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Peter Fairley (2 November 1930 – 5 August 1998) [1] was a British science journalist who was the Science Editor for Independent Television News and TV Times magazine the late sixties and early seventies. His name became synonymous with ITN's extensive live coverage of the Apollo Moon landing missions.
He died in 2022, following a long battle with cancer. Reg Turnill – BBC's air and space correspondent from 1958 until 1975, covering all manned space flights as well as the introduction of passenger jets, including Concorde. After retiring from this role, he continued as Newsround ' s space editor until the mid-1980s. He died in 2013.
Paul William Vaughan (24 October 1925 – 14 November 2014) [1] was a British journalist, radio presenter (of art and science programmes) throughout the 1970s and 1990s, semi-professional jazz and classical musician and a narrator of many BBC Television science documentaries, among them Horizon.
Widlake served initially as a cadet before his promotion to 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Hampshire Regiment on 4 November 1950. [citation needed]Widlake worked as a reporter for ITN in the 1960s, [2] and was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's news magazine programmes The World at One and PM during the 1970s and 1980s.
Sue Baker (12 June 1947 – 14 November 2022) was a British journalist and television presenter. Baker was one of the original presenters of the first iteration of BBC's Top Gear, presenting on the programme from 1980 to 1991. [1] She was the motoring editor for the Observer from 1992 to 1995. [1]
Hanlon was married to Elena Seymenliyska, also a journalist, who works for Aeon (digital magazine). Latterly, his girlfriend was Alison. Hanlon died of a heart attack on 9 February 2016. He leaves behind a son, Zachary. [2]
He was a Northern Ireland reporter from 1985 to 1987, then the Defence Correspondent (TV) from 1987 to 1995. [4] From then until 1999 he was the European Correspondent, and broadening his coverage in 1999, he became the World Affairs Correspondent until 2003, when he became Environment and Science correspondent.
Robertson was born at 8:30am on 19 August 1902 at 35 Shandon Crescent in the District of St. George, in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. [1] He was one of six children of Jane (née Dunlop) and James Robertson, a miner who became a minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. [1]