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London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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Yalding House
Yalding House is a building at 152–156 Great Portland Street, London, England, where BBC Radio 1 has been based since 1996.
Yalding House is also home to BBC Radio 1Xtra, the digital sister station of BBC Radio 1 and previously home to BBC Switch, the umbrella brand for the BBC's youth output across radio, television and online until its closure in 2010. It is also the production base for the stations' news output: 1Xtra News and Radio 1's Newsbeat.
Radio 1 was previously based at Egton House, which was demolished in 2003 to make way for the new Broadcasting House extensions. Radio 1 will move to the new 'John Peel Wing' (formerly 'Egton Wing') in Broadcasting House, built on the same site as Egton House, in Autumn 2012. The wing is named after veteran DJ John Peel who broadcast on the station from its launch in 1967 up until his death in 2004.
Radio 3 previously occupied the building with the BBC Central Music Library located on the ground floor and basement. The building's former role as a car showroom made it ideal for the heavy shelving required to store the collection.
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Ally McCrae
Ally McCrae (born 1987), is best known as the presenter of BBC Radio 1 Scotland's show, and as co-creator of Detour Scotland. In 2011, Scotland on Sunday ranked him Scotland's 9th "Most Eligible Man".
On November 2, 2010 it was announced that Ally McCrae would take over from Vic Galloway as presenter of BBC Radio 1 Introducing show as part of a UK wide shake up of BBC Radio 1's Introducing setup.
Detour Scotland was primarily created as a podcast for featuring unsigned Scottish bands but soon gained a reputation for putting on gigs, including the 'The Wee Jaunt'. These gigs were held around the Glasgow area with the audience being taken round a host of locations, where several different local bands would perform sets everywhere from dark alley-ways to a large pond in Rouken Glen Park. Detour also runs events in several more common music venues around Scotland and runs an online video blog.
Ally McCrae is an alumnus of Stirling University where he obtained a degree in Film and Media Studies and was the station manager of Stirling University's Air3 student radio station.[citation needed]
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Andy Parfitt
Andrew Parfitt (born October 1958, Bristol) is the Executive Director of Talent for ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi . He was the Controller of BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom, and held that role from 1998-2011, taking over from Matthew Bannister. He was also the controller of BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Asian Network, BBC Popular Music and BBC Switch.
He went to Ashton Park Comprehensive School in Bower Ashton, Bristol. He then went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (now an associate college of UWE). From 1978-9, he was the assistant stage manager at the Bristol Arts Centre.
Parfitt joined the BBC in 1980 working as a Studio Manager. He spent some time with BFBS in the Falkland Islands, before returning to the UK in 1984. He became a producer in BBC Education in 1985, then joined Radio 4 in 1987 and produced Pick of the Week and Bookshelf. He helped set up Radio 5, and became the network's Assistant Editor in 1989. He joined Radio 1 as Chief Assistant to the Controller in 1993. A year later he was promoted first to Editor, Commissioning and Planning and soon after to Managing Editor. In 1997, he became the network's Deputy Controller when Matthew Bannister was appointed Director of BBC Radio.
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Annie Nightingale
Anne "Annie" Avril Nightingale MBE (born 1 April 1940) is an English radio broadcaster. She is most commonly known by the more informal name of Annie. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 and, since the death of John Peel in October 2004, is its longest-serving presenter.
After attending Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, London and the Polytechnic of Central London School of Journalism Nightingale began her career as a journalist in Brighton. In the 1960s she wrote columns for the Daily Express, the Daily Sketch and Cosmopolitan magazine.
She started at Radio 1 on 1 January 1970 with a Sunday evening show. Later she then hosted the singles review show What's New in the early 1970s before graduating to a late-night progressive rock show, which was simulcast on the Radio 2 FM frequency.
In the late 1970s she presented a Sunday afternoon request show and by 1980 was presenting a Friday night show and the non-music-based Radio 1 Mailbag. In 1978 Nightingale began presenting the The Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC2; during her tenure the show moved away from its progressive rock bias and embraced more modern, popular styles such as punk rock and new wave.
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Annita McVeigh
Annita McVeigh is a newsreader on the BBC's 24 hour channel BBC News.
McVeigh completed the NUJ National Council for the Training of Journalists Pre-entry course at the Belfast College of Further and Higher Education (BIFHE) 1991-1992
McVeigh started her career as a reporter for BBC Northern Ireland, reporting on both local news stories and various aspects of the troubles,
McVeigh became an occasional presenter for BBC Newsline from the late 1990s. Transferring permanently to BBC News as a reporter in 2002, she became a presenter from summer 2006 on return from maternity leave, replacing Joanna Gosling who moved to the weekday schedule. McVeigh normally presents on Fridays between 7pm and 10pm and between 7pm and 12pm at the weekend, alongside Clive Myrie.
She anchored much of the daytime coverage for the UK Papal visit on the BBC News Channel during September 2010.
McVeigh married BBC manager Martin Read in Tullysarran, County Armagh.
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Babita Sharma
Babita Sharma is a British television newsreader, currently fronting the overnight bulletins on the BBC News and BBC World News, presenting the Newsday strand each Monday-Wednesday from London with Rico Hizon in Singapore.
Babita graduated from the University of Wales, where she attained a degree in Journalism, Film and Broadcasting. She began her first media placements with BBC Radio Wales and Thames Valley Television.
Babita then moved to Dubai, working on radio for Channel 4 FM and for Ajman TV where she presented a weekly music programme. She returned to the UK in 2003 and began her BBC career at BBC Radio Berkshire as a travel presenter and producer. She then moved to the newsroom in Southampton, reporting and producing for BBC South Today. In 2007 she moved onto BBC Spotlight Channel Islands working as a video journalist and regular presenter of the evening bulletin.
Babita moved to the BBC News channel in 2008, initially as presenter of the Your Money programme, as well as reading the business news on Fridays. She took on the main business role in early 2009, before moving to her current full-time presenting role for the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
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Benga (musician)
Benga (born Adegbenga Adejumo, 28 November 1986) is a dubstep music producer from Croydon, south London, although he was born in east London. As a boy he used to hang out at the Big Apple record shop in Croydon and make his own tunes at home on his Playstation. The tunes caught the attention of dubstep producer Hatcha, who worked at the shop, and by the age of 15 Benga had made his first record, "Skank", released on Big Apple's own record label. He was also one of the first dubstep producers when the style was emerging in the early 2000s. He has been featured on a variety of compilations including Mary Anne Hobbs's Warrior Dubz, Tempa's The Roots of Dubstep and the BBC Radio 1Xtra anniversary mix. Benga is also noted for using acoustic drums on some songs, including "Live Drums" and "Evolution".
In 2007 Benga, along with fellow producers Skream and Artwork, formed the dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man.
Benga released the cross-over anthem "Night" with DMZ's Coki in early 2008, followed by his second album, Diary of an Afro Warrior, both on Tempa. Resident Advisor described it as "one of the most anticipated LPs in dubstep yet."
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Benji B
Benjamin Benstead, known as Benji B, is a British DJ and radio presenter. He presents a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 in the 2am – 4am slot Wednesday nights / Thursday mornings previously inhabited by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Benji B is a DJ and broadcaster from London, UK. He has presented an influential radio show on BBC Radio 1Xtra for the past 10 years since the station's launch in 2002. As a DJ he is known for playing music from the entire spectrum of soulful music, primarily hip hop, house, soul, electronic, Detroit techno, dubstep, boogie, disco and more. Benji B has been DJing for fifteen years and plays all over the globe all year round.
Benji is also the resident at the monthly club night he runs in London called Deviation. The Deviation night regularly showcases famous DJs and producers, such as Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Skream, Mark Pritchard, Moodymann, Mala, Marc Mac, MJ Cole, and was the first night in Europe at which Flying Lotus and Dâm-Funk played. There have been one-off Deviation nights at Fabric featuring Madlib and J-Rocc and in Madrid, Spain. In March 2010 the night moved from its home at Gramaphone to CAMP on Old Street.
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Bill Turnbull
William Robert "Bill" Turnbull (born 25 January 1956) is a British journalist and presenter, currently employed by the BBC and best known for presenting BBC Breakfast. He is the main male presenter of Breakfast broadcast on BBC One and BBC News, presenting alongside Susanna Reid each Monday-Wednesday.
Turnbull was born in Surrey, South East England to an English father of Scottish ancestry and an English mother. He was educated at Eton College in Berkshire, followed by the University of Edinburgh, where he edited the student newspaper.
Bill Turnbull's career began at Scottish local station Radio Clyde in 1978, and later he freelanced for a number of years in the USA.
He joined the BBC as a reporter for the Today programme in 1986 and Breakfast as a reporter in 1988, before becoming a correspondent for BBC News in 1990. He covered a wide range of domestic and international stories, reporting from over thirty countries including a four-year stint as Washington Correspondent, based in the USA. His producer for a while was Sian Williams. In this role he reported on a whole swathe of major American stories, including the O.J. Simpson murder trial and the Monica Lewinsky scandal that rocked Bill Clinton's presidency.
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Carrie Gracie
Carrie Gracie is a Scottish journalist and newsreader for BBC News.
Gracie's father was a Scottish oil executive; Gracie was born while he was on assignment in Bahrain. She was educated in Aberdeenshire and Glasgow. She studied at University of Edinburgh, before leaving to run her own restaurant for a year. She then graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
In 1985 she went to China to teach English and Economics at Yantai and Chongqing Universities. On her return to Britain a year later she managed a small film company.
She completed a BA in Chinese in 1996 followed by an MA in Design for Interactive Media from Middlesex University.
Gracie joined the BBC World Service in 1987 as a trainee producer, working in many areas at the headquarters in London as well as on assignment, including African, Chinese and Asia-Pacific regions. She became a correspondent for BBC World Service and then for domestic radio and television in Beijing in 1991. Gracie moved back to the UK in 1999 as a presenter on BBC News and on World Service. Since January 2008 she has been the main morning presenter on BBC News each Tuesday to Friday alongside Simon McCoy, previously her co-presenter on Fridays. She is also a presenter for the BBC World Service programme "The Interview".
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Charles McLelland
Charles McLelland 'Fuzz'(19 November 1930 - 2 December 2004) was the controller of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 from 1976 to 1978, and the controller solely of BBC Radio 2 from 1978 to 1980, when the two stations' management teams were separated. Under McLelland, Radio 2 started broadcasting 24 hours a day. He also played a pivotal role in radio planning as chairman of the European Broadcasting Union radio programme committee.
In his earlier life, McLelland served in the Royal Artillery for two years, before joining The Glasgow Herald in 1954 as a sub-editor and leader writer.
McLelland was the head of the BBC Arabic service from 1971 to 1975 and played an important role in feeding the growing interest in Asian music and culture in Britain. To prepare for the job he took a one-year course in Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies in Lebanon. He left the BBC in 1986 to become director-general of the Association of British Travel Agents in 1987.
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Charlie Sloth
Charlie Sloth is a hip hop artist who was born and raised in Camden Town, North London, England.[citation needed]
Sloth become known for his "Cant forget about UK" track which named pioneers such as MC Duke, Stereo MC's and TY.[citation needed] He also made a remix which featured TY, Stereo MC's, Mc Duke, PRM, Funky DL and many other Pioneers.[citation needed]
Sloth's music career started on London's Pirate radio Stations such as Raw FM, Freek FM and Flex FM where he was best known for his pranks.[citation needed]
In 2007 he won "Most original Video" at the CraveFest awards Canada for his music video "Guided Tour of Camden", which is just what it says, and in which he calls Camden High Street "the mile of murder", and describes the crimes of "the Camden Ripper", murderer Anthony Hardy.
Sloth has also collaborated with US artists such as Craig G.[citation needed]
He is a DJ on BBC Radio 1Xtra, presenting the Hip Hop mix show from 1am - 4am on Saturday mornings, and the Saturday mid-morning show. This show has been important in launching the careers of UK MCs (such as Lowkey) through his "Fire In The Booth" feature.
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Chris Eakin
Chris Eakin (born c.1961) is a newsreader on the BBC's 24 hour rolling news channel, BBC News.
He was born in Northern Ireland and lived at Helen's Bay in County Down, then briefly moved to Spain. His father was a civil engineer.
He moved to Heswall when he was 12. He learnt to sail with the Fourth Heswall Sea Scouts, sailing at the West Kirby Marine Lake. He left grammar school in 1979, which he attended with his two brothers.
From 1979-83 he was at Wirral Newspapers. From 1983-5 he was a freelance journalist in Cheshire. From 1985-89 he was at the Liverpool Daily Post.
From 1989-90 he worked at Central TV as a journalist.
From 1990-97 he was a reporter for Look North at Newcastle upon Tyne. He twice won regional journalist of the year.
He can be seen on the BBC News Channel presenting from 10:30pm until 1am between Monday and Thursday. He occasionally acts as a relief presenters at other times throughout the week. The first half hour of his shift follows the BBC News at Ten, and contains a review of the following day's front pages and a sport and business update. He has anchored outside news broadcasts from locations including Buckingham Palace, Tavistock Square in London and Boscastle, Cornwall. Before moving to his current shift he anchored from 7pm to 10pm on Monday-Thursday evenings alongside Jane Hill.
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Chris Moyles
Christopher David Moyles (born 22 February 1974) is an English radio and television presenter and author, who currently presents The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on Channel 4.
Born in Leeds, he attended Mount St Mary's Catholic High School in Leeds and volunteered to work at WBHS (Wakefield's Broadcast to Hospitals Service). He has worked at various radio stations including Radio Luxembourg (under the pseudonym Chris Holmes) and Capital FM. Moyles moved to BBC Radio 1 in 1997 and has remained there ever since, presenting the early breakfast show, a Saturday morning show, the drive time show and currently, the breakfast show. On 7 September 2009 he became Radio 1's longest serving breakfast presenter. Moyles has become famous for his irreverent broadcasting style on Radio 1 and has been embroiled in numerous controversies, including homophobic and sexist accusations, due to statements he has made on the air and in the press. Despite that, Moyles' regular audience figures averages 8 million listeners per annum, and remains one of the more popular presenters on BBC Radio 1.
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Chuckie (DJ)
Chuckie, born Clyde Sergio Narain (Paramaribo, 25 June 1978) is a Dutch DJ and producer of Surinamese descent.
Chuckie grew up in Suriname and was influenced by the large number of musical genres of the country. When one of his friends started working as a DJ, his interest for DJing started at the age of thirteen when he started experimenting with remixing at home. Gradually, he built his own record collection. At first, he played at parties of his friends and family.
In 2003, he started working as a DJ in club Voltage in The Hague. Nowadays, he performs all the time in the Netherlands and abroad. Chuckie did remixes for other bands, including David Guetta, K-Liber, The Partysquad, and Gio.
In 2008, he performed as the opening act at the dance event Sensation. Afterwards, he stated that this was a dream come true for him: he had visited the very first Sensation event in 2000 and promised himself that one day he would be standing behind the DJ table.
