Countryfile: John Craven's Heritage Yorkshire: Heritage in the Making
09:30 am - 10:30 am, Tuesday, August 18 on BBC One London (1)
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John Craven's Heritage Yorkshire: Heritage in the Making
Season 2025, Episode 1
John Craven uncovers Yorkshire's rich heritage through traditional grains and age-old crafts - from the historic Holgate Windmill still grinding flour the old-fashioned way, to a cutting-edge, solar-powered micro-distillery turning heritage grains into sustainable spirits. John also looks back through archives at other traditional skills and time-honoured crafts that have shaped the heart of rural life
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John Craven
(Presenter)
Born:
August 16, 1940
in
Leeds
Best Known For:
John Craven's Newsround and Countryfile.
Early-life:
Born in Leeds on August 16, 1940, and was educated at Leeds Modern School; other famous pupils include playwright Alan Bennett and actor Bob Peck. Craven started his professional life in print journalism as a junior reporter on 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 TV, before moving to the BBC in Bristol.
Career:
From 1972 he was the eponymous host of a regular children's news programme, Newsround, often called John Craven's Newsround. The first such programme ever produced by British TV, it drew on the full journalistic resources of the BBC, and featured a number of news scoops, it being the first news programme of the day on TV during its early years. In 1989 he left the Newsround programme and began to present what was then the BBC's new rural affairs programme, Countryfile; although no longer its main presenter, he remains a fixture on the show.
Quote:
'The reality is that country people now have to fight to keep the things that once were taken for granted.'
Trivia:
He was awarded an OBE in 2000.
Becky Pratt
(Series producer)
Mark Beech
(Series editor)
