Tomasz was born in Gdansk, Poland. He attended school both in the UK and his home country, where he developed a keen interest in the weather and natural sciences at a young age.
…Brown, Ben
Ben was born in Ashford, Kent. He is the son of former ITN newscaster Antony Brown.
…Burak, Lukwesa
Lukwesa was born in Ndola, Zambia in 1974 (date unknown). She is named after her royal tribal family.
…Rizzini, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Austen was born on 19th November (year unknown), in Bexley. She lived and studied in both France and Spain and is fluent in both languages.
…Dutton, Liam
Liam was born in Cardiff. He graduated in 2002 with a BSc (Hons) Geography degree from the University of Wales in Swansea.
…Frais, Carrie
Carrie was born in Welwyn Garden City. She began her broadcasting career spending a year as a newsreader/producer on Heart FM (from June 1995). She then joined LBC’s News Direct, London’s first 24-hour news station, as a news and showbusiness presenter/reporter/producer (June 1996 – June 1998).
…Lear, Louise
Born Louise Barden in Sheffield. In 1988, she graduated with a BA Hons in Music and Drama from the University of Middlesex. Her first job was as a researcher for Children’s BBC. She then joined an independent radio production company as a sports presenter, introducing events such as Wimbledon and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
…Dickson, Peter
Peter was born in Belfast. His name and face may not be as familiar as his voice, which has featured in some of the biggest UK TV entertainment shows.
…Kettley, John
John was born in Halifax. He was employed by the Met Office from 1970 until 2000. He had a spell working at the Nottingham Weather Centre (1980 – 1985), where he made appearances on BBC Birmingham’s Midlands Today (1980 – 1983) and on Central TV (1984 – 1985).
…Scott-Joynt, Hannah
Hannah’s love of radio began in her teenage years. She gained a degree in radio, film and TV at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her first broadcasting job was with BBC Radio in Herts, Beds and Bucks. She moved into television as a network announcer on BBC One and BBC Two (1997 – 2000). She was the launch announcer on BBC Choice. In 2000, she appeared on BBC One’s daytime show Talking TV and showed presenter Vanessa Feltz behind-the-scenes of network control – and Vanessa even did two short daytime BBC One links.
…Everard, Martin
Martin’s first on-air role was as a relief announcer with BBC Northern Ireland in the 1960s. From there he moved to London and gradually moved up through the ranks of TV presentation, before moving into programme production. He took some time out from his BBC job to participate in the British America’s Cup Challenge (Lionheart) (1979 – 1980).
…Adey, Dave
Dave was a BBC TV network announcer in the early 1990s. He was the duty announcer at closedown for the final playout of the BBC One COW (Computer Originated World) symbol in the early hours of 16th February 1991.
…Hammond, John
John was born in Bosham, West Sussex, the son of a farmer. After taking an interest in the weather from the age of four, he studied geography at the University of Salford, followed by meteorology at the University of Birmingham.
…Alagiah, George
George was born in Colombo, Ceylon. His parents moved to Ghana in West Africa in 1961. He read politics at Durham University and whilst there wrote for and became editor of the student newspaper Palatinate; he was also a sabbatical officer of Durham Students’ Union.
…Giles, Bill
Bill was born in Dittisham, near Dartmouth in Devon. He joined the Meteorological Office at Exeter in January 1957 on leaving the Bristol College of Science and Technology. Later that year, as an 18-year-old, he was sent to Christmas Island to observe the meteorological effects of the H bomb tests and later recalled seeing the “horrendous clouds”. Bill was based in Germany as an observer with the RAF (1961 – 1963) and worked as a lecturer at the Met Office’s training college (1968 – 1970).
…Kirkwood, Carol
Carol was born in Morar. After attending Napier University in Edinburgh, where she gained a BA in Commerce, she initially joined the BBC’s secretarial reserve in London, in 1984.
…Finighan, Adrian
Adrian is a Welsh journalist. He joined the BBC in 1988, working in local radio as a reporter and producer.
…Fox, Everton
Everton was born in Cambridge in 1964. He worked in the Department of Social Security as a civil servant before joining the Met Office in 1991. He spent a year at the Norwich Weather Centre. Having completed the forecaster foundation programme in March 2000, which included on-the-job training at RAF Marham in Norfolk, he went on to become a forecaster at the London Weather Centre where he worked for three months.
…Bertram, Trish
Born in Royston, Herts, Trish started out as a stage manager in the theatre and was the longest-serving female TV announcer in the UK. She announced live for LWT, ITV, Channel 5, BBC World, BSB Galaxy, Super Channel, TVS, Westcountry TV and The Family Channel.
…Yates, Alastair
Alastair was a broadcaster whose career spanned four decades. He was born and brought up in Burton-upon-Trent.
…Badawi, Zeinab
Zeinab’s broadcasting career began as an ITN newscaster, working on Channel 4 News (1989 – 1998). She also presented on the ITV Morning News in the 1990s and on the 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’s news programme, The World. The programme – also broadcast on BBC World News – was rebranded as World News Today in May 2007. She continued to present the programme until 2013.
…Escolme, John
John obtained a BA (Hons) in communication, cultural studies and public media from the University of Leeds.
…Avery, Philip
Philip – born in 1959 – served with the Royal Navy as a forecaster (1984 – 1994). His broadcasting career began in 1996 with The Weather Network, based in Birmingham. 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 national weather forecaster in March 1999. He appeared on BBC TV’s Breakfast News and international TV channels, BBC Prime and BBC World.
Amroliwala, Matthew
Mehrwan F. Amroliwala was born in Leeds in 1962, the son of a Royal Air Force officer with roots in India as a Parsi Zoroastrian.
…Hill, Jane
Jane has been a presenter on the BBC News Channel (formerly BBC News 24) since its launch in November 1997. She currently presents the BBC News at Five and is a relief presenter on the BBC News at One.
Ahmed, Samira
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.