The song "I'm In Miami Trick" (or "I'm In Miami Bitch") was originally by hip-hop group LMFAO, the remix Chuckie did was titled "Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl" (or "Let The Bass Kick In Miami Bitch"/"Let The Bass Kick In Miami Bitch"). MYNC also did an edit of the Chuckie remix which was titled "I'm In Miami Bitch (MYNC I'm In Richmond Bitch Remix)". In 2011 Chuckie was also featured on Hardwell's song "Move It To The Dru"m, which also featured vocals by Ambush. In 2012 Chuckie released "Who Is Ready To Jump?" this was solo work and the song was featured on many Ministry of Sound compilation albums including Addicted To Bass and the Ministry of Sound Annual (2012). The song was also featured on Cream Club Anthems 2012.
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Clive Myrie
Clive Myrie (born 25 August 1964 in Bolton, Lancashire) is an English television news journalist, who works for BBC News.
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, to Jamaican immigrant parents, his mother was a seamstress and his father a factory worker making car batteries. Myrie was educated at Hayward Grammar School and the University of Sussex, graduating in 1985 with a law degree.
Myrie joined the BBC on the corporations graduate journalist programme. His first assignment was as a reporter for Radio Bristol in 1988, returning to the BBC after a year with Independent Radio News. He then reported for Points West, and latterly BBC Television and Radio News.
In 1996, he became a BBC foreign correspondent, and has since reported from more than 50 countries. He initially became the BBC's Tokyo correspondent, and then the Los Angeles correspondent 1997–99. He was appointed a BBC Asia Correspondent in 2002 and was Paris correspondent 2006–07. His career has encompassed major stories such as the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton, and wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Daniel P. Carter
Daniel P. Carter (born 16 November 1974) is a British musician and radio DJ. He is currently the singer and guitarist for hardcore punk band Hexes, bassist for A, and guitarist for alternative hip-hop group Bloodhound Gang (under the name Denial P. Cartier). Daniel is also the host of BBC Radio 1's Rock Show.
Born in Reading, England, Daniel joined the rock band ’A’ in 1997, replacing original bassist Stevie Swindon. The band had just released their debut album How Ace Are Buildings, and spent the next year touring the UK.
In 1999 they released their second album A vs. Monkey Kong. With its release they began touring internationally for the first time. The single "I Love Lake Tahoe" was a big hit in Germany, and in 2000 the band embarked on a worldwide tour with The Bloodhound Gang.
The third album was Hi-Fi Serious, recorded in Germany with producer Al Clay in 2001. The first single from that album was "Nothing". The track reached the UK top 10. This was followed by top 20 hit "Starbucks". The band spent 2002 touring worldwide, appearing at many of the world's major festivals, and won a Kerrang award for best British band. In 2003 ’A’ released a brand new single "Good Time".
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David Eades
David Eades is a journalist and newsreader working for BBC News. He presents the news between 0800 - 1200 on BBC World News. He previously has been a Northern Ireland correspondent for the BBC, as well as Europe Correspondent and senior Sports News Correspondent.
He has presented the evening slot on BBC News 24 most weekdays alongside Carrie Gracie. David has reported on many other major news events. He has also presented weekend editions of Breakfast and presents BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight.
He runs his own small business called "Allday Media Ltd". David often turns to his friend and camera man Bo Lindstrum for filming and editing work.
Eades was educated at the independent school Kent College in Canterbury, Kent, and at the University of Bristol, where he studied French and Politics.
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Deborah Mackenzie
Deborah Mackenzie is one of four presenters who regularly present the overnight shift on the rolling 24 hour UK news service the BBC News Channel, which is also shown on BBC One and BBC World News during this time.
Mackenzie was educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and is a trained voice coach.
Before taking up this role Mackenzie appeared on the BBC World Service for a number of years, and also presented several programmes on classical music, such as the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall. Mackenzie is also an occasional visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster.
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Derek Chinnery
Charles Derek Chinnery (born 27 April 1925 in Richmond, London) was the controller of BBC Radio 1 from 1978 to 1985.
He attended Gosforth Grammar School (since 1973 the Gosforth High School).
He joined the BBC in 1941 aged 16. From 1943-7 he was in the RAF. He returned to the BBC in 1947, becoming a producer in 1952.
He took over from Charles McLelland and was succeeded by Johnny Beerling. He relaxed the guidelines on banning records, allowing records to mention a commercial product. He axed Sounds of the Seventies.
He once described Radio 1 listeners as unemployed student louts with no money to spend.
His successor, Johnny Beerling, would also be ex-RAF.
He married Doreen Clarke in 1953 in Marylebone.
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Devin Griffin
Devin Joseph Jordan "Dev" Griffin (born 23 December 1984) is a British actor, radio presenter and DJ who is most commonly known for currently presenting the weekday early breakfast show on BBC Radio 1.
Griffin was born on 23 December 1984 in Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom, to an Irish mother and a Jamaican father. He and his twin sister are the youngest of five siblings. He was educated at The Ravenscroft School and attended the after-school drama club at the Anna Scher Theatre School.
In 2002, whilst studying for his A Levels at The Ravenscroft School, Griffin landed a job co-presenting the children's interactive TV show Smile (credited as DJ Devstar) alongside his childhood friend Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton. Six months into filming, he was approached by Radio 1Xtra to present a Saturday morning show with his Smile co-presenter Reggie; the 'Reg and Dev' show was born. In 2003 Griffin left Smile to concentrate on his radio career, and soon afterwards began presenting a solo show on 1xtra on Sunday mornings. Since September 2009 he has presented the early morning breakfast show (Monday-Friday 4-6:30am).
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Diplo (DJ)
Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978), better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Philadelphia-based American DJ, producer, and songwriter. Together with DJ Low Budget, he runs Hooked on Hollerphonix, a club and music collective. He also founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as the not for profit organization Heaps Decent. Among other jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia.
During his rise to notability, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with helping expose him in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Beyoncé, No Doubt and Usher. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs.
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DJ Nihal
DJ Nihal (born Nihal Arthanayake on 1 June 1971 in Harlow, Essex) is an English radio and TV presenter, as well as club night promoter and DJ, broadcasting on BBC Radio 1, BBC Asian Network and since August 2010 BBC Radio 5 Live.
Nihal, born 1 June 1971, to Buddhist[citation needed] Sri Lankan parents, began his involvement in the music industry as a promoter of rap shows in his native Essex while studying at Burnt Mill School, Harlow.
After graduating from university, Nihal began an unsuccessful career as a recording artist. He was briefly a member of alternative hip-hop outfit Collapsed Lung. Nihal attempted to find fame as a rapper and worked with Fun Da Mental and Punjabi MC (in 1995), Badmarsh & Shri, Mentor, Sona Family, and DJ Sanj and has worked as a freelance music journalist, having written for Asiana, Eastern Eye, The Face, Mixmag, Hip Hop Connection,Attitude, Bear magazine, Cage And Aviary Birds and The Observer.
After failing as an artist, in the late 1990s, Arthanayake turned to music promotion working for artists as diverse as Nitin Sawhney, Judge Jules, Mos Def, and Elton John and it was while working for the groundbreaking Asian Beats record label Outcaste Records he promoted, amongst others Badmarsh & Shri's Signs album.
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Dominic Byrne
Dominic Anthony Byrne (born 10 November 1972) is a newsreader for BBC Radio 1 and a presenter on the BBC News Channel.
Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Byrne attended St Ivo School before attending Bournemouth University. He currently reads the news and the 'made-up' weather on The Chris Moyles Show and on Fearne Cotton's show on BBC Radio 1. In addition, he also presents Newsbeat's Oddbox video clip show on BBC News and Dragon's Den Online, the online spin off from the Dragons' Den TV programme. In December 2011 Dominic Byrne championed the song Dominick the Donkey by Italian American singer Lou Monte on The Chris Moyles Show, helping it achieve a peak chart position of number 3 on the UK Top 40 during Christmas 2011.
Byrne's career began at Kiss 102 in Manchester, reading the breakfast show news. After moving to London he freelanced at Independent Radio News and Virgin Radio.
Byrne has also interviewed many celebrities for the show including Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Alan Sugar, David Schwimmer, Uma Thurman, Goldie Lookin' Chain, and more recently Reese Witherspoon, William Shatner, Al Gore, Richard E. Grant, Daniel Craig, Bruce Willis, Bono, Adam Clayton, Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Downey Jr, Jennifer Aniston, Jedward, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jennifer Lopez, Elton John, Cameron Diaz and Peppa Pig.
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Douglas Muggeridge
Douglas Muggeridge (1928–26 February 1985) was the controller of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 from February 1969 until 1976.
Muggeridge first worked as a reporter for the Liverpool Post, joining the BBC in 1956 as a radio producer. He was appointed as controller of Radio 1 & 2 in February 1969. Following on from Robin Scott, the first Controller for the two networks, Muggeridge tried to up-date the BBC's thinking on pop music radio. Although not a great pop music fan himself, he was responsible for giving both networks their individual identities and for introducing a twice-daily news magazine programme to Radio 1. Entitled 'Newsbeat' the programme still features on the network today. In 1971, he appointed Rodney Collins - known as a supporter of pirate radio through his weekly music newspaper columns - as Publicity Officer for the two networks in an attempt to gain more coverage for Radio 1 in music papers such as the NME, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror. In 1971, Muggeridge signed up leading BBC broadcasters such as Tony Blackburn, Jimmy Young and Pete Murray to long-term contracts in the face of the challenge from the new local commercial radio stations. He was later the Director of Programmes and Deputy Managing Director of Radio, before becoming Managing Director of External Broadcasting in 1981, overseeing the BBC World Service. He was nephew of Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Bowman (born 15 January 1974) is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ and television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music festivals.
Bowman's first on-screen job on TV was as a news reader on MTV UK. She went on to host many shows for the station, including co-presenting chart show Hitlist UK with Cat Deeley, with whom she also presented travel show Roadtripping for BBC Choice in 2002.
She became a presenter on Channel 4's breakfast show RI:SE when it launched on 29 April 2002.
In 2004, she co-presented the BBC Scotland series Teen Commandments with Cameron Stout. After occasional appearances in 2003, Bowman co-presented Top of the Pops up until the end of the series, replacing Fearne Cotton while she was away. In total she appeared on the show ten times including the final weekly episode. She returned to Top of the Pops for the 2006 Christmas Special.
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Ellie Crisell
Ellie Crisell (born in County Durham) is an English journalist and television presenter working for the BBC. Crisell currently presents the BBC One 8pm news summary, and is a relief presenter on the BBC News Channel. She was formerly the main presenter of children's news bulletin program Newsround on CBBC and Newsround Extra.
Crisell attended Dame Allan's Girls School, Newcastle upon Tyne, before going on to the University of Birmingham, then achieving an MA in Broadcast Journalism at London's City University.
Crisell worked for the Mail on Sunday for a year, and a year on radio. She then worked for the ITV regional station, Tyne Tees Television, as a reporter and newsreader for North East Tonight. She is also the daughter of Professor Andrew Crisell, a noted media academic at the University of Sunderland and author of Understanding Radio.
Ellie Crisell started as a Newsround presenter in February 2003 shortly after previous chief anchor Becky Jago's departure. Notable stories which Ellie was personally involved in reporting included the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in which she travelled to Indonesia to see in person the effects of the disaster. She also travelled to Athens in Greece to give daily reports on the 2004 Summer Olympics. In addition to serious reports, she also presented more light-hearted stories, including a report on the Harry Potter-inspired rise of magic in the UK that ended with her being sawn in half by a magician in an illusion called Clearly Impossible. Ellie has not presented Newsround since returning from maternity leave, and her profile has been taken off the show's website. Her final appearance was saying a farewell message to Lizo Mzimba whilst on maternity leave.
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Emily Maitlis
Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a British journalist and newsreader, currently employed by the BBC. She presents news programming across the network, including Newsnight and bulletins on BBC One and the BBC News Channel.
Raised in Sheffield, she was educated at the local King Edward VII School. A graduate of Queens' College, Cambridge, she speaks fluent Spanish, English, Italian and French, and some Mandarin. Prior to working in news, she was a documentary maker in Cambodia and China. She worked for the NBC network and was based in Hong Kong.
Previously, she spent six years with NBC Asia, initially as a business reporter creating documentaries, and then as a presenter in Hong Kong covering the collapse of the tiger economies in 1997. She also covered the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong with Jon Snow for Channel 4. She then moved to Sky News in the UK as a business correspondent, and then to BBC London News when the programme was re-launched in 2001.
Maitlis is now one of the main presenters of Newsnight on BBC Two, with Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark and Gavin Esler. She also presents regular relief shifts on the BBC News at One, the BBC News at Five the BBC News Channel, and relief presents the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. Maitlis was a regular presenter on BBC News during 2006, joining as part of a new line-up in April to present alongside Ben Brown from 7-10pm during the week, but was replaced by Joanna Gosling when she went on maternity leave.
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Fiona Bruce
Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964)[citation needed] is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow. From 2003 to 2007, she also anchored her own documentary series, Real Story.
Bruce was born in Singapore, the daughter of a Scotsman who worked his way up from post boy to become managing director of a division of Unilever. Her mother Rosemary was adopted. She was educated at Gayton Primary School in Heswall, Wirral, The International School of Milan, and then the sixth form of Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross, London. It was during this later period that she modelled for the stories in the teenage girls' magazine Jackie.
Bruce studied French and Italian at Hertford College, Oxford, during which period she was a punk, and for one week had blue hair. In a programme she presented for the BBC on Leonardo Da Vinci on 30 October 2011 she demonstrated that she was comfortable interviewing both French and Italian art experts in their own languages.
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Gavin Esler
Gavin Esler (born 27 February 1953) is a Scottish author and BBC television presenter, currently one of the four main presenters on BBC Two's flagship political analysis programme, Newsnight.
Born in Glasgow, Esler was educated at the independent George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. He gained a BA in English and American literature from the University of Kent and a MA in Anglo-Irish literature with distinction from the University of Leeds. He entered journalism via the Belfast Telegraph and has two honorary degrees, including a Doctorate in Civil Law from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Esler joined the BBC in 1977 as a Northern Ireland reporter, and extended his role after joining Newsnight in 1982. Esler was then appointed Washington correspondent and later chief North America correspondent for the BBC, in charge of shaping coverage across the whole continent for the corporation, and covering both the earlier George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations. His report on the military build up in the Aleutian islands as part of the Reagan administration's New Maritime Strategy earned him a Royal Television Society award.
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Gemma Cairney
Gemma Cairney (born 19 March 1985) is a British radio presenter and former fashion stylist, known for presenting the mid-afternoon programme on BBC Radio 1Xtra. She is now BBC Radio 1 DJ covering the weekend show 7-10am.
