Countryfile: John Craven's Heritage Yorkshire - The River Nidd
09:30 am - 10:30 am, Wednesday, August 19 on BBC One London (1)
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John Craven's Heritage Yorkshire - The River Nidd
Season 2025, Episode 1
Knaresborough is a place steeped in history. With castles, cliffs and caves it's textbook Yorkshire heritage. But it's the River Nidd's story that flows through it all. John Craven explores the history shaped by the river, before meeting those who care for it today. John also dips into the archives to we see how water has shaped other parts of Yorkshire landscape
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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.
Mark Beech
(Series editor)
Becky Pratt
(Series producer)
