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Lawley, Sue

28th November 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Sue was born in Dudley in the West Midlands. She graduated with a BA Hons in modern languages from the University of Bristol.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network News (UK), Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC South West, Presenters: ITV Network

Trethowan, Ian

27th October 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Sir Ian was born in High Wycombe. He left at school at 16 and joined the Daily Sketch as an office boy. He began his career as a journalist and parliamentary lobby correspondent.

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

Langley, Bob

25th September 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Bob was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He worked in insurance and served in the RAF, before travelling around America, He later worked as a lumberjack in Canada.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network News (UK), Presenters: ITV - Tynes Tees TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Pyrah, Gill

11th September 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Gill was born in Yorkshire in 1951 (date unknown). She has a degree in psychology.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Midlands, Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: ITV - Central TV

Trueman, Brian

8th September 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Brian was born in Manchester. In 1946, he made his acting debut in Plover Patrol for BBC Radio in Manchester.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Granada TV, Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV - Granada TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Burak, Lukwesa

18th August 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Lukwesa was born in Ndola, Zambia in 1974 (date unknown). She is named after her royal tribal family.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC East Midlands, Presenters: BBC International, Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network News (UK), Presenters: BBC Regional Weather

Chakrabarti, Reeta

10th August 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Reeta was born in London to an Indian Bengali family and was raised in Birmingham.

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

Masters, Ian

29th April 2022 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Ian was born in 1940 in Goffs Oak, Herts. He worked at BBC Radio Sheffield at its launch in 1967 and at BBC TV North West in the early 1970s. He was a regional compére on Come Dancing (1972 – 1973) and joined BBC TV’s Look East, where he was a popular presenter for a decade (1973 – 1983).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC North West, Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC North West, Presenters: BBC Regional News

Parker, Bruce

20th April 2022 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Bruce was brought up in Guernsey. He was educated at Elizabeth College, followed by the University of Wales. He has a postgraduate degree from Reading University.

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

Haycocks, Paddy

9th April 2022 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Paddy was born in Portsmouth. He worked at BFBS radio (British Forces Broadcasting Service) in Cyprus (1966 – 1968). He performed various roles including tape editing, reporting, presenting and studio management (1966 – 1968).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC South, Presenters: Channel 4, Presenters: ITV Network

Cowan, Barry

15th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Barry Cowan was one of the leading faces of BBC Northern Ireland news and current affairs during the worst of The Troubles in the 1970s and 1980s. He was much-respected by broadcast colleagues and by politicians. Born in Coleraine, County Derry/Londonderry, Barry was educated at Ballymena Academy and graduated in physics from Queen’s University, Belfast. His broadcasting career began in the early 1970s with the BBC, where he was a studio manager. But the man who would eventually become a formidable on-air talent quickly moved into reporting and presenting. In 1974, he became the main anchor on BBC Northern Ireland’s flagship current affairs/news programme, Scene Around Six.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Northern Ireland, Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: RTÉ

Aziz, Khalid

5th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Professor Khalid Aziz LVO, DL, FRSA was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1953. His broadcasting career began at the BBC as a producer at BBC Radio Leicester (1969). He soon moved into TV reporting on the BBC’s Look North (1977 – 1979) and then became its youngest presenter (1979 – 1981), at the age of 24.  On 28th March 2008, he joined former presenter Sue Wilkins, along with current presenters Harry Gration and Christa Ackroyd for the programme’s 40th anniversary edition from the National Media Museum.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC Yorkshire, Presenters: ITV - TVS, Presenters: ITV Regional News

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