Prior to her career in radio, she was a stylist for acts such as Florence and the Machine and The Pigeon Detectives. Then, following a course at Point Blank Music College Gemma fronted several radio shows for Channel 4's 4radio before landing the role of co-presenter for Big Brother's Big Ears for Big Brother 2008 alongside Iain Lee. Gemma began her 1Xtra career co-hosting the Breakfast Show with legendary bald co-presenter Trevor Nelson. Prior to starting on BBC 1Xtra, she co-presented the Kiss FM[disambiguation needed
] breakfast show for two weeks in August 2008.
In autumn 2008 and spring 2010 Gemma was the roving reporter for T4's Frock Me, hosting alongside Alexa Chung and Henry Holland. Other TV appearances have included reaching second place on Pick Me MTV and a regular slot as a co-presenter of Channel 4's online series Bite. In November 2010 she was a guest panelist on ITV2's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Now! Her sister, Laura once filled in for her as Gemma reportedly got lost in the jungle and had to be rescued by Ant or Dec. Gemma also hosted the television coverage of 1Xtra's live music events and contributed to the BBC's Glastonbury coverage.
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George Alagiah
George Maxwell Alagiah OBE (
/ˌæləˈɡaɪə/; born 22 November 1955 in Colombo, Ceylon) is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter.
Since 3 December 2007, he has been the sole presenter of the BBC News at Six and has also been the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since its launch on 1 February 2010. He is also the main relief presenter for the BBC's flagship bulletin BBC News at Ten and has held this role since its launch in 2000, making him the longest serving presenter of the flagship news programme.
Alagiah's parents, Donald Alagiah, an engineer, and Therese, were Tamils. In 1961 his parents moved to Ghana in West Africa, where he did his primary education at Christ the King International School. He spent his secondary education at St John's College, an independent Catholic boarding school in Portsmouth, England, after which he read politics at Van Mildert College, Durham University. Whilst at Durham, he wrote for and became editor of the student newspaper Palatinate and was a sabbatical officer of Durham Students' Union. He worked on South Magazine from 1982 until joining the BBC, where he was the Developing World correspondent based in London and then Southern Africa correspondent in Johannesburg.
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Greg James (DJ)
Greg James (born Gregory James Alan Milward; 17 December 1985) is a British radio DJ on BBC Radio 1.
Greg studied drama at the University of East Anglia in Norwich where he was headboy. During his three years at the university, he presented several shows on the student union radio station Livewire 1350AM, becoming the station manager in 2006. He also presented several breakfast shows on Future Radio in Norwich during their RSL's before he got his break at BBC Radio 1. During university holidays he presented stints on Galaxy North East. He is an alumnus of The Bishop's Stortford High School, where he was deputy head boy.
On 21 September 2009 a new schedule was launched on Radio 1. Along with Fearne Cotton who moved from Weekend late-afternoons to Weekday mornings, James moved up from Early Breakfast to an Early Afternoon slot; 1pm to 4pm - replacing Edith Bowman, who moved to the weekend breakfast slot. His early breakfast show was taken over by Dev.
It was announced on 28 February 2012 that James and Scott Mills would swap shows as of 2 April 2012. Greg James currently hosts the 'drive time' show (4-7pm) weekdays, while Mills took over the weekdays 'early afternoon' show (1-4pm).
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Helen Boaden
Helen Boaden (born 1 March 1956) is the director of BBC News, part of the world’s biggest broadcast news operation (BBC Journalism). Boaden controls much of the BBC's domestic news output along with current affairs, including programmes such as Newsnight and Panorama.
Boaden attended Colchester County High School for Girls and Cedars Grammar School, Leighton Buzzard before gaining a BA Hons in English Literature at the University of Sussex.
Boaden started as a journalist with the New York radio station WBAI in 1979. On returning to the UK, she took a course in Radio Journalism at the London College of Printing (now the London College of Communication). After Radio Tees and Radio Aire, she joined the BBC in 1983 as a news producer with Radio Leeds. From there, she joined BBC Radio 4 as a reporter on the File on 4 series, then as its editor from 1991. Boaden worked from the BBC in Manchester as a presenter for Woman's Hour and later presented other documentaries for Radio 4, and also for the Brass Tacks political programme on BBC Two.
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Huw Stephens
Huw Stephens (born 25 May 1981) is a radio presenter currently broadcasting shows on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Cymru.
Stephens was born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of the author and literary journalist Meic Stephens. He joined Radio 1 at the age of 17 in 1999 as part of the station's new regional output where he hosted the Wales opt-out with Bethan Elfyn and became the youngest ever Radio 1 presenter. Before this he was a DJ on Rookwood Sound Hospital Radio in Llandaff, Cardiff.
In 2005, Stephens gained a national slot when he became one of the replacements for the late John Peel as part of the station's One Music strand, which was intended to keep the spirit of Peel's show going with DJs Rob da Bank and Ras Kwame. Stephens now broadcasts a twice-weekly slot Wednesday at 9pm and at Midnight. He also stands in for various presenters both during the day and nighttime on the station.
Stephens is a fluent Welsh speaker and as well as on Radio 1, he is also a presenter of BBC Radio Cymru's music strand C2, on Monday evenings at 10pm. He also presented Bandit, a television show on Welsh-language channel S4C which showcased Welsh language music talent, until it was taken off the air in December 2011. He founded the "Boobytrap Singles Club", which released limited singles by Mclusky, The Keys and Zabrinski amongst others. Stephens is one of the founders of Welsh language label Am, whose releases include Mr Huw, Radio Luxembourg and Threatmantics. In 2009 he released a compilation called "Music Sounds Better With Huw Volume 1" via Wichita Recordings on iTunes. It featured 21 up and coming artists, including Gold Panda, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Banjo or Freakout and Young Fathers.
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Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil (born 25 February 1986) is a British television presenter and model. She has appeared on various Channel 4 programmes, and has been a presenter of T4 since 2009.
Jamil, nickname "Jam-Jam", was born in Hampstead. . At school, Jamil says she was "bookish and shy [...] Back then it was all about comfort. I literally didn't care what I wore". Her interests include art and biology.
At the age of 17, Jamil was struck by a car, breaking several bones and damaging her spine. Jamil was confined to bed for a year; she weighed 126 pounds (57 kg) before the accident and gained 77 pounds (35 kg) while convalescing. She was told that she may never walk again, but after steroid treatment and physiotherapy she slowly recovered, using a Zimmer frame to start walking. She rapidly lost weight, returning to her original weight.
Jamil taught English to foreign students – including a nun and monk – at the Callan School of English, Oxford Street, London; she also worked as a model, a photographer, and as a fashion scout for Premier Model Management Limited.
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Jane Hill
Jane Hill (born 10 June 1969) is a British newsreader working for the BBC. She is one of the main presenters on the BBC News Channel, the corporation's 24-hour rolling news service, and is a relief anchor for the BBC News at One, as well as regularly presenting the BBC Weekend News. She also occasionally presents The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.
Born in Sussex, she was raised in London. She first joined her local BBC Radio station as a junior music correspondent, but knew little about the local indie bands.
After studying politics at Queen Mary, University of London, Hill worked at the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington DC before joining the BBC on a full-time basis at the end of 1991.
After completing the BBC journalism training programme, Hill joined BBC Radio Five Live at the station's launch, remaining there as a producer for 18 months. She moved into television following completion of the BBC Regional News Trainee Scheme. She went on to join BBC Radio Berkshire and South Today as a presenter, before moving later to national news.
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Joanna Gosling
Joanna Marie Mussett Gosling (born 5 January 1971) is a television news presenter, broadcast journalist and author. She presents on the United Kingdom rolling news channel BBC News, as well as occasionally on the Saturday evening and late editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. Having previously worked for Independent Local Radio, Central Television in the Midlands and Sky News she has been with the BBC since 1999. Gosling is a graduate of the University of Birmingham from which she obtained a degree in French, and the University of Grenoble. She is married to Craig Oliver, who is British Prime Minister David Cameron's Head of Communications. Her first book, Simply Wonderwoman – a guide for busy working women with children – was published in 2011.
The oldest of three siblings, Gosling grew up in Buckinghamshire, where she was educated at Aylesbury High School in Aylesbury. She was academic and had a flair for languages, and went on from school to study at the University of Birmingham, from where she has a degree in French. However, after graduating she decided on a career in broadcast journalism. She attended the University of Grenoble in France, and had originally wanted to be a war correspondent.
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Johnny Beerling
John William Beerling (born 12 April 1937) is a veteran radio producer and station controller.
He attended the Sir Roger Manwood's School in Sandwich, Kent.
He began his radio career during his national service from 1955-7 when he ran a radio station for the Royal Air Force station British Forces Aden in the Aden Protectorate, acting as its station manager, studio engineer and morning DJ.
In 1957 he joined the BBC and was one of the few employees of the BBC Light Programme in the mid-1960s to regard the model of offshore pirate radio as one for the BBC to follow.
As a result, when the offshore stations were outlawed in 1967, Beerling was appointed to the newly-formed station BBC Radio 1 which was created as a legal alternative. This began a long association which culminated in his eight years as controller of the station from 1985 to 1993. He produced the first ever show on Radio 1 - Tony Blackburn's breakfast show on 30 September 1967 - worked his way up through the ranks, creating jingles, recruiting most of the station's DJs (one of whom was Tom Browne who presented the BBC chart from 1972 to 1978) and along the way launched the long-running and successful annual Radio 1 Roadshow events in 1973.
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Jon Sopel
Jon Sopel (Jonathan B. Sopel, born 22 May 1959,London, England) is a television presenter and correspondent for the BBC. He was educated at a boys' grammar school in Finchley London, and then at Christ's College; he received an honours degree in politics from Southampton University.
Starting his broadcasting career in local radio at BBC Radio Solent, Sopel went on to become the chief political correspondent for BBC News 24 and later spent three years as the BBC's Paris correspondent. Stories he covered while he was in Paris included the French ban on the importation of British beef, the millennium celebrations in Paris, the oil spill in Brittany, the French presidency of the EU in 2000 and the Concorde crash in July 2000. Sopel was a freelance writer and broadcaster before joining the BBC in 1983 as a reporter and producer for Radio Solent. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Sopel was the BBC's correspondent in Kuwait City.
In 2005 Sopel joined The Politics Show on BBC One replacing Jeremy Vine as the programme's main presenter. Broadcast every Sunday at noon, Sopel interviews key politicians and advisers, who in the past have included then Prime Minister Tony Blair, opposition leader David Cameron, Jack Straw, Gordon Brown and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The show will end in December 2011 and be replaced by Sunday Politics in January 2012, hosted by Andrew Neil.
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Julian Worricker
Julian Worricker (born 6 January 1963) is a British journalist, currently working as a presenter of You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 and a relief presenter on BBC News, the corporation's 24 hour rolling news channel. Until September 2006, he also presented a Sunday morning current affairs programme on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Worricker was educated at Epsom College, he went on to study English literature at the University of Leicester. He was an only child.
He joined the BBC in 1985 as a staff reporter for BBC Radio Leicester before moving to Midlands Today as a TV presenter in 1988. In January 1989, he re-joined Radio Leicester as News Editor. In 1991, he moved to join the recently founded station Radio Five in Manchester, presenting the evening magazine program, Five Aside. He joined Five Live at its launch in 1994, initially as a newsreader and reporter, but was soon a regular presenter on Weekend Breakfast. In 1997 he became the presenter of Friday's Drivetime show, Nationwide. From 1998, he presented Five Live Breakfast alongside Victoria Derbyshire. He then moved to the mid-morning show from July 2003 (taking over from Fi Glover) until July 2004, when he moved to the Drive programme, which he later left to become a relief presenter for BBC News. In the summer of 2006, Worricker appeared on BBC Breakfast and in December 2006, he reported from Australia during The Ashes for the Breakfast programme on Five Live. From September 2002 until September 2007, he presented the current affairs programme Worricker on Sunday, which also included the 5 Live Report. In September 2007 Worricker decided to take a six month break from both 5 Live and BBC News to go travelling around the world.
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Karin Giannone
Karin Giannone (born in 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African-born British television newsreader working in the United Kingdom. She returned from maternity leave on 6 February 2010 and is the London-based main presenter of the weekend daytime coverage on BBC World News.
Giannone's family moved from Johannesburg to the United Kingdom when she was aged two. She was raised in Edinburgh, Sussex and Kent. She studied modern languages at Cambridge University, where she graduated with a first class honours degree; she speaks French, German and Italian.
She was the editor of Cambridge University’s "Varsity" student newspaper in 1994-5, which led to work experience at Anglia Television. She joined the regional ITV station on graduation in Norwich as a news trainee in 1997, producing, reporting and presenting for regional news bulletins. In 1999 her language and broadcasting skills helped her land a role as a reporter and presenter for Channel 4’s Football Italia series, where she covered the Italian Soccer scene for a season, flying between the UK and Italy every week. She returned to Anglia in 2000 as a presenter and reporter, this time for the programme for the east of the region covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. She also followed troops from the region for a series of reports from Afghanistan in 2002.
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Kate Silverton
Kate Silverton (born 4 August 1970) is an English journalist, currently employed by the BBC.
Silverton was born in Waltham Abbey in Essex, England, the daughter of English parents; Terry Silverton, a black-cab driver turned registered hypnotherapist and Patricia Silverton, who now heads her daughter's company. Silverton has two sisters, Claire and Amy. Silverton attended West Hatch High School in Chigwell, Essex, where she was a champion swimmer and started to compete in the triathlon. She was a Girl Guide and gained the Queen's Guide Award. She spent a year studying Arabic and Middle Eastern politics before switching to psychology and graduated from Durham University where she attended St. Cuthbert's Society. Kate went to Zimbabwe with Raleigh International, spending her gap year working for them in Egypt and Lebanon.
Silverton worked for a London-based bank before becoming a journalist. She trained with the BBC working on Look North news before becoming a reporter and presenter at Tyne Tees Television.
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Katty Kay
Katty Kay (born c. 1964) is an English journalist and correspondent, based at the Washington, D.C. bureau of BBC News. She also blogs at the website True/Slant and is a Board Member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).
Kay grew up in various Middle East countries, where her father was posted as a British diplomat. She studied modern languages at the University of Oxford and, as a result, speaks fluent French and Italian. After graduation, she briefly worked for the Bank of England. Deciding a career in economics was not for her, she left to work for an aid agency in Zimbabwe.
A short time later, friend Matt Frei came out with a tape recorder and persuaded her to become a journalist. Kay joined the BBC in 1990 as Zimbabwe correspondent for the African section of the BBC World Service. She then returned to London to work for BBC World Service radio, before being posted to Tokyo for BBC News television in 1992 and then Washington, D.C., in 1996. Soon afterwards, she joined The Times news bureau, but returned to the BBC as a freelance journalist in 2002, based in the United States.
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Kirsty Lang
Kirsty Lang (born 1962) is a British journalist and broadcaster working for the BBC. She has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York. Lang was raised in various parts of the world; her family were evacuated from Nigeria at the time of the Biafran war in 1967.
