dangerous Ground'.
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 Born in the UK, Daniel's family moved to the USA in 1974. He began his broadcasting career in 1995 at WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and later moved to KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas. He joined the BBC Weather Centre in December 1997 and became a BBC TV weather forecaster from December 1998 until 2000 and again from 2004 including appearances on BBC News 24 and BBC TV's 'Breakfast'.
Daniel has something of a cult following due to his individual style of presentation, including his standard 'point-and-nod' sign-off: "That's the weather...for now", and his trademark reference to the temperatures as "The Numbers".
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Andrew graduated from Glasgow University with an MA in French and philosophy. His first job was in the sports department of Scot FM in Edinburgh in 1997. He later moved to London where he freelanced for the BBC and Sky News.
In October 2000, he went full time at the BBC, presenting sports bulletins on BBC Radios 1, 2, 4 and 5 Live. Since 2003, he has presented sports bulletins on BBC News 24 and BBC World. He also provides rugby and golf commentary for BBC television and radio.
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Dominic spent some time as an actor before opting to do down the journalism route. He took gained a post-graduate diploma at the Centre for Journalism Studies at Cardiff University.
In 1995, he joined the BBC in Plymouth as a trainee reporter, working on the 'Spotlight' TV programme.
In the late-1990s, he moved to the BBC in London working as a producer and presenter. Since the early-2000s, he has been working as a reporter and presenter for BBC News 24.
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 BBC East Midlands reporter, 1977 - 1980; BBC TV News home reporter, 1980 - 1983; BBC TV national news reader from July 1982 until October 1986. She presented BBC Radio 4's 'PM', 1987 - TBC.
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Cowling was the very first BBC TV forecaster appearing from January 1954 until February 1957 from the Lime Grove Studios. He worked at the Met Office from 1939 until 1981 and was based at the London Weather Centre and then promoted to RAF Bomber Command where he worked overseas in Singapore, Malta, Bahrain and Germany. Later he was a senior instructor at the Met Office College and principal forecaster at Heathrow Airport. In retirement, for many years, he played golf each week with fellow ex-TV weathermen Jack Scott and Bert Foord.
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 (OBE). John joined the BBC in Newcastle working in local radio and television
and later moved to BBC Bristol where he presented a children's magazine series, 'Search' from 1971 until 1972.
In April 1972 he began his 17 year association with the children's news programme that bore his name - 'John Craven's Newsround'. From 1986 - 1989 he was also the programme's editor and made regular appearances on the news desk on Saturday mornings on 'Multi-Coloured Swap Shop' and 'Saturday Superstore'.
John left 'Newsround' in 1989 to present the countryside news programme 'Countryfile'. He was awarded the OBE in 2000 for services to rural and children's broadcasting.
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