John Craven's Countryfile Handbook

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Caroline Righton – presenter on London Plus from 1985 to 1987. She left to become a presenter on TV AM, but later returned to the BBC to present daytime and Breakfast Time news bulletins. The best 12 photographs will make up the Countryfile Calendar for 2023, which is sold in aid of BBC Children in Need. New for 2023: two children's categories Olivia O'Leary – first senior female presenter on Newsnight, a role she held from 1985–1986. She had previously worked as a print journalist and radio and television presenter in her native Ireland.

Jenni Murray – presenter on BBC Radio Bristol and South Today during the 1970s – she became a presenter on Newsnight in 1983, before moving on to the Today programme. She is best known as a main anchor on Woman's Hour, which she has presented since 1987. Frank Delaney – BBC correspondent in Dublin during the early 1970s, mainly reporting on the Troubles. He later hosted various literary programmes on both television and radio and was himself a much-published author. He died in 2017. The ancient oak woodland around Watersmeet contains a local species of tree called the 'No Parking Whitebeam' - that's its real name, folks. The first one of its kind was found in a layby near Watersmeet with a no parking sign nailed to it. Amazing.Gillian Joseph – read the headlines on BBC Breakfast as well as occasionally presenting the main programme. She also worked for BBC London. She left for Sky News in 2005. Sammy Darko – has worked across most media platforms from TV, Radio and Online for BBC World [2] and BBC Domestic audience. Transfer the pastry to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and brush with melted butter to cover entirely. Repeat with the rest of the pastry and filling to create the second strudel. 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" Susanna Reid – main co-presenter on BBC Breakfast from 2003 until 2014. She left to become a co-anchor on Good Morning Britain.

Lynn Faulds Wood – presenter on Breakfast Time from 1984 to 1986, but she was best known as the main co-presenter (with her husband, John Stapleton), of Watchdog, from 1985 until 1993. She died in 2020. Rageh Omaar – joined the BBC in 1992 as a foreign correspondent. He then worked as Africa Correspondent, and later covered the Iraq invasion. He left in 2006 to join Al Jazeera English.

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Julian Pettifer – reporter for Tonight in the 1960s. He was later the host of the quiz Busman's Holiday during the late-1980s, he narrated the BBC nature programme 'The Living Isles' in 1986 and he presented the ITV series 'Nature Watch' in the 1990s.