Lang was educated at a number of private schools in various countries including Nishimachi International School in Tokyo, Lauriston Girls' School in Melbourne, Dartington Hall School in Devon, England and the International School of Geneva. She first joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1986, having gained an MA in Journalism from City University, London following a degree in International Relations and an MSc in Government and Politics from the London School of Economics. In 1989 she became a Central European correspondent for the World Service and later a reporter on the BBCs Newsnight.
After a spell as Paris correspondent for The Sunday Times, she became a co-presenter/reporter for Channel 4 News (1998-2002). She returned to the BBC when the digital channel BBC Four was established in 2002 and has presented The World, an evening news programme (now replaced by World News Today).
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Komla Dumor
Komla Dumor is a Ghanaian journalist who was born on 3 October 1972 in Accra, Ghana. His grandfather was Philip Gbeho, composer of the Ghanaian national anthem.
Dumor joined the BBC African Service in 2006 as host of the radio programme Network Africa. From 2008 he has presented The World Today on the BBC World Service. He is currently also a news presenter for the BBC's international television news channel, presenting BBC World News and "Africa Business Report". Prior to joining the BBC he worked for JOY FM in Accra, Ghana, and was the 2003 winner of Journalist of the Year award given by the Ghana Journalist Association. Dumor is the only West African news reader on BBC World News.
Initially, Dumor studied medicine but he changed course and graduated from the University of Ghana with a BSc in Sociology and Psychology and from Harvard University with an MA in Public Administration; he is married to Kwansema, with whom he has two children.
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Louise Minchin
Louise Minchin (born 8 September 1968) is an English journalist and presenter. She is currently working freelance within the BBC.
Born Louise Mary Grayson in 1968 in Hong Kong (then a British colony), to a father who was a Major in the British Army, Minchin has a degree in Spanish from the University of St Andrews.
Louise has worked for the Latin American section of the BBC World Service during a year in Argentina, the Today programme, Five and various local radio stations. In 2006 she toured the country in a converted bus meeting England fans as part of the World Cup coverage for BBC News.
She started work for Radio 5 Live in 1998, where she presented many of the main programmes including Drive and Breakfast. Since September 2003, she has been a regular BBC News channel presenter, initially working alongside Jon Sopel from 7pm-10pm. Minchin now presents from 2pm-5pm with Sopel. She currently shares this shift with Emily Maitlis. In 2006-07, she covered for Kate Silverton as relief presenter on BBC Breakfast, while she in turn was covering for main anchor Sian Williams. When Williams returned Minchin continued to appear on the programme, where she is now the main relief presenter. She is also one of the main relief presenters for the BBC News at One
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Lucy Hockings
Lucy Hockings (born c.1975) is a New Zealander who is working as a television journalist for BBC World News. She joined the network as producer in 1999, just before being promoted to senior producer in 2000, and worked on Asia Today and HARDtalk. Due to viewer complaints about the accent, she went to the Royal Academy of Drama for speech lessons. She reported on the September 11, 2001 attacks, followed by the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In 2003, she became a presenter on BBC World (as it was then) and covered such events as the 2004 tsunami, the death of Pope John Paul II and the 2005 London bombings. In 2006, she was made full-time presenter of The World Today. In her spare time, she is also a features reporter for BBC World News. Her previous assignments include Canada, Spain, Norway, and the Netherlands.
She currently presents the 1000UKT Newshour on BBC World News with David Eades, and bulletins at 1100UKT and 1300UKT. She can also be seen regularly standing in for Nik Gowing on weekdays to present The Hub from 1700UKT to 1900UKT broadcast every weekday on BBC World News.
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Lyse Doucet
Lyse Doucet pronounced /liːs duːˈsɛt/ (born c. 1959) is a Canadian journalist, presenter and special correspondent. She works for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television, and also reports for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News in the UK, including reporting on Newsnight.
Doucet is a native of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, where she grew up in an anglophone family. Her Acadian family traces its origins to a shipmate of Samuel de Champlain, and she also has Irish and Migmaw ancestry. Her sister is Andrea Doucet. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University at Kingston in 1980, where she wrote for the university newspaper. She obtained a Master's degree in international relations from the University of Toronto in 1982. The same year, she undertook a four month volunteer assignment teaching English with Canadian Crossroads International in Côte d'Ivoire. She is currently one of the organisation's honorary patrons. Doucet speaks English, French, and Farsi fluently.
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Martine Dennis
Martine Dennis is a BBC news anchor. She has been one of the main news presenters of the BBC World News for many years.
Martine Dennis was born on 29 January 1961 in London to Caribbean/Mauritian parents.She studied English and American Studies from 1979-82 at Keele University in England.
Martine started her broadcasting career as a graduate trainee at LBC/IRN in London in 1983.There she did parliamentary reporting and made radio documentaries notably Zimbabwe - Five Years after Independence documentary.Also she covered the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Nassau, the Bahamas in 1985 interviewing Rajiv Gandhi, Mrs Thatcher and Edward Seaga.
Later she joined BBC World Service Radio at the United Nations, New York in 1985, covering the Iran and Iraq war and interviewing many world leaders.
In 1987 she became a presenter-producer for Focus on Africa, the BBC African Service, based at Bush House in London and in 1989 Martine became a presenter, reporter and producer at Sky News, London. She was an overnight news presenter until 1991 when she went to South Africa. In South Africa she freelanced for BBC World Service, covering South Africa's first democratic election.
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Matt Edmondson
Matt Edmondson (born 27 December 1985 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is a British television and Sony Award-nominated radio presenter, specialising in music, entertainment and celebrity news.
Edmondson was a CBBC continuity presenter from 2004 to 2006, prior to which, in 2002, he was a roving reporter for Channel 4's Richard & Judy.
Edmondson co-presented the 2008 coverage of the Isle of Wight Festival for ITV2. He also provided links and commentary for the MTV coverage of the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. He presented reports from T in the Park 2009 for BBC One Scotland, BBC Two Scotland and BBC Three.
On 26 June 2009 he presented The Saturdays at Work, a one-off behind-the-scenes documentary following the making of the video for The Saturdays' fifth single "Work" on FIVER.
Edmondson also does voice-overs for 4Music and presents Channel 4's Freshly Squeezed.
In May 2010 he presented highlights from The Great Escape Festival and the Topman CTRL Student Tour on Channel 4.
In 2009 he began presenting the online music-based show Sony Ericsson's Pocket TV. which transferred to T4 for its second series.
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Matthew Amroliwala
Matthew Amroliwala (born 1962) is a BBC newsreader who presents on the BBC News Channel each weekday from 11am - 2pm alongside Jane Hill. He is an occasional relief presenter of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One and appears in the revamped Crimewatch programme on BBC One, with Kirsty Young.
He was born Mehrwan F. Amroliwala in Leeds, the son of a Royal Air Force officer, and he is a Zoroastrian. He was educated at The King's School, Ely and then at St Chad's College, Durham University. He graduated in 1984 having read Law and Politics.
He was married in London, in June 1999, and has four children: Milo, Louis, Mary and Mabel.
After a career as a chartered accountant he joined the BBC and in 1990 became a BBC network television correspondent. In 1997 he joined the BBC News Channel as a presenter of the channel's evening programmes, and from the beginning of 2001 he has presented the late afternoon news programme, first with Jane Hill and then with Maxine Mawhinney. In April 2006 he was reunited with Hill, and they now present together from 11am-2pm on weekdays.
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Matthew Bannister
Richard Matthew Bannister (born 16 March 1957) is a British media executive and broadcaster. After attending King Edward VII School (Sheffield), he graduated in law at the University of Nottingham in 1978, and joined BBC Radio Nottingham as a trainee reporter and subsequently the presenter of its speech-based breakfast show, Morning Report. It was here that he first met Trevor Dann, whom he subsequently worked with at BBC Radio 1.
He first worked for Radio 1 as a presenter of its news programme Newsbeat between 1983 and 1986 and subsequently moved to Capital Radio as Head of News and Talks. He was co-presenter with Sarah Ward of Capital Radio's The Way It Is. He first established himself as a 'name' in the radio industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s as Managing Editor of GLR (Greater London Radio), the BBC's local radio station for London. Here he worked for the first time with Chris Evans, who was pioneering many of the ideas which would later win him greater success and much controversy at Radio 1, and also employed a number of the more musically credible DJs from Radio 1's past, such as Annie Nightingale, Tommy Vance, Janice Long and Johnnie Walker. The line up also included Danny Baker, Emma Freud and Chris Morris.
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Maxine Mawhinney
Maxine Mawhinney is a newsreader on BBC News, the BBC's 24 hour rolling news channel.
She trained as a newspaper journalist in Northern Ireland, then joined BBC Television and Radio in Belfast, before moving to Ulster Television and then ITN in London.
She joined Sky News at its launch in 1989, as Ireland correspondent, remaining for two years before going to Tokyo as News Editor for Asia for Reuters Television.
After two years in Asia, she spent a year in Frankfurt, Germany, for Reuters Television before being appointed Washington Correspondent for GMTV at its launch in 1993.
In 1996 she returned to London joining the BBC's international news channel BBC World. She was the duty presenter in the early hours of 31 August 1997 when news broke of the car crash of Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she was soon replaced by the channel's senior presenter Nik Gowing, she continued to give updates on the story throughout the night. She can be seen in this role in the 2006 feature film The Queen.
In November 1997 she joined BBC News (then BBC News 24) as one of the launch presenters. Since then she has presented various timeslots on the channel, including a period in the afternoon slot alongside Matthew Amroliwala and Chris Eakin, before being shifted to Sunday afternoons in April 2006. She has since also taken on the Saturday and Monday morning slots and the Friday afternoon slot as well as also regularly covering other shifts on the channel. Mawhinney also appears on the BBC One weekend lunchtime bulletins as part of her weekend shifts. In the past she has also presented BBC Breakfast and the BBC One O'Clock News.
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Mike Embley
Mike Embley (born 1955 in Surrey, England) is a presenter on BBC World News, an international news and current affairs television channel operated by the BBC.
Before moving on to the BBC, Embley began his career training as a journalist with Thomson daily papers in Wales, on the South Wales Echo and Western Mail. He started in broadcasting in 1983, working for BBC Wales followed by the BBC programme Watchdog in 1987, and Public Eye in 1989. Whilst with the programme, he was the first British reporter to reach San Francisco to report on the earthquake that struck there in 1989 for BBC News. Later he worked for Channel Four News as a producer and reporter before returning to the BBC, reporting for the One O'Clock, Six O'Clock and Nine O'Clock News bulletins. During this time, Embley also worked as a series presenter for Nature on BBC Two and made two films for Panorama.
Embley joined BBC World in 1995, and stayed there for two years until he became the main presenter of Newsroom South East, the BBC's regional news programme for the south-east region of the UK. After the programme was replaced by two separate regional bulletins (BBC London and South East Today) in 2001, Embley rejoined BBC World as a presenter. Since then, he has also presented on BBC News 24, the BBC's 24 hour rolling news channel, and carried out one-on-one interviews for the BBC programme HARDtalk, as well as reporting several series for the radio station BBC World Service.
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Mishal Husain
Mishal Husain (Urdu: مشعل حسین) (sometimes spelt Mishal Hussein) (born 1973 in Northampton, England) is a British television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World News, presenting Impact between 1400 and 1600 GMT every Monday to Thursday as well as presenting the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. She was previously a presenter on the BBC News talk show HARDtalk Extra and on BBC Breakfast. She is also a relief presenter on the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten, and occasionally presents Newsnight.
Mishal Husain is of Pakistani origin. Her grandfather, Syed Shahid Hamid, was an army officer serving in the Indian Army prior to the 1947 Partition, as a private Military Secretary of Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck. In the wake of India’s independence, led by Mohandas Gandhi, Husain’s grandfather and family “didn’t feel that he (Gandhi) represented them.” Husain herself has explained the matter in the following way:
S. Shahid Hamid wrote a book called Disastrous Twilight about early days of independent India:
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MistaJam
MistaJam, born Pete Dalton, is an award-winning DJ and Radio presenter for BBC Radio 1, joining in 2008 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, joining in 2005.
Born in Nottingham, MistaJam grew up listening to the records of his parents and began DJing at local events at the age of 14, going on to DJ for Nottingham Hip Hop crew Out Da Ville and for a local pirate radio station. With associate Joe Buhdha, he ran SureShot Entertainment organising the UK Takeover UK HipHop events. He also acts, was trained at Nottingham's Central Junior Television Workshop alongside Toby Kebbell and Samantha Morton and has appeared in TV programmes such as Peak Practice and EastEnders.
He has appeared as a regular character, "Minty" in the 2001 revamp of ITV soap Crossroads and most recently in the BBC Three sitcom Trexx And Flipside. In November 2009 he narrated the final, compilation episode of the BBC Switch series Chartjackers. He has now got his own show on BBC Two called "No Hats, No Trainers", which aired in May. The show was well received within its demographic and was commissioned for a second series, the first episode of which aired on 4 September 2010.
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Nick Grimshaw
Nicholas Peter "Nick" Grimshaw (born 14 August 1984), also known as Grimmy and G-Munni is a British television and radio presenter. He has presented shows for Channel 4, E4, BBC One, BBC Two and Channel 4 youth strand T4. Currently he appears on the television channel Channel 4 and hosts two radio shows on BBC Radio 1, on Mondays to Thursdays - 10 pm to Midnight, and on Sundays - 10 pm to Midnight with Annie Mac.
Born in St Mary's Hospital in Manchester, he was brought up in nearby Oldham and attended Our Lady's R.C. High School in Royton. Early work career included a Saturday job at Madeleine Lindley Ltd. Grimshaw attended the University of Liverpool, leaving in 2005.
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Nik Gowing
Nik Keith Gowing (born 1951) is a British television journalist. He was educated at the Simon Langton Grammar School in Canterbury and Latymer Upper School in London, followed by Bristol University.
A foreign affairs specialist and presenter at ITN from 1978, Gowing became Diplomatic Editor for the flagship Channel 4 News from 1989. During his time with the BBC, Gowing has since presented The World Today (1996–2000), Europe Direct, HARDtalk, Dateline London, as well as Simpson's World.
At the time of the death of Princess Diana in 1997, Gowing anchored coverage for over seven hours, reportedly only having had 40 minutes sleep before being driven back to Television Centre to present.BBC World was being simulcast for the first ever time with the BBC domestic channel BBC One, making up a global audience of around half a billion, to whom he announced her death.
His coverage of the aftermath of the September 11th 2001 attacks won the 2002 Hotbird Award. He had been on air for six hours. He is also a Member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute.
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Pete Tong
Peter "Pete" Tong (born July 30, 1960) is an English DJ who works for BBC Radio 1. He is the host of programmes such as Essential Mix and Essential Selection on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records, and for his own performances at nightclubs and music festivals. Tong has worked as a record producer and is known by the nickname of Lord of the Dance.
