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BBC Newsreaders and Journalists
Questions - Name the newsreader/journalist
- Poached from ITV's News at Ten by the BBC to launch Breakfast Time. First host of The Clothes Show.
- Presented Nationwide during the 1970s and went on to present Desert Island Discs from 1988 until 2006.
- Entertainment correspondent for Newsroom South East during the late 1980s whose best known for Ready Steady Go!
- Main presenter of Today on BBC Radio 4 from 1974 to 1976. Best known as the main anchor on Grandstand from 1979 to 1991.
- Known for reporting from war zones and chief news correspondent for BBC News. Her first major assignment was the London Iranian Embassy siege.
- Broadcaster who presented Letter from America.
- BBC war correspondent who said: "I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back."
- Sometimes known as "the man in the white suit" who left the BBC in 1997 to become an MP.
- Host of the The Krypton Factor who anchored North West Tonight until his retirement in 2011.
- Amateur triathlete and long-serving presenter on BBC Breakfast who departed the programme in September 2021.
- Former professional goalkeeper who became a regular reporter on Midlands Today during the late-1970s.
- BBC presenter who was also the first female newsreader at ITN.
- Michael Buerk and Peter Sissons left the BBC Ten O'Clock News on 19 January 2003 to make way for which two new presenters?
- Won the title of Miss Great Britain in 1984 before presenting BBC Breakfast Time.
- The first female newsreader of the BBC Nine O'Clock News.
- Political broadcaster who was the presenter of Question Time from 1979 to 1989.
- Presenter and reporter best known for having presented Crimewatch from 1984 until 2007.
- First to read the news on BBC Television in front of a camera. Retired from BBC in 1981 and went on to present Treasure Hunt.
- Acknowledged as being the UK's first female African-Caribbean TV newsreader.
- Former Blue Peter presenter who also presented the BBC's Money Programme from 1980 to 1988.
Were you right?
- Selina Scott
- Sue Lawley
- Cathy McGowan
- Desmond Lynam
- Kate Adie
- Alistair Cooke
- Brian Hanrahan
- Martin Bell
- Gordon Burns
- Louise Minchin
- David Icke
- Anna Ford
- Hugh Edwards and Fiona Bruce
- Debbie Greenwood
- Angela Rippon
- Sir Robin Day
- Nick Ross
- Kenneth Kendall
- Moira Stewart
- Valerie Singleton