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- ...ur|Woman's Hour]]'', followed by work as editor, presenter and producer of children's radio programmes. In 1960 she created nine episodes of ''[[w:Four Feather F ...//genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/43af9bb7f0cb4c28b708bc6c538207bc BBC Genome] Woman's Hour, Jill Allgood</ref>7 KB (1,137 words) - 10:58, 23 November 2022
- ...w called ''Songs at the Piano'' and was a regular member of ''[[Children's Hour]]'' on the [[BBC Home Service]] and was the star of ''Nursery Sing Song'' f ...ive years and she acted in numerous radio dramas. It was while recording a children's programme in 1951 that she first worked with [[Tony Warren]], who would lat10 KB (1,464 words) - 13:10, 5 December 2022
- | caption = [[Daphne Oxenford]] was one<br />of the earliest presenters ...fteen-minute slot every weekday afternoon at 1.45, just before ''[[Woman's Hour]]''. Consisting of stories, songs and [[nursery rhyme]]s (often sung by [[E7 KB (1,044 words) - 17:52, 22 December 2022
- In 1948, a children's [[board game]] entitled ''Ask Pickles'' was published by [[jigsaw puzzle]] [[Category:Children's Hour presenters]]8 KB (1,227 words) - 16:24, 11 April 2023
- In the 1950s, Parsons provided the non-singing voice of Tex Tucker in the children's TV puppet series ''[[Four Feather Falls]]'', having put himself forward for ...e Narrator.<ref name=stage/> In 1991 he appeared as the Mayor in the BBC's children's series ''[[Bodger & Badger]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian29 KB (4,217 words) - 13:07, 14 January 2023
- ...dvertisements.<ref name="youtube1" /> He returned in 1974 after subsequent presenters and comedians [[Norman Vaughan (comedian)|Norman Vaughan]] and [[Charlie Wi ...with humorous asides to another camera ("What killed me kills one man per hour in Britain. That's even more than my wife's cooking."). He ended by saying,29 KB (4,199 words) - 23:06, 13 February 2023
- His first appearances on television were as presenter on a 13-part children's series featuring remote controlled puppets, ''The Bumblies'', which he also From 1974 to 1980 he wrote, designed, narrated and presented the children's television programme ''[[Michael Bentine's Potty Time]]'' and made one-off21 KB (3,155 words) - 12:27, 12 December 2022
- * [[List of Have I Got News for You presenters|Guest presenters]] (2002–) ...nd filmed a pilot with a title which aped long-running [[CBBC (TV channel)|Children's BBC]] programme ''[[John Craven|John Craven's]] [[Newsround]]''.38 KB (5,680 words) - 14:54, 27 January 2023
- After commentating for half an hour on Elizabeth II's state visit in 1965 to [[West Germany|Germany]], Dimbleby [[Category:English television presenters]]17 KB (2,516 words) - 15:33, 24 August 2024
- ...hance'', ''[[Twenty Questions]]'', ''Married To Fame'', ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' and occasionally as an outside broadcast interviewer for the [[Today (B ...e (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'' in 1978. Johnston was also one of the presenters of the [[Channel 4]] magazine programme for the over sixties for several ye20 KB (3,078 words) - 23:38, 3 February 2023
- ...wee: The Biography, Bernard Bale, André Deutsch, 2000, p. 2</ref><ref>''An Hour with Jon Pertwee'', broadcast by BBC7 on 30 March 2009</ref> Jon was the so His television career had started off with small parts in children's shows featuring [[Richard Hearne]]'s Mr Pastry character. Later he made an42 KB (6,389 words) - 22:59, 10 September 2024
- ...ran from November 1970 to February 1980 on [[BBC Two|BBC 2]], with 67 half-hour episodes and two forty-five-minute Christmas specials. The series was creat ...d Television]] (LWT) for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. However, after one half-hour Christmas special ("[[Snow White 2 (Goodies episode)|Snow White 2]]") in 1940 KB (5,949 words) - 11:58, 24 August 2024
- ...n to London as a result of his feeling homesick.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The children's front : the impact of the Second World War on British children|last=Buckton ...screen later that year to present ''[[Bruce Forsyth's Big Night]]'', a two-hour Saturday-night show on ITV encompassing a variety of different entertainmen49 KB (6,903 words) - 13:04, 18 March 2023
- ...C]], performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in a one-hour children's show called ''Jigsaw'', with a puppet called "Fuzz", made and operated on t ...e subsequently produced and starred in five episodes of a half-hour weekly children's show, as well as his own weekly evening variety show.<ref name="BBCprofile"88 KB (12,437 words) - 11:39, 1 March 2023
- ...An Audience with Jonathan Miller'' in which he spoke about his life for an hour and then fielded questions from the audience. He also curated an exhibition ...author=PBS | title = Vermeer: Master of Light}} Miller appears in this one-hour program on the painter.38 KB (5,348 words) - 07:58, 11 September 2024
- ...a FMC Meats Merseyside [[abattoir]], he then worked for three years at the Children's Convalescent Home and School in [[West Kirby]], a home for disabled and abu ..., which stood for "Lily, Sandra, and Doris". Devising an act that parodied children's television show ''[[Andy Pandy]]'', they gained bookings across London and110 KB (14,760 words) - 19:34, 27 September 2024
- After two series of ''The Frost Report'' on the [[BBC]], totalling 26 half-hour episodes, Frost moved to [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] after helping to set up [ ...|Nobbs|2007|pp=287–288}}</ref> Previous awards included the [[Variety, the Children's Charity|Variety Club of Great Britain]] Award in 1969, 1974 and 1980, the R70 KB (10,654 words) - 16:58, 14 December 2022
- ...because of the number and relative brevity of its sketches; a typical half-hour TV sketch comedy of the period might have consisted of nine or ten major it ...d [[Arthur Askey]], introduced by Tommy Cockles (Day), himself a parody of presenters of TV history. Atkinson delivers mostly nonsensical jokes, and repeats his54 KB (8,257 words) - 13:46, 25 August 2024
- ...an report; [[Kate Adie]] was a thrill-seeker, and [[BBC]] Head of Bravery. Presenters were also seen: [[Jeremy Paxman]] appeared as uninterested and self-loving, ...s aired reruns of the previous season, NBC broke the special into two half-hour episodes and slotted them into its schedule on 30 August and 6 September of74 KB (10,148 words) - 16:30, 25 August 2024