The phrase "It's all gone Pete Tong", where the name is used as rhyming slang for "wrong", was reputedly first coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987 in an article about acid house called "Bermondsey Goes Balearic" for Terry Farley and Pete Heller's Boys Own fanzine. It's All Gone Pete Tong is also the title of a 2004 film which portrays a fictional DJ's experiences as he realizes he is becoming deaf. Tong appears briefly in the film. It is also the name Tong has adopted for his club night at the nightclub Pacha in Ibiza.
In 2008 he was involved with the founding of the International Music Summit in Ibiza.
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Peter Dobbie
Peter Dobbie is a news presenter on the BBC's 24-hour international news channel BBC World. Dobbie also presented news on BBC World's sister channel BBC News 24 until April 2006, when he moved from his late-evening slot and back to BBC World. He can also be regularly heard fronting World Have Your Say on World Service Radio as well as World Update, a breakfast briefing programme aimed at a US audience.
Peter Dobbie is originally from the west of Scotland.
Dobbie is a snowboarder and a qualified instructor. He also competes in triathlons. Dobbie successfully finished Ironman Germany in 2005, and represented as a member of Team GB his country at the European Triathlon Championships in 2006 at Autun in France. Dobbie has also finished Ironman triathlons in France, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. In April 2012 Dobbie completed the Marathon des Sables in the Sahara.
Peter Dobbie began his television career working for local channels in England. He has worked across many of BBC media outlets aside from BBC World and News 24. These have included Breakfast on BBC One, From Our Own Correspondent on BBC World Service Radio, BBC Radio 5 Live, and the PM programme on BBC Radio 4. He has also provided articles for BBC News Online.
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Rachel Schofield
Rachel Katherine Schofield (born 1976 in Winchester, Hampshire) is a journalist who works for the BBC.
She can usually be seen presenting regular relief shifts on BBC News, the corporation's rolling news channel, each Monday-Wednesday. She returned to BBC News in October 2007 after a year-long maternity leave.
Schofield was educated at St Margaret's School, Exeter, an independent school for girls, near the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in south-west England.
She studied Modern European Languages (French, German and Italian) at Durham University (St John's College), where she joined Purple FM. She was at Durham from 1994-98, spending a year in Vienna. From 1998-9 she did a Broadcast Journalism course at the London College of Printing (now called the London College of Communication).
She started her career at the BBC on BBC Radio Newcastle in 1999 and also reported for BBC Look North. She then moved to be a reporter for BBC Radio Four before joining BBC News.
She met Jeremy Vine at a gala dinner. Six months later in the run-up to the 2001 general election, the Newsnight reporter toured the country from Land's End to John o' Groats in a 1976 VW camper van. Stopping off at Newcastle upon Tyne (where he had initially worked in local radio) he met Rachel Schofield while she was working at the BBC's Look North. It was an instant attraction, and he proposed in early April 2002, when she was living in east London, aged 26, and working on You and Yours.
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Rebecca Huxtable
Rebecca 'Beccy' Huxtable (born 12 August 1981) is a British radio personality and producer, currently co-producing The Scott Mills Show with Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1.
Rebecca was born in Taunton, Somerset. She attended Crispin School, going on to study journalism at Bournemouth University.
She gained experience in radio broadcasting at a local radio station, 2CRFM, which later went on to become part of The Heart Network.
Rebecca later worked freelance for Virgin Radio, and also briefly as a newsreader.
Rebecca currently appears on and co-produces The Scott Mills Show, broadcast from 1pm-4pm weekdays on BBC Radio 1. She has appeared on the show since April 2008, following her work with Sara Cox on the same station. Rebecca also produces The Scott Mills Daily Podcast which contains a daily slice of Scott's show. Rebecca turned on the Bridgwater Christmas lights in 2010 live on BBC Radio 1.
In January 2010, Rebecca won the Funniest Radio Sidekick in the Loaded Lafta awards.
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Rico Hizon
Rico Hizon is a Filipino broadcast journalist with BBC World News. He anchors Newsday and Asia Business Report, which is broadcast to more than 300 million households worldwide. He is the first-ever Filipino news anchor to work for two of the world's most prestigious television news networks - CNBC Asia and BBC World News.
After gaining a degree in Communication Arts and Business at De La Salle University, Hizon taught Radio, Television and Broadcasting courses at the University.
Hizon started his broadcast career at Manila-based GMA Network, from 1988 to 1995, where he was responsible for covering capital markets, banking and finance, real estate, investment and corporate developments. He anchored the daily business program, Business Today, GMA News Live and Stock Market Live from the trading floor of the Philippine Stock Exchange. During his tenure, Hizon won the "The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) for Broadcast Journalism" award.
Hizon then joined CNBC Asia in April 1995, based in Hong Kong and later in Singapore, where he was the main anchor of the morning edition of CNBC Today, Squawk Box, Market Watch and Power Lunch.
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Riz Lateef
Riz Lateef is a Journalist, Newsreader and Deputy News Manager. at the BBC. She is the chief anchor for the regional television news service for London, BBC London.
Riz Studied a (BA) in Journalism at the University of Westminster and then attended Cranfield School of Management, in Bedfordshire, from which she obtained an MBA in Business.
Riz presents the flagship BBC London News 6:30pm bulletin from Monday to Thursday and some editions of the 10:30 programme . She also presents the Friday edition of the National 8pm Summary on BBC One.
She joined BBC London in 2004 as a reporter and occasional newsreader. Following the departure of Emily Maitlis in March 2006 to present on BBC News 24, Riz has been promoted to present the flagship 6.30pm BBC London News programme on BBC One. She was also the main anchor for the BBC London News Podcast, presented by BBC as a trial.
Previously, she has reported for BBC Breakfast and presented regional news for the BBC in the North East & Cumbria. Riz was also a guest presenter on BBC One's Holiday programme in 2003 and 2004. She also presented relief shifts on BBC News 24 in 2006. She is one of the main relief presenters for the BBC Weekend News on BBC One and the BBC News Channel.
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Rob da Bank
Robert John Gorham, (born 24 June 1974) known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is a British disc jockey. He presents a Friday-night/Saturday-morning show, Rob da Bank, on BBC Radio 1 from 5am-7am, focused on promoting new left field music. Examples of artists featured on his show include Tipper, Moloko and a host of unsigned acts.
Until September 2006, he and Chris Coco were the presenters of the Blue Room on Radio 1. The show had a dedicated following, and was one of the few show-cases for a unique blend of quirky chillout tunes. He also hosted Radio 1's One Music show on Thursday nights, the content of which is more similar to the music played on his current show. Rob Da Bank filled in for John Peel's show for several weeks following his death in 2004. In 2009 he gave BBC Blast an exclusive look behind the scenes of his show. The music played by Rob da Bank on Sunday Best helped launch the "bar culture" (as opposed to "club culture"), which features more relaxed activities than dancing.[dead link]
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Robin Scott (BBC)
Robin Scott (24 October 1920 - 7 February 2000) was a BBC controller, the launch controller of BBC Radio 1 in 1967, and of BBC2 television from 1969 to 1974.
Born Robin Hugh Scutt, he was schooled at Bryanston and read modern languages at Cambridge University before joining the intelligence corps. He was discharged through illness in 1942, and joined the BBC. While in the French Service, he commented on major events including VE day and VJ day. During this time, he changed his name to Scott, as his French contacts found his original name difficult to say. Moving into television in the late 1950s, he produced programmes including Miss World, Come Dancing, and It's a Knockout. During this time, he wrote the song Softly Softly, a British number one hit for Ruby Murray. In 1958, he moved to the BBC Paris bureau, and was seconded to Trans-Europe Television between 1964 and 1966.
He was appointed the Controller of the Light Programme in March 1967, and devised a format for the corporation's new popular music programme. His vision deliberately echoed the pirate radio broadcasters that would be outlawed by the Marine Broadcast Offences Act in August 1967. This pop station, BBC Radio 1, launched on 30 September 1967, with a signature tune commissioned by Scott, Theme One, recorded by George Martin. He was also Controller of BBC Radio 2, the successor to the Light Programme.
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Rory McConnell
Rory McConnell is a DJ and radio presenter for BBC Radio 1. He currently presents the Northern Ireland edition of BBC Introducing, a regionalised radio programme transmitted Belfast from 00:00 to 02:00 on Sunday night/ Monday morning.
McConnell is from Belfast. At 16, he joined the BBC Radio Ulster show, Across The Line, answering the phones. He later went on to co-present the show. In 2004 he moved to Radio 1 and then in February 2006 he began presenting Radio 1's Northern Ireland Show from 8 to 10pm on Thursday nights. He currently presents and produces the Northern Ireland edition of the BBC Introducing show.
Rory currently runs the promotions, management and record label Di Di Mau. In the past has staged concerts in Belfast and has released the debut album from Dutch Schultz through Di Di Mau Records.
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Scott Mills
Scott Robert Mills (born 28 March 1973) is a British radio DJ, television presenter and occasional actor, best known for presenting The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1. As of the 2011 Contest, Mills commentates for the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest on BBC Three with fellow BBC Radio DJ Sara Cox.
Mills began his career at the age of 16 as a DJ on his local Hampshire commercial radio station, Power FM, after barraging the station with demo tapes. Mills was given an opportunity to present a week worth of shows, and based on the success of this, he was immediately offered the 'graveyard slot' of 1:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. (six nights a week), making him the youngest permanent presenter on the mainstream commercial radio. Mills' popularity led to a quick move to the coveted late afternoon 'drive time'.
Mills moved from Power FM to GWR FM, staying with the station for two years, before joining Piccadilly Key 103 in Manchester where he again moved quickly from the late night slot to the mid-morning show. In 1995, Mills began to work for the new London station Heart 106.2.
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Sian Williams
Sian Mary Williams (born 28 November 1964; "Sian", pronounced [ˈʃɑn]) is a British journalist and current affairs presenter. From 2005 to March 2012, she was a co-presenter of BBC Breakfast on Mondays to Thursdays alongside Bill Turnbull. Williams regularly presented the News at Six and occasionally presented the News at One and the News at Ten.
Williams was born in Paddington, London, to Welsh parents, and raised in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Her mother, Katherine Rees from Llanelli, had moved to London to become a nurse. Williams' father was from Swansea, and his family had been farmers in Glamorgan, south Wales. She gained a BA in English and History from Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University), and was also a student of Japanese and international business at Liverpool John Moores University.
Prior to her career in television journalism, Williams spent over a decade with BBC Radio after joining the corporation in 1985. She worked on BBC Local Radio in Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester before becoming a producer and reporter in Liverpool, and later joining a national spoken word network, BBC Radio 4, as a producer on The World at One and PM programmes. Williams spent the next few years reporting and editing news programmes on the station, and also on BBC Radio 5 Live.
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Simon Mayo
Simon Mayo (born 21 September 1958 in Southgate, London) is an English radio presenter who has worked for BBC Radio since 1981. As of January 2010, Mayo is presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 and, with Mark Kermode, presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews on BBC Radio 5 Live.
In 2008, Mayo was recognised as the "radio broadcaster of the year" at the 34th annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the "Speech Broadcaster of the Year" at the Sony Radio Academy Awards, receiving the latter for his "ability to paint colourful pictures of location and event and his ability to bring the very best out of his guests, encouraging conversation and interaction between them while skilfully nudging and controlling them" and for being "a master of light and shade, handling serious and lighter issues with aplomb." Known as a committed Christian, Mayo has criticised the BBC for marginalising religion and being anti-Christian.
Mayo attended Solihull School, an historic independent school in the West Midlands, and after graduating from the University of Warwick in 1980 with a degree in History and Politics, Mayo spent some time honing his skills at Southlands Hospital Radio, worked for five years as a presenter with BBC Radio Nottingham, before joining the national pop network BBC Radio 1 in 1986, presenting a two hour Saturday evening show from 7.30-9.30pm.
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Simon McCoy
Simon McCoy (born 7 October 1961) is a newsreader for the BBC, and is currently a regular presenter on the rolling news channel BBC News between 8.30am and 11am. He is also a relief presenter of the BBC News at One and of BBC Weekend News.
McCoy was born in Hammersmith. He was educated at the independent Sherborne School in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England.
McCoy started his journalism career at the Fleet Street News Agency in London before joining Thames TV as a researcher for Thames News in 1983. After time as a scriptwriter at Thames TV in 1986 he joined the breakfast TV station TV-am as a news editor. In 1988 Simon left to go to a new satellite channel called Sky - initially as a producer on the Sky News breakfast programme Sunrise.
After a year as a general reporter for the station he was appointed Royal Correspondent and between 1991 and 1996 Simon covered all the major stories which affected the Royal Family.
After a job which involved travel around the world throughout the years Simon took a desk job, presenting Sunrise on Sky News. He also presented the Tonight programme - a topical chat show involving interviews with people from the worlds of showbiz, politics and sport.
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Skream
Skream (born Oliver Dene Jones in West Wickham, Bromley, London on 1 June 1986) is a Dubstep producer based in Croydon. One of Dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development. His debut album Skream! was released in 2006, and was followed up by Outside the Box in 2010. Skream is also a member of the Dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man, along with fellow producers Benga and Artwork. The group released their self-titled debut album on 8 October 2010.
In an interview with The Independent (UK) in September 2011, Skream was quoted: "The word Dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the Dubstep brush. They don’t want to be tagged with it and shouldn’t be tagged with it – that’s not what they’re pushing ... When I say ‘UK bass’, it’s what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that."
As a teenager, Jones worked at Big Apple Records, a Croydon-based record store that was at the centre of the early Dubstep scene; even prior to this, Jones had become acquainted with Hatcha, another Dubstep pioneer, because Jones' brother worked on an adjacent floor in Big Apple Records. As a result of this encounter, Hatcha was the first DJ to play Skream dubplates.
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Sophie Raworth
Sophie Jane Raworth (born 15 May 1968) is an English newsreader and journalist who works for British broadcaster the BBC. She is the main presenter of the BBC News at One, presenting Tuesday to Friday, and regularly appears on the BBC News at Six and occasionally on BBC News at Ten.
Born in Surrey to a florist mother and a businessman father, Raworth was brought up in Twickenham,[citation needed] south west London and attended the independent Putney High School and St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith. After completing a degree in French and German at the University of Manchester, Raworth spent a year teaching English to teenagers in Toulouse before studying for a postgraduate course in broadcasting and journalism at City University London.
Raworth joined the BBC in 1992 as a news reporter, first for Greater Manchester Radio and then as BBC Regions correspondent in Brussels in April 1994. In May 1995, she became the regular joint presenter of BBC's Look North programme in Leeds, moving to BBC Breakfast News in 1997.
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Stephen Sackur
Stephen John Sackur (born 9 January 1964) is an English journalist who presents HARDtalk, a current affairs interview programme on BBC World News and BBC News 24. He is also the main Friday presenter of GMT on BBC World News. For fifteen years he was a BBC foreign correspondent and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 and a number of newspapers and magazines.
Stephen Sackur was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, and studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is married to an Iraqi, Zina Sabbagh and has three children.
