English television and radio presenter (born 1937)
Valerie Singleton
OBE
Born
(1937-04-09) 9 April 1937 (age 87)
Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation(s)
Television and radio presenter
Years active
1959–present
Notable work
Blue Peter (1962–1972) Money Programme (1980–1988)
Valerie SingletonOBE (born 9 April 1937) is an English television and radio presenter best known as a regular presenter of the popular children's series Blue Peter from 1962 to 1972. She also presented the BBC Radio 4 PM programme for ten years as well as a series of radio and television programmes on financial and business issues including BBC's The Money Programme from 1980 to 1988.
ValerieSingleton OBE (born 9 April 1937) is an English television and radio presenter best known as a regular presenter of the popular children's series...
presenter, with a tenure of over ten years, beating ValerieSingleton by three months. However, although Singleton left the series full-time in 1972 to present...
editions, making her the shortest-serving presenter, and was replaced by ValerieSingleton, who presented regularly until 1972, and on special assignments until...
in to the show when ValerieSingleton began to diversify her television career in 1972, Judd initially presented with Singleton, John Noakes and Peter...
have been awarded them when appearing as guests on the programme. ValerieSingleton was awarded a gold badge during a studio interview recorded for the...
Biddy Baxter needed a third presenter to join Christopher Trace and ValerieSingleton after the show went from a weekly to a twice-weekly format. Baxter...
1967 to 1978. He co-presented Blue Peter first with John Noakes and ValerieSingleton and then with Noakes and Lesley Judd, during the programme's perceived...
occasionally presented Newsnight and other news bulletins over the years. ValerieSingleton – presenter on the late evening TV programme Tonight from 1975. She...
week in 1964. Baxter was a divisive figure for some ex-presenters. ValerieSingleton has said Baxter treated the presenters like children. However, Peter...
Lawley left Tonight on maternity leave in 1978, being replaced by ValerieSingleton, and after her maternity leave, rejoined Nationwide as one of the...
Michael Aspel, which claimed he had affairs with Pamela Anderson, ValerieSingleton and Angie Best, among others. Aspel guest hosted the topical quiz...
which were the subject of a television special hosted by presenter ValerieSingleton. Later in the summer, the Queen and Prince Philip embarked on a Commonwealth...
by ValerieSingleton and later by Peter Purves and