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Senior News Editor

Gray, Gavin

13th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Gavin was a senior news editor for BBC News. He also made brief on-screen appearances reading the news.  In March 1957, Donald Baverstock, editor of the current affairs TV programme Tonight, introduced a short news summary within the programme, transmitted from Egton House (where BBC Radio 1 was housed for many years) and read by a senior duty news editor.  Gray read the first news summary on 22nd March 1957.  It turned out to be a short-lived experiment and Gray read the final (in-programme) news summary on 21st August 1957.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network News (UK)

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