Sackur began working at the BBC as a trainee in 1986, and in 1990, he was appointed as one of its foreign affairs correspondents. As a BBC Radio correspondent, Stephen reported on the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia in 1989 and the re-unification of Germany in 1990. During the Gulf War, he was part of a BBC team covering the conflict and spent eight weeks with the British Army. At the end of the war, he was the first correspondent to report the massacre of the retreating Iraqi army on the road leading out of Kuwait. Stephen was based in Cairo, Egypt, between 1992 and 1995 as the BBC's correspondent in the Middle East and he later moved to Jerusalem in 1995 until 1997. He covered both the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the growth of the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat. Between 1997 and 2002, he was appointed the BBC's correspondent in Washington and covered the Lewinsky scandal. He later covered the U.S. Presidential Election in 2000 and interviewed President George W. Bush. Stephen went back to Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein and was the first to report Iraq's mass graves of victims of the regime. He was also the moderator of BBC's worldwide broadcast of a debate on climate change with a panel of five world leaders from South Africa, the Maldives, Sweden, Australia and Mexico.
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Susanna Reid
Susanna Reid (born 10 December 1970) is an English journalist and presenter, best known for presenting BBC Breakfast.
The youngest of three children, Reid was born in Croydon, South London to an English father who worked as a management consultant, of Scottish ancestry, and an English mother who worked as a nurse. Her parents separated and divorced when she was aged 9.
Reid was educated at the independent Croham Hurst School, Croydon from 1975–81, where comedienne Sue Perkins was amongst her classmates, followed by the independent Croydon High School (1981–87) and St Paul's Girls' School (1987–89) in London. Reid studied Politics, Philosophy and Law at the University of Bristol (1989–92), where she was editor of EpiGram, the university's student newspaper, when it was shortlisted for Best Student Newspaper in the 1991 The Guardian/NUS student journalism awards. She then undertook a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Cardiff School of Journalism.
Reid started her career at BBC Radio Bristol and then become a reporter for Radio 5 Live, as well as latterly a producer.
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Tim Westwood
Timothy Westwood (born 3 October 1957) is an English DJ and presenter of radio and television. He also presents the UK version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride. He is often referred to by other DJs and artists appearing on his shows simply as Westwood.
During his career Westwood has DJed for many radio stations, including the newly formed radio stations Kiss FM (which he co-owned) and LWR in the 1980s, followed by mainstream station Capital FM (from 1987). In December 1994, following a shake up of Radio 1 by the then chief executive Matthew Bannister, he was given the new and somewhat innovative national Radio 1 Rap Show. He was the Radio 1 Rap Show's first presenter and has been its only permanent presenter; he is now one of Radio 1's longest-serving broadcasters.
His first broadcast on a legal station appears to have been on 23 March 1985, when he was already working as a pirate DJ.[original research?] He was a guest on a BBC World Service programme called Meridian where he discussed early hip-hop culture in London. After appearing in the 1987 BBC Open Space documentary Bad Meaning Good, which was an early work of his own company Justice Entertainment, he achieved TV exposure in the late 1980s on the ITV programme Night Network, produced by London Weekend Television.
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Toddla T
Toddla T is the stage name of Thomas Mackenzie Bell – a DJ, record producer, re-mixer and composer from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
Toddla T, born 22 February 1985, was raised in Sheffield where he attended King Edward VII School. Toddla T started DJing at the age of 14 in the clubs and bars of Sheffield and by the age of 16 had left school to pursue a full-time career in the music industry. His stage name was given to him by the older Sheffield DJs who influenced him and was used to indicate his relative youth. Despite originating from Sheffield, Bell regularly DJs all over the globe and currently shares a studio with up and coming producer Redlight. Bell currently resides in Queens Park, London where he shares a residence with long-term girlfriend, fellow Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac.[citation needed] Mac features on Toddla T's debut album through the form of an irate phone call when Bell awakens her.[citation needed]
Toddla T's first album, for 1965 Records, encompasses hip-hop, electro, garage, dancehall and house and was released in May 2009. The major collaborators were Serocee and Mr Versatile. The album also features further collaborations with Matt Helders from the Arctic Monkeys, Benjamin Zephaniah, Roots Manuva, Tinchy Stryder, Joe Goddard and Hervé. He has created a mix album for the London nightclub Fabric. Toddla T is currently DJing throughout the UK, Europe and North America and he is a resident DJ at Fabric. He has had a regular slot on BBC Radio 1 in the "In New DJs We Trust" slot. He is involved in recording and producing various artists such as Jammer, Trojan Sound System, Lady Chann and Tinchy Stryder. In 2010 he signed to the record label Ninja Tune and is currently working on his next album. In December 2011, the BBC announced that he will have a permanent weekly slot on Radio 1.
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Trevor Nelson
Trevor Nelson MBE (born 7 January 1964 in Hackney, London) is an English DJ and presenter.
Born in Hackney to a family of St Lucian heritage, he attended Central Foundation Boys' Grammar School (now known as Central Foundation Boys' School) in Cowper St, Islington, London EC2 and Westminster Kingsway College. His first job was in a shoe shop, but his love of music meant a part time role as a DJ. Nelson gained day time work at a record importer in 1985, and widened his DJ experience putting on "warehouse parties" on the weekends. Nelson then worked in A&R for record labels Cooltempo and EMI, promoting artistes such as D'Angelo, Mica Paris and Lynden David Hall; while also promoting events, including his own Soul II Soul and The Lick.
Nelson began DJing on pirate radio station Kiss from 1985, which when it gained a broadcasting license in 1990 to become Kiss FM, Nelson became a director and day time DJ. Nelson moved to BBC Radio 1 in 1996 to present the first UK national R&B show "Rhythm Nation," and a year later began a Saturday afternoon program which resulted in him winning a MOBO Award in 1997 as Best DJ. He now also presents the 10:00 until 13:00 show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, and a Soul show on Wednesday evenings on BBC Radio 2 since April 2008 which is produced by independent production company Somethin' Else. During the summer season Nelson performs weekly sessions in the Global Room at the nightclub Pacha in Ibiza. Was at the KIC FM for the Launch of the station is a big fan of the station.
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Vernon Kay
Vernon Charles Kay (born 28 April 1974) is a British television presenter, radio DJ and former model. He began his television career presenting the BBC children's programme FBi, a spin-off of Fully Booked. Since then he has presented various programmes, most notably T4, Beat the Star and All Star Family Fortunes alongside his weekend show on BBC Radio 1. In 2010 he was named the host of Skating with the Stars, which was broadcast in the United States. He is married to English television presenter Tess Daly
Kay was born and raised in Bolton, Greater Manchester, the elder son of Norman and Gladys; he has a younger brother, Stephen. He attended St Joseph's R.C. High School in Horwich, near Bolton, and then St John Rigby College in Orrell, near Wigan. He graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with an HND in Environmental Science. He supports his hometown's football club Bolton Wanderers. He used to be a regular visitor to Manchester nightclub The Haçienda.
Kay presented the Saturday morning children's programme FBi alongside Boyzone's Keith Duffy and BBC Children's presenter Kate Heavenor. The series was shown on the BBC from 22 April until 23 September 2000 and was filmed in Glasgow.
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Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe (born Alexander Zane Reid Lowe on 7 August 1973) also known as 'Zipper', is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland, where he was a presenter on the local music station Max TV, before moving to England. He presents BBC Radio 1's evening show, where he plays a variety of alternative music, including rock, punk, dance, drum and bass, and hip hop. He was also the presenter of the MTV Rocks show Gonzo, having been a former VJ on MTV since 1997, where he presented Brand:New. Lowe currently resides in London with his wife and two sons, Jackson and Lucius. He is best known for his boundless sycophancy.
Lowe's radio show can be heard on Mondays to Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm. Past and present features on his show have included:
Lowe's method of DJing is rather enthusiastic and fast-paced, similar to many hip hop DJs, with samples of radio stations, interview clips and Radio 1 stings thrown in between songs, along with the occasional sound of Lowe singing along to the music.
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Zeinab Badawi
Zeinab Badawi (born 24 November 1959, Sudan) is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (now known as ITV News at 5:30), and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow (1989–1998), before joining BBC News. Badawi is currently the presenter of World News Today broadcast on both BBC Four and BBC World News, and Reporters, a weekly showcase of reports from the BBC.
Badawi was born in Sudan and has lived in Britain since the age of three. Her great-grandfather, Sheikh Babiker Badri, fought against Kitchener's British forces at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and pioneered women's education in Sudan. Badawi's father was a newspaper editor in Sudan committed to social reform who, when the family moved to the UK, joined the BBC's Arabic Service. Badawi speaks Arabic but not fluently. She was educated at Hornsey High School for Girls in North London, before going up to read Philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) at St Hilda's College, Oxford University. At Oxford, Badawi was a member of the Oxford University Broadcasting Society. In 1988 she moved back to London to pursue a full time one year MA at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in Politics and Anthropology of the Middle East, graduating with Distinction in 1989. Badawi lives in Haverstock Hill, Camden, North London, and is divorced with two sons and two daughters.[citation needed]
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Radio 1 Newsbeat's Odd Box. 28 March 2008
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Dominic Byrne from Radio 1's Newsbeat brings you the week's 10 weirdest videos. This week check out the chicken poo catapult, hamsterballing and a play in a toilet. And don't forget, there's a whole new batch of oddness available for you to look at every Friday.
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News Beat - 22nd April 2012
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Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed President AML in an Exclusive Interview with Fareeha Idrees in fresh episode Of News Beat on Samma News. www.awaz.tv
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News Beat with Fereeha Idrees March 30, 2012 SAMAA TV 1/3
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News Beat with Fereeha Idrees Nov 09, 2011 SAMAA TV 1/3
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News Beat - 13th April 2012
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Imran Khan Chairman PTI in an Exclusive Interview with Fareeha Idrees in fresh episode Of News Beat on Samma News. www.awaz.tv
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News Beat with Fereeha Idrees July 14, 2011 SAMAA TV 1/3
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Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne - 28 May 2010
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More quirky video clips with Newsbeat's Dominic Byrne. This week a feast of animal fun - racing tortoises, surfing dogs, musical fish, and an invasion of mini frogs.
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John Williams did the theme music for NBC Nightly News Beat many many years back. Recently in 2006 end he recorded it afresh with a 90 piece orchestra at the Sony Studios, Culvert City, CA.
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News Beat -- 18th Oct 2012 -- Sheikh Rasheed [Exclusive Interview]
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News Beat with Fereeha Idrees Nov 09, 2011 SAMAA TV 2/3
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News Beat - 6th November 2012 - Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed President AML
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Glee's Amber, Chris and Jenna interviewed by Newsbeat
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Newsbeat talks to Glee stars Amber Riley, Chris Colfer and Jenna Ushkowitz . They reveal what artists they would like to cover on the second series, how Chris hurt his ankle, and how high school prepared them to become performers.
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Sheikh Rasheed in News Beat - 4th September 2012
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This article is about the BBC programme. For the more general journalist role, see beat reporting.
| Genre | News |
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| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Languages | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra |
| Producers | BBC News |
| Recording studio | Yalding House, London |
| Air dates | since 1973 |
| Audio format | FM and Digital radio |
| Website | www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat |
Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra. Newsbeat is produced by BBC News but differs from the BBC's other news programmes in its remit to provide news tailored for a specifically younger audience.[1]
Newsbeat is broadcast at 12:45 and 17:45 during the week on Radio 1, and at noon and 5pm on 1Xtra. Short bulletins are also heard throughout the day on both stations, on the half hour between 04:30 and 18:30, with extra bulletins broadcast at 07:00, 08:00, 17:00 and 22:00. During weekends, networked bulletins across both stations are broadcast on the half hour between 07:30 and 17:30.
Although unconfirmed by the BBC, it's widely thought that the name "Newsbeat" was taken from the Radio Caroline news service of the same name, as was the concept of short bulletins on the half hour. Caroline first used the name (and broadcast 1/2 hour headlines) in the 1960s.
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Newsbeat was launched in 1973 in response to the launch of a network of commercial radio stations across the UK which supplied a news service very different from the style of traditional BBC News. The programme's first presenter was the Radio 1 DJ Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and he was succeeded by Laurie Mayer and Richard Skinner.
Newsbeat's jingles were produced on-and-off by Music 4 between 1998 and 2011, and from 2005 to 2011 have been notable for using the four note Radio 1 'logo'. A new logo and jingles were introduced in June 2011 produced by Koink.
Location[link]
In keeping with its specific targeting of young audiences, Newsbeat has its own set of reporters based at Yalding House in Central London (as opposed to the main Newsroom BBC Television Centre, where most BBC News operations come from). The team's reporters are themselves young, and often report on the location of the big news stories of the day.
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Current team members on Newsbeat include:
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The current editor and controller of Newsbeat is Rod McKenzie, himself a former presenter of the programme and the news presenter on the Simon Mayo breakfast show on Radio 1 from 1988-1993. Newsbeat's first editor was Mike Chaney - hired from The Sun by the Director-General to inject a populist flavour to the news coverage of Radio 1.
Other current duty editors include:
- Jack Baine
- Adrian Pearce
- Anubha Chaturvedi
- Debbie Randle
- Julian Marshall
- Debbie Ramsay
- Charmaine Cozier
- Gabriella O'Donnell
Newsbeat's Oddbox[link]
In 2007, Newsbeat's Oddbox was launched. A four minute video which looks at the week's strangest news, presented by Dominic Byrne and Tulip Mazumdar when he is away. It is available to watch at BBC Online, on the BBC Red Button and on the BBC News channel.
References[link]
- ^ BBC Radio 1 Service Licence BBC Trust, August 2009; Retrieved 31 March 2010
External links[link]
- Newsbeat at BBC Online
- A different Newsbeat BBC Blogs, 17 November 2007 - A history of Newsbeat, written by editor Rod McKenzie
- BBC Odd Box Listing of Oddbox episodes
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| 220px Dominic Byrne (right) outside BBC Radio 1 with Shipwrecked 09's Andrew Dearling, September 2010 |
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| Birth name | Dominic Anthony Byrne |
| Born | (1972-11-10) 10 November 1972 (age 39) Norwich, England |
| Show | The Chris Moyles Show |
| Station(s) | BBC Radio 1 |
| Time slot | 6:30am - 10am |
| Style | Newscaster |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Nicola Byrne |
| Children | Finton James Byrne Xanthe Rose Byrne Tilda Ruby Star Byrne |
| Website | Folk Face Official Website |
Dominic Anthony Byrne (born 10 November 1972) is a newsreader for BBC Radio 1 and a presenter on the BBC News Channel.
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Biography[link]
Born in Norwich, Norfolk,[1] Byrne attended St Ivo School before attending Bournemouth University. He currently reads the news and the 'made-up' weather on The Chris Moyles Show and on Fearne Cotton's show on BBC Radio 1. In addition, he also presents Newsbeat's Oddbox video clip show on BBC News and Dragon's Den Online, the online spin off from the Dragons' Den TV programme.[2] In December 2011 Dominic Byrne championed the song Dominick the Donkey by Italian American singer Lou Monte on The Chris Moyles Show, helping it achieve a peak chart position of number 3 on the UK Top 40 during Christmas 2011.
