Peter Hobday – long-serving main presenter on Radio 4's Today. He also presented Newsnight and The Money Programme. He died in 2020. Sir Alastair Burnet – presenter and reporter on Panorama and General Election coverage during the early 1970s: he also presented coverage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips' wedding in 1973. He rejoined ITN in 1976 as a main anchor on News at Ten, remaining there until his retirement in 1991. He died in 2012. Julie Etchingham – presenter on Newsround during the mid-1990s. She later joined Sky News and Five News, but has been a main presenter on ITV News since 2008. Michael Barratt – main anchor on Nationwide from 1969 until 1977, having previously worked as a reporter on Midlands Today. He also presented a number of other television and radio programmes, including Songs of Praise and Gardeners' Question Time. He was married to fellow-former Nationwide presenter Dilys Morgan. He died in 2022. 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.

David Lomax - joined the BBC as a reporter on Nationwide and was later a long-serving reporter on Panorama during subsequent decades. He died in 2014. Roger Cook (journalist) – joined BBC Radio 4's The World At One in 1968 as a presenter and reporter and later worked on PM, Newsnight and Nationwide. He is best known for his long-running investigative ITV series The Cook Report, which ran from 1987 until 1998. Gareth Malone to form All-Star Choir for official BBC Children in Need single 2014". BBC. 25 September 2014. Betsan Powys – joined BBC Wales in 1989 as a reporter and presenter for Wales Today. She took over editorial charge of all BBC Wales' daily political output in 2006, remaining in this role until 2013, when she became Editor of Programmes for BBC Radio Cymru: she left this latter post in 2018. She has also presented the Welsh-language version of Mastermind. Selina Scott – one of the first main presenters on Breakfast Time on its launch in 1983. She had previously been a newsreader on ITN's News at Ten and later went on to co-present The Clothes Show.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. John Pienaar – deputy political editor for BBC News from 2015 until 2020. He originally joined the BBC in 1992 and worked on various news and current affairs programmes as both a presenter and reporter: these included 'Question Time Extra' and Daily Politics. Jill Dando – originally a presenter on Spotlight before becoming a presenter of various national BBC News programmes, as well as others including Holiday and Crimewatch until her murder in 1999. Jamie Owen – long-serving main anchor on Wales Today from 1994 until 2018. He had previously worked as a presenter on BBC Radio 4 and as a continuity announcer on Radio 2 and Radio 3. He also presented BBC Breakfast News and Songs of Praise. He left the BBC in 2018 to join the international broadcaster TRT World.

Gordon Clough – former BBC journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend, PM, The World at One and Round Britain Quiz, the latter of which he was also the question-setter. Formerly worked for the BBC Russian Service, and spoke fluent Russian. He died in 1996. 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? John Craven – long-serving eponymous presenter of the pioneering children's news programme John Craven's Newsround from 1972 to 1989 – the programme was later renamed Newsround. He was also a regular co-presenter on Multicoloured Swap Shop and Saturday Superstore during this period. He left in 1989 to become the main anchor on Countryfile, which he still presents to this day. Prior to Newsround, he had worked for the BBC on Look North in Newcastle upon Tyne and Points West in Bristol.

Sue Beardsmore – long-serving presenter of the regional news programme for the Midlands: Midlands Today, from 1983 until 2003. Donny MacLeod – presenter on Nationwide from 1970 until 1972, before becoming one of the first presenters on Pebble Mill at One, which he hosted until his death in 1984. He also presented The World's Strongest Man in 1982 and 1983. Lamont Poli Dri. Last for years. Expensive but worth it.” (Tried and tested by Mumsnet user hairymuffet)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 Claire Bolderson – presented Newshour on BBC World Service and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4. Left on 20 March 2012