Making THE NEWS
Their faces are as familiar as family, and even when the news is dreadful, we’d rather hear it from them. Back in 1975, Angela Rippon was the BBC’s first permanent female newscaster. When she danced on Morecambe and Wise’s Christmas show a year later, she wowed viewers who’d never seen her legs before – and what legs they were! Moira Stuart was another barrier-buster, becoming the first female Caribbean newsreader on British TV in 1981. She later presented every news bulletin devised by the BBC, aside from the Ten O’Clock News. Foreign correspondent Orla Guerin was given her first flak jacket without armour plates, which she said was ‘as