Career[link]
Byrne's career began at Kiss 102 in Manchester, reading the breakfast show news. After moving to London he freelanced at Independent Radio News and Virgin Radio.
Byrne has also interviewed many celebrities for the show including Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Alan Sugar, David Schwimmer, Uma Thurman, Goldie Lookin' Chain, and more recently Reese Witherspoon, William Shatner, Al Gore, Richard E. Grant, Daniel Craig, Bruce Willis, Bono, Adam Clayton, Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Downey Jr, Jennifer Aniston, Jedward, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jennifer Lopez, Elton John, Cameron Diaz and Peppa Pig.
On 27 April 2007, Dominic Byrne co-hosted BBC Radio Norfolk's The Chris and Nicky Show. Byrne says he has always been a fan of local radio and has always wanted to host a local radio phone in show. The Chris Moyles Show was also broadcast from BBC Radio Norfolk's building, The Forum, on the same day so that Byrne could continue his news reading duties. Byrne also provided the voice of an alien called Zorst in the CBeebies show Space Pirates.[3] He does voice-overs for the entertainment channel Watch.
Newsbeat's Oddbox[link]
In 2007, Newsbeat's Oddbox was launched. A four minute video which looks at the week's strangest news, presented by Dominic Byrne (and Natalie Jamieson when he is away). It is available to watch at BBC Online, on the BBC Red Button and on the BBC News channel.
Bands[link]
Dominic Byrne is part of an award winning comedy folk band Folk Face with Comedy Dave also from The Chris Moyles Show.[citation needed]
References[link]
- ^ "Reporter Profiles: Dominic Byrne", BBC, retrieved 2010-12-05
- ^ Bearne, Suzanne (2009) "BBC launches online version of 'Dragons' Den'", New Media Age, 18 March 2009
- ^ "Interview: Dominic Byrne", BBC, retrieved 2010-12-05
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 Williams at the Avery Fisher Hall in 2007 |
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| Birth name | John Towner Williams |
| Born | (1932-02-08) February 8, 1932 (age 80) |
| Origin | Flushing, Queens, New York, United States of America |
| Genres | Film score, Contemporary classical music, Jazz |
| Occupations | Composer, pianist, conductor |
| Years active | 1952–present |
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, War Horse, Home Alone and the first three Harry Potter films. He has had a long association with director Steven Spielberg, composing the music for all but two (Duel and The Color Purple) of Spielberg's major feature films.
Other notable works by Williams include theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, the NBC Nightly News, the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, and the television series Lost in Space. Williams has also composed numerous classical concerti, and he served as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1980 to 1993; he is now the orchestra's conductor laureate.
Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and 21 Grammy Awards. With 47 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most nominated person, after Walt Disney.[1] John Williams was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.[2] Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.
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Early life and family[link]
John Williams was born on February 8, 1932 on Long Island, New York, the son of Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams.[3] His father was a jazz percussionist who played with the Raymond Scott Quintet.
In 1948, the Williams family moved to Los Angeles where John attended North Hollywood High School graduating in 1950. He later attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.[4] In 1952, Williams was drafted into the U.S. Air Force, where he conducted and arranged music for the Air Force Band as part of his assignments.
After his Air Force service ended in 1955, Williams moved to New York City and entered the Juilliard School, where he studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne.[4] During this time, Williams worked as a jazz pianist in New York's many clubs and eventually studios, most notably for composer Henry Mancini. His fellow session musicians included Rolly Bundock on bass, Jack Sperling on drums, and Bob Bain on guitar—the same lineup featured on the Mr. Lucky television series. Williams was known as "Little Johnny Love" Williams during the early 1960s, and he served as music arranger and bandleader for a series of popular music albums with the singer Frankie Laine.
Williams was married to actress Barbara Ruick from 1956 until her death on March 3, 1974. The Williamses had three children: Jennifer (born 1956), Mark (born 1958), and Joseph (born 1960). Williams' younger son (Joseph) is one of the various lead singers the band Toto. John Williams married his second wife, Samantha Winslow, on July 21, 1980.
John Williams is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi, the national fraternity for college band members.
Film and television scoring[link]
While skilled in a variety of 20th century compositional idioms, Williams' most familiar style may be described as a form of neoromanticism,[5] inspired by the same large-scale orchestral music of the late 19th century—especially the compositions of Richard Wagner and its concept of leitmotif—that inspired his film music predecessors.[6]
After his studies at Juilliard, Williams returned to Los Angeles, where he began working as an orchestrator at film studios. Among other composers, Williams worked with Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, and Alfred Newman, and also with his fellow orchestrators Conrad Salinger and Bob Franklyn.[7] Williams was also a studio pianist, performing on film scores by composers such as Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, and Henry Mancini. Williams recorded with Henry Mancini on the film scores of Peter Gunn (1959), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and Charade (1963). (Williams actually played the well-recognized opening riff to Mancini's Peter Gunn theme.[8][9]) Williams (often credited as "Johnny Williams") also composed the music for various TV programs in the 1960s: The pilot episode of Gilligan's Island,[10] Bachelor Father (1959-1960), the Kraft Suspense Theatre, Lost in Space (1965–68), The Time Tunnel (1966–67), and Land of the Giants (the last three created by the prolific TV producer, Irwin Allen).
Working at Universal Studios, Williams shared music credit on a number of films, the most notable being The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 1954. Williams's first major film composition was for the B movie Daddy-O in 1958, and his first screen credit came two years later in Because They're Young. He soon gained notice in Hollywood for his versatility in composing jazz, piano, and symphonic music. Williams received his first nomination for an Academy Award for his film score for Valley of the Dolls (1967), and then was nominated again for his score for Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969). Williams broke through to win his first Academy Award for his adapted score for the film Fiddler on the Roof (1971). In 1972 he composed the score for the Robert Altman psychological thriller Images (recorded in collaboration with noted percussionist Stomu Yamashta) which earned him another nomination in the category 'Best Music, Original Dramatic Score' at the 1973 Academy Awards. During the early 1970s, Williams' prominence grew thanks to his work for now–film producer Irwin Allen's disaster films, composing the scores for The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). In addition, he scored Universal's Earthquake (1974) for director Mark Robson, completing a "trinity" of scores for the highest grossing "disaster films" of the decade. He also wrote a very memorable score to The Cowboys (1972), a western starring John Wayne and directed by Mark Rydell.
In 1974, Williams was approached by director Steven Spielberg to compose the music for his feature directorial debut, The Sugarland Express. The young director had been impressed with Williams's score for the movie The Reivers (1969), and Spielberg was convinced that Williams could compose the musical sound that he desired for any of his films. They teamed up again a year later for Spielberg's second film, Jaws. Widely considered to be a classic suspense film, its film score's ominous two-note motif has become synonymous with sharks and approaching danger. The score for Jaws earned Williams his second Academy Award, his first one for an original composition.
Shortly thereafter, Williams and Spielberg began a long collaboration for their next feature film together, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K, 1977). In an unusual step for a Hollywood film, Spielberg and Williams developed their script and musical concepts simultaneously, as in the film these entwine very closely together. During their two-year-long collaboration, they crafted its distinctive five-note figure that functions both in the background music and as the communications signal of the film's extraterrestrials. Williams also used a system of musical hand signals in CE3K that were based on hand signs created by John Curwen and refined by Zoltan Kodaly.
During the same period, Spielberg recommended Williams to his friend and fellow director George Lucas, who needed a composer to score his ambitious space epic, Star Wars (1977). Williams delivered a grand symphonic score in the fashion of Richard Strauss and Golden Age Hollywood composers Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Its main theme, "Luke's Theme" is among the most widely recognized in motion picture history, and the "Force Theme" and "Princess Leia's Theme" are well-known examples of leitmotif. Both the film and its soundtrack were immensely successful—it remains the highest grossing non-popular music recording of all-time—and Williams won another Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 1980, Williams returned to score The Empire Strikes Back, where he introduced "The Imperial March" as the theme for Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. The original Star Wars trilogy concluded with the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, for which Williams's score provided most notably the "Emperor's Theme," "Parade of the Ewoks," and "Luke and Leia." Both scores earned Williams Academy Award nominations.
Williams worked with director Richard Donner to score the 1978 film Superman. The score's heroic and romantic themes, particularly the main march, the Superman fanfare and the love theme, known as "Can You Read My Mind," would appear in the four sequel films. For the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, created and directed by Lucas and Spielberg, Williams wrote a rousing main theme known as "The Raiders March" to accompany the film's hero, Indiana Jones. He also composed separate themes to represent the Ark of the Covenant, the character Marion, and the Nazi villains of the story. Additional themes were featured in his scores to the sequel films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Williams composed an emotional and sensitive score to Spielberg's 1982 fantasy film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The music conveys the film's benign, childlike sense of innocence, particularly with a spirited theme for the freedom of flight, and a soft string-based, harp-featured theme for the friendship between characters E.T. and Elliott. The film's final chase and farewell sequence marks a rare instance in film history in which the on-screen action was re-edited to conform to the composer's musical interpretation. Williams was awarded a fourth Academy Award for this score.
The 1985 film The Color Purple is the only theatrical feature directed by Steven Spielberg for which John Williams did not serve as composer. The film's producer, Quincy Jones, wanted to personally arrange and compose the music for the project. Williams also did not score Twilight Zone: The Movie, but Spielberg had directed only one of the four segments in that film; the lead director and producer of the film, John Landis, selected Jerry Goldsmith as composer. The Williams-Spielberg collaboration resumed with the director's 1987 film Empire of the Sun, and has continued to the present, spanning genres from science fiction thrillers (1993's Jurassic Park), to somber tragedies (1993's Schindler's List, 2005's Munich), to Eastern-tinged melodramas (2005's Memoirs of a Geisha, directed by Rob Marshall). Spielberg has said, "I call it an honorable privilege to regard John Williams as a friend."[11]
In 1999 George Lucas launched the first of a series of prequels to the original Star Wars trilogy. Williams was asked to score all three films, starting with The Phantom Menace. Along with themes from the previous movies, Williams created new themes to be used as leitmotifs in Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). Most notable of these was "Duel of the Fates," an aggressive choral movement utilizing harsh Sanskrit lyrics that broadened the style of music used in the Star Wars films. Also of note was "Anakin's Theme," which begins as an innocent childlike melody and morphs insidiously into a quote of the sinister "Imperial March" of the prior trilogy. For Episode II, Williams composed "Across the Stars," a love theme for Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker (mirroring the love theme composed for the second film of the previous trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back). The final installment combined many of the themes created for the series' previous movies, including "The Emperor's Theme," "The Imperial March," "Across the Stars," "Duel of the Fates," "The Force Theme," "Rebel Fanfare," "Luke's Theme," and "Princess Leia's Theme," as well as new themes for General Grievous and the film's climax, entitled "Battle of the Heroes." Few composers have scored an entire series of this magnitude: The combined scores of all six Star Wars films add up to more than 14 hours of orchestral music.
In the new millennium, Williams was asked to score the film adaptations of the widely successful book series, Harry Potter. He went on to score the first three installments of the film franchise. As with his Superman theme, the most important theme from Williams's scores for the adaptations of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, dubbed Hedwig's Theme, has been used in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth films (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2), scored by Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper and Alexandre Desplat respectively. Like the main themes from Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, and Indiana Jones, fans have come to identify the Harry Potter films with Williams's original compositions. Williams was asked to return to the film franchise to score the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, but director David Yates stated that "their schedules simply did not align" as he would have had to provide Williams with a rough cut of the film sooner than was possible.
In 2006 Superman Returns was completed under the direction of Bryan Singer, best known for directing the first two movies in the X-Men series. Although Singer did not request Williams to compose a score for the intentionally Donner-esque film, he employed the skills of X2 composer John Ottman to incorporate Williams's original Superman theme, as well as those for Lois Lane, Krypton and Smallville. Don Davis performed a similar role for Jurassic Park III, recommended to the producers by Williams himself. (Film scores by Ottman and to a lesser extent Davis are often compared to those of Williams, as both use similar styles of composition.)
In 2008 Williams returned to the Indiana Jones series to score the fourth film—The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He received a Grammy nomination for his work on the film. During 2008, he also composed music for two documentaries, Warner at War,[12] and A Timeless Call,[13] the latter of which was directed by Steven Spielberg.
After a three year absence from film scoring, Williams composed the scores for Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and War Horse in 2011. Both scores received overwhelmingly positive reviews,[14][15][16][17][18][19] with both scores earning Oscar nominations,[20] and the latter being nominated for a Golden Globe.[21] The Oscar nominations are Williams' 46th and 47th, making him the most nominated musician in Academy Awards history (having previously been tied with Alfred Newman's 45 nominations), and the second most nominated overall, following Walt Disney. Williams won an Annie Award for his score for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn in 2012.
Williams is next scheduled to score Spielberg's 2012 film Lincoln.
Conducting and performing[link]
From 1980 to 1993, Williams succeeded Arthur Fiedler as Principal Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Williams never met Fiedler in person but spoke with him by telephone. His arrival as the new leader of the Pops in the spring of 1980 allowed him to devote part of the Pops' first PBS broadcast of the season to presenting his new compositions for The Empire Strikes Back, in addition to conducting many Fiedler audience favorites.
Williams almost ended his tenure with the Pops in 1984.[22] Considered a customary practice of opinion, some players hissed while sight-reading a new Williams composition in rehearsal; Williams abruptly left the session and turned in his resignation. He initially cited mounting conflicts with his film composing schedule, but later admitted a perceived lack of discipline in and respect from the Pops' ranks, culminating in this latest instance. After entreaties by the management and personal apologies from the musicians, Williams withdrew his resignation and continued as principal conductor for nine more years.[23] In 1995 he was succeeded by Keith Lockhart, the former associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
Williams is now the Laureate Conductor of the Pops, thus maintaining his affiliation with its parent, the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Williams leads the Pops on several occasions each year, particularly during their Holiday Pops season and typically for a week of concerts in May. He conducts an annual Film Night at both Boston Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, where he frequently enlists the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, official chorus of the BSO....
Williams has written many concert pieces, including a symphony; a Concerto for Horn written for Dale Clevenger, principal hornist of the Chicago Symphony; a Concerto for Clarinet written for Michele Zukovsky (Principal Clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic) in 1991;[24] a sinfonietta for wind ensemble; a cello concerto premiered by Yo-Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1994; concertos for the flute and violin recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra; and a trumpet concerto, which was premiered by the Cleveland Orchestra and their principal trumpet Michael Sachs in September 1996. His bassoon concerto, "The Five Sacred Trees", which was premiered by the New York Philharmonic and principal bassoon player Judith LeClair in 1995, was recorded for Sony Classical by Williams with LeClair and the London Symphony Orchestra. He is also an accomplished pianist, as can be heard in various scores in which he provides solos, as well as a handful of European classical music recordings.
