John Craven
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John Craven OBE FLS |
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| Born |
John Raymond Craven 16 August 1940 Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Residence | Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Journalist and broadcaster |
| Employer | BBC |
| Known for |
Presenting: Newsround Countryfile Beat the Brain |
John Raymond Craven, OBE, FLS (born 16 August 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, best known for presenting the BBC programmes Newsround, Countryfile and Beat the Brain.
Craven was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire and educated at Leeds Modern School. He left school at 16 and began an apprenticeship at Yorkshire Copperworks, writing for the company magazine. He started his 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. He joined the BBC staff in Newcastle upon Tyne to work on local radio and television, before moving to the BBC in Bristol in 1970.
From 1972, Craven was the eponymous host of a regular children's news programme, Newsround, originally called John Craven's Newsround. The first such programme ever produced by British television, it drew on the full journalistic resources of the BBC. It featured a number of news scoops, including the Challenger shuttle disaster in 1986, which occurred minutes before the programme went on air.
Craven became associated with children's TV and presented news items on other children's programmes, such as Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and Saturday Superstore. Years later he also became editor of Newsround.
Craven left the Newsround programme in 1989, having presented more than 3,000 episodes, and began presenting a countryside news programme, Countryfile, for the BBC.
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