John Craven's Countryfile Handbook

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Paul McDowell – presenter and reporter on John Craven's Newsround from 1979 until 1985. He succeeded Lucy Mathen as the programme's dedicated reporter in 1980. 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. David Dimbleby – veteran BBC presenter and journalist over 6 decades. He began as a reporter for BBC Bristol during the 1960s, later becoming a presenter on Yesterday's Men in 1971 and then a long-serving main anchor on Panorama. He also briefly presented Nationwide during the early 1980s, the BBC's election coverage for 10 years from 1979 and 'This Week Next Week' from 1984 until 1988, and he commentated on many significant outside broadcasts, including the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, 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. John Pitman – long-serving BBC journalist: he originally worked on 'Braden's Week' during the late-1960s, but later became best known as a regular reporter on Man Alive. He died in 2018. It is said that the best apples in Europe come from Trentino Alto-Adige, where apple orchards are situated at very high altitudes.

Elizabeth Cowell – one of the first three presenters, from when the BBC Television Service started in 1936, and returned after the war in 1946. She died in 1998. 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. a b Grant, Olly (23 November 2011). "Interview: John Craven on the 40th anniversary of Newsround". The Telegraph . Retrieved 21 May 2016. John Craven chaired the judging panel, joined by wildlife photographer and filmmaker, Hamza Yassin, plus Alison Steadman. John Craven (right) and Hamza Yassir (left)./Credit: BBC. What is the Countryfile Calendar competition?

Marjorie Anderson – leading BBC radio broadcaster on the World War II BBC Forces Programme, and from 1945 on the BBC Light Programme. She died in 1999. Rico Hizon – presenter of Asia Business Report from 2003 to 2020 and Newsday, from 2011 to 2020 at BBC World News. He is currently with CNN Philippines. Sally Magnusson – main presenter on Breakfast Time and Breakfast News during the 1980s and 1990s. She has also presented Sixty Minutes, Songs of Praise and Reporting Scotland. She is the daughter of the late Magnus Magnusson. 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. Robin Aitken – BBC journalist since 1978. Left in 2005, ending his career on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme. Aitken published Can We Trust the BBC? (Continuum Press) in February 2007, which asserted the BBC was guilty of an "unconscious, institutionalised Leftism"

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. 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.Lynette Lithgow – joined BBC News as a newsreader in 1988, working mainly on daytime and evening bulletins, and on BBC2's Newsview: she joined the BBC's world television service on its launch in 1991. She had previously worked as a presenter on Midlands Today and as a continuity announcer for Granada Television during the 1980s. She was murdered in her native Trinidad in 2001. 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 he eventually became their 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.

Susanna Reid – main co-presenter on BBC Breakfast from 2003 until 2014. She left to become a co-anchor on Good Morning Britain.Max Hastings – former foreign correspondent on the BBC's Twenty-Four Hours, for which he reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars. He is also a long-serving print journalist and a much-published author. He was knighted in 2002.

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John Dunn (radio presenter) – 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. 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. Peter Haigh – English in–vision announcer for BBC Television in the early 1950s, before moving to Come Dancing. He died in 2001.