Williams was the subject of an hour-long documentary for the BBC in 1980, and was featured in a story for ABC's newsmagazine 20/20 in 1983.[25]
In 1985, Williams was commissioned by NBC to compose a television news music package for various network news spots. The package, which Williams named "The Mission", consists of four movements, two of which are still used heavily by NBC today for The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and Meet the Press. Williams also composed the "Liberty Fanfare" for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, "We're Lookin' Good!" for the Special Olympics in celebration of the 1987 International Summer Games, and themes for the 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2002 Olympic games. His most recent concert work, "Seven for Luck", for soprano and orchestra, is a seven-piece song cycle based on the texts of former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. "Seven for Luck" was given its world premiere by the Boston Symphony under Williams with soprano Cynthia Haymon.
Williams makes annual appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and took part as conductor and composer in the orchestra's opening gala concerts for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003.
In 2004, Williams both served as the Grand Marshall for the Rose Parade, and directed the Star Spangled Banner at the beginning of the Rose Bowl.
In April 2005, Williams and the Boston Pops performed "The Force Theme" from Star Wars at opening day in Fenway Park as the Boston Red Sox, having won their first World Series championship since 1918, received their championship rings. For Game 1 of the 2007 World Series, Williams conducted a brass-and-drum ensemble through a new dissonant arrangement of the "Star Spangled Banner."[25]
In April 2004, February 2006, and September 2007, he conducted the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. The initial program was intended to be a one-time special event, and featured Williams's medley of Oscar-winning film scores first performed at the previous year's Academy Awards.[26] Its unprecedented popularity led to two concerts in 2006: fundraising gala events featuring personal recollections by film directors Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.[27] Continuing demand fueled three more concerts in 2007, which all sold out. These featured a tribute to the musicals of film director Stanley Donen, and had the distinction of serving as the opening event of the New York Philharmonic season.[28] After a four-season absence, Williams conducted the Philharmonic once again in October 2011.[29]
Awards[link]
John Williams has won five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. He has also been nominated for 22 Golden Globes, winning four, and 59 Grammys, winning 20. With 47 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person,[30][31] and is the second most nominated person in the history of the Academy Awards behind only Walt Disney's 59. Forty-two of Williams' Oscar nominations are for Best Original Score and five are for Best Original Song. He won four Oscars for Best Original Score and one for Best Adapted Score (Fiddler on the Roof).
Williams has received three Emmy Awards and five nominations, seven BAFTAs, twenty Grammy Awards, and has been inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. In 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. He won a Classical Brit award in 2005 for his soundtrack work of the previous year.
Notably, Williams has won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for his scores for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Angela's Ashes (1999), Munich (2005), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The competition includes not only composers of film scores, but also composers of instrumental music of any genre, including composers of classical fare such as symphonies and chamber music.
In 2003, the International Olympic Committee accorded Mr. Williams its highest individual honor, the Olympic Order.[32]
In 2009, Williams received the National Medal of Arts in the White House in Washington for his achievements in symphonic music for motion pictures, and "as a pre-eminent composer and conductor [whose] scores have defined and inspired modern movie-going for decades."[33]
John Williams was made an honorary brother of Kappa Kappa Psi at Boston University in the late 80's. [34]
AFI[link]
Williams's richly thematic and highly popular 1977 score to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was selected in 2005 by the American Film Institute as the greatest American movie score of all time. His scores for Jaws and E.T. also appeared on the list, at No. 6 and No. 14, respectively.[35] He is the only composer to have three scores on the list. Williams' scores for the following films were nominated for the list:
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The Cowboys (1972)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Superman (1978)
- The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
List of awards[link]
| Award | Year | Project | Category | Outcome |
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| Academy Award | 1967 | Valley of the Dolls | Best Score Adaptation | Nominated |
| 1969 | Goodbye, Mr Chips | Best Score Adaptation | Nominated | |
| The Reivers | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| 1971 | Fiddler on the Roof | Best Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score | Won | |
| 1972 | Images | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated | |
| The Poseidon Adventure | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated | ||
| 1973 | Cinderella Liberty | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated | |
| "Nice to Be Around" (from Cinderella Liberty) | Best Original Song | Nominated | ||
| Tom Sawyer | Best Score Adaptation | Nominated | ||
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1975 | Jaws | Best Original Dramatic Score | Won | |
| 1977 | Star Wars | Best Original Score | Won | |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| 1978 | Superman | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1980 | The Empire Strikes Back | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Best Original Score | Won | |
| "If We Were in Love" (from Yes, Giorgio) | Best Original Song | Nominated | ||
| 1983 | Return of the Jedi | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1984 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| The River | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| 1987 | Empire of the Sun | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| The Witches of Eastwick | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| 1988 | The Accidental Tourist | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| 1990 | Home Alone | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| "Somewhere in My Memory" (from Home Alone) | Best Original Song | Nominated | ||
| 1991 | JFK | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| "When You're Alone" (from Hook) | Best Original Song | Nominated | ||
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Best Original Score | Won | |
| 1995 | Nixon | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated | |
| Sabrina | Best Original Musical or Comedy Score | Nominated | ||
| "Moonlight" (from Sabrina) | Best Original Song | Nominated | ||
| 1996 | Sleepers | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Amistad | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Best Original Dramatic Score | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Angela's Ashes | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 2000 | The Patriot | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 2001 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| 2002 | Catch Me If You Can | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| Munich | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | The Adventures of Tintin | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| War Horse | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| Annie Award | 2012 | The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn | Music in a Feature Production | Won |
| BAFTA Award | 1975 | Jaws | Best Film Music | Won |
| 1978 | Star Wars | Best Film Music | Won | |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Best Film Music | Nominated | ||
| 1980 | The Empire Strikes Back | Best Film Music | Won | |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Best Film Music | Nominated | |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Best Film Music | Won | |
| 1988 | Empire of the Sun | Best Film Music | Won | |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Best Film Music | Won | |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Best Film Music | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Catch Me If You Can | Best Film Music | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Best Film Music | Won | |
| 2011 | War Horse | Best Film Music | Nominated | |
| Emmy Award | 1962 | Alcoa Premiere | Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed for Television | Nominated |
| 1963 | Alcoa Premiere | Outstanding Achievement in Composing Original Music | Nominated | |
| 1968 | Heidi | Outstanding Achievement in Musical Composition | Won | |
| 1971 | Jane Eyre | Outstanding Achievement in Musical Composition | Won | |
| 2002 | The 74th Academy Awards | Outstanding Music Direction | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Great Performances | Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music | Won | |
| Golden Globe Award | 1973 | The Poseidon Adventure | Best Original Score | Nominated |
| 1974 | Cinderella Liberty | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| Tom Sawyer (with Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) | Best Original Score | Nominated | ||
| 1975 | Earthquake | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| Jaws | Best Original Score | Won | ||
| 1977 | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | Best Original Score | Won | |
| 1978 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1979 | Superman | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Best Original Score | Won | |
| 1983 | "If We Were In Love" (with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman) from Yes, Giorgio | Best Original Song | Nominated | |
| 1985 | The River | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1988 | Empire of the Sun | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1989 | The Accidental Tourist | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Born on the Fourth of July | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1994 | Schindler's List | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1996 | "Moonlight" (with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman) from Sabrina | Best Original Song | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Seven Years in Tibet | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Saving Private Ryan | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 2000 | Angela's Ashes | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 2002 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Best Original Score | Won | |
| 2011 | War Horse | Best Original Score | Nominated | |
| Grammy Award | 1962 | Checkmate | Best Soundtrack Album or Recording or Score from Motion Picture or Television | Nominated |
| 1975 | Jaws | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Won | |
| 1977 | Star Wars | Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Won | |
| "Main Title" from Star Wars | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | ||
| Star Wars | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Won | ||
| 1978 | "Theme" from Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Won | ||
| 1979 | "Main Title Theme from Superman" | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
| Superman | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Won | ||
| 1980 | Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
| Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Won | ||
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Won | |
| 1982 | "Flying" (Theme from E.T.) | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture | Won | ||
| "Flying" (Theme from E.T.) | Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording | Won | ||
| 1984 | Olympic Fanfare and Theme | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
| Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | ||
| 1988 | The Witches of Eastwick | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
| 1989 | Empire of the Sun | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
| 1992 | "Somewhere in My Memory" (with Leslie Bricusse) from Home Alone | Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Instrumental Composition for a Motion Picture or Television | Won | |
| Hook | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | ||
| 1994 | Jurassic Park | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
| 1997 | "Moonlight" (with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman) from Sabrina | Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Seven Years in Tibet | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | |
| The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | ||
| 1999 | Saving Private Ryan | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Won | |
| Amistad | Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Nominated | ||
| 2000 | "Theme" from Angela's Ashes | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
| Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | ||
| 2002 | Artificial Intelligence: A.I. | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Catch Me If You Can | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | ||
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
| 2006 | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Won | |
| Munich | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated | ||
| "A Prayer For Peace" (Theme from Munich) | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | ||
| 2009 | "The Adventures of Mutt" from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Best Instrumental Composition | Won | |
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media | Nominated |
Discography[link]
Main article: John Williams discography
Charting hits (U.S., Billboard)[link]
- 1975 - "Theme From Jaws", #32
- 1977 - "Star Wars Theme - Main Title", #10
- 1978 - "Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind", #13
- 1979 - "Theme From Superman", #81
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Official Academy Awards Database at www.oscars.org (accessed September 29, 2007)
- ^ "BMI Film/Awards:1999". bmi.com. http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/533563. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
- ^ "John Williams, el compositor de la aventura". Revista Esfinge. http://www.revistaesfinge.com/?p=569. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ a b Sony Classical Williams Biography at www.sonybmgmasterworks.com. Retrieved September 29, 2007.
- ^ "Romanticism". https://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html. Retrieved August 25, 2006.
- ^ "Star Wars and Wagner's Ring". http://www.trell.org/wagner/starwars.html. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
- ^ Films & Filming, vol.24, 1977, p.32
- ^ Tribute to John Williams, ca. 1991.
- ^ John Williams Biography at FilmReference.com.
- ^ Marooned credits (unaired pilot, October 16, 1962)
- ^ Spielberg, Steven (1993). "Back cover". Jurassic Park Audio CD (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD) (Album notes). MCA. "...and I consider it a privilege to call John my Friend."
- ^ Warner at War (2008) (TV) - Full cast and crew
- ^ A Timeless Call (2008) - Full cast and crew
- ^ "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (John Williams)". Filmtracks. http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/tintin.html. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "War Horse (John Williams)". Filmtracks. 2011-11-21. http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/war_horse.html. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (John Williams) « MovieCues". Moviecues.com. 2011-11-01. http://www.moviecues.com/tintin/. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "War Horse (John Williams) « MovieCues". Moviecues.com. 2011-12-04. http://www.moviecues.com/war-horse/. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn – John Williams « Movie Music Uk". Moviemusicuk.us. 2011-10-23. http://moviemusicuk.us/2011/10/23/the-adventures-of-tintin-the-secret-of-the-unicorn-john-williams/. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn soundtrack review | John Williams". movie-wave.net. http://www.movie-wave.net/?p=1883. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "Winners for the 84th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". Oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/84/nominees.html. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ Thursday, December 15, 2011 (2011-12-15). "The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards NOMINATIONS | OFFICIAL WEBSITE of the HFPA and the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS". Goldenglobes.org. http://www.goldenglobes.org/blog/2011/12/the-69th-annual-golden-globe-awards-nominations/. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ Holland, Bernard (June 14, 1984). "Boston Pops Conductor Resigns Abruptly". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F10E11FE3B5F0C778DDDAF0894DC484D81. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
- ^ Clendinen, Dudley (May 1, 1985). "At 100, the Boston Still Packs Them In". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F20F10F93D5F0C728CDDAC0894DD484D81. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
- ^ "Concerto for Clarinet". MyTempo.com. 1991. http://www.mytempo.com/williams.htm. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
- ^ a b "John Williams: Videos" from the John Williams Fan Network, June 2, 2007.
- ^ "John Williams: the Art of the Score". Nyphil.org. 2004-02-10. http://nyphil.org/meet/archive/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=399&seasonNum=3. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- ^ "John Williams conducts the New York Philharmonic". Nyphil.org. 2007-09-14. http://nyphil.org/meet/archive/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=1361&seasonNum=7. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- ^ "John Williams". New York Philharmonic. http://nyphil.org/attend/broadcasts/index.cfm?page=broadcastDetail&broadcastKey=149. Retrieved January 6, 2008.
- ^ "John Williams: a Night at the Movies". Nyphil.org. 2009-08-23. http://nyphil.org/attend/season/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=2328&seasonNum=11. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
- ^ "Williams, John biography". http://www.8notes.com/biographies/john_williams.asp. Retrieved May 6, 2007.
- ^ "John Williams Film Music Box Biography Discography News". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927011739/http://www.filmmusicbox.com/boutique_us/page_actus_page.cfm?code_lg=lg_us&num_actus=3. Retrieved May 6, 2006.
- ^ "IOC awards the Olympic Order to John Williams". IOC. May 1, 2003. http://www.olympic.org/news?articleid=56284. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^ "Remarks by the President at Presentation of the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of the Arts | The White House". February 25, 2010. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-presentation-national-humanities-medal-and-national-medal-arts. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
- ^ "Kappa Kappa Psi Theta Beta at Boston University". http://bubands.com/kky/alumni/roster.php#honorary.
- ^ "AFI 100 Years of Film Scores". Web.archive.org. 2007-10-22. Archived from the original on 2007-10-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20071022042809/http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/scores.aspx. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
Further reading[link]
- Moormann, Peter (2010) (in German). Spielberg-Variationen: die Filmmusik von John Williams. Baden-Baden: Nomos, Edition Reinhard Fischer. p. 797. ISBN 978-3-8329-5355-3.
- Aschieri, Roberto (1999) (in Spanish). Over The Moon: La Mứsica de John Williams Para El Cine. Santigo, Chile: Función Privada, sponsored by Universidad Diego Portales. p. 400. ISBN 978-4-89799-246-4.
External links[link]
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- John Williams at the Internet Movie Database
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- Music by John Williams
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- The John Williams Web Pages
- Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame
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- John Williams discography at MusicBrainz
- John Williams at Soundtrackguide.net
- John Williams on SoundtrackNet
- John Williams Discography at SoundtrackCollector.com
- The John Williams Collection
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- Timelines John Williams (Article Part 1 of 6)
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- Critical review of Williams's career by Anthony Tommasini at New York Times (2005)
- John Williams Fan Site (Chinese language)
- John Williams on Pandora
| Preceded by Arthur Fiedler |
Conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra 1980–1993 |
Succeeded by Keith Lockhart |
| Preceded by |
Laureate Conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra 1993–present |
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| Name | Williams, John |
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| Short description | American composer |
| Date of birth | February 8, 1932 |
| Place of birth | Long Island, New York |
| Date of death | F |
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