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john craven

About Me

I started my professional life in print journalism as a junior reporter on a local newspaper, the Harrogate Advertiser, before working for the Yorkshire Post and as a freelance correspondent and writer for national newspapers. I then joined the BBC staff in Newcastle upon Tyne, to work on local radio and television, before moving to the BBC in Bristol. It was in Bristol where i developed a passion for extreme metal and formed the "grindcore" band "Rotten Spunkthroat". In 1972, I began a regular children's news programme, Newsround. The first such programme ever produced for British television, it drew on the full journalistic resources of the BBC. I became associated with children's TV and presented news items on other children's programmes, such as Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and Saturday Superstore. The following year I took "Rotten Spunkthroat" on the road for the first time, we played a series of low-key dates in Hereford and Stroud. It went well, I scored lot's. In 1989 I left the Newsround team and began to present a countryside news programme, Countryfile, for the BBC. This enabled me to spend more time on the music and eating crab pies.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Farmers, Monkey Breeders, Talking Horses, Michaela Strachan in the nude, Cow Grinders, Napalm Death.

My Blog

Countryfile the magazine !! latest issue

..tr>..tr> FREE: YOUR NEXT 16 GREAT DAYS OUT CARDSRediscover Britain's constantly evolving coastline with this month's Great Days Out Coastal Special  16 pull-out guides to keep and collect or thr...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:43:00 GMT

my top ten canals

Yorkshire-born TV presenter John Craven has been speaking to the BBC's Countryfile magazine about his top ten waterways around the UK. John, who is currently vice president of The Waterways Trust a...
Posted by on Sat, 31 May 2008 08:03:00 GMT