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    From 1972 until 1989, 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 Space Shuttle Challenger ...

  2. Feb 28, 2022 · COUNTRYFILE’S John Craven, 81, has admitted ‘health issues have crept up on him’ in a rare personal update. The presenter has been a staple on our TV screens for 50 years, having …

  3. Jun 17, 2022 · 2022-06-17 - John Craven, born October 23 1940, died March 30 2022. SIR JOHN CRAVEN, who has died aged 81, was one of the City’s most influentia­l dealmakers, having brokered many of the marriages of banks and stock exchange firms that formed the Big Bang revolution of the mid-1980s. After a stellar early career in the Eurobond markets with ...

  4. Jun 27, 2024 · In his 2019 memoir, Headlines and Hedgerows, John Craven writes that – on his first attempt to film a TV news story – a cameraman told him, ‘A movie camera either likes you or not and John, you’re lucky.’ John Craven believes you make your own luck. Exactly. John Craven cast in cake! John celebrated 25 years on Countryfile, with cake ...

  5. Published: September 26, 2017 at 2:11 am. John Craven originally hails from Leeds, where he began his career as a junior reporter at the Harrogate Advertiser. After stints in local radio and television he hosted John Craven’s Newsround from 1972, also presenting shows such as Swap Shop. John has always considered himself to be a country ...

  6. Aug 11, 2019 · Never work with animals or children, the saying goes. Since his television debut in 1958, John Craven has worked almost exclusively with both and it doesn’t seem to have done him any harm – in ...

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  8. Then, in 1972, he made television history presenting the first BBC news programme specially made for children – John Craven’s Newsround. John helped to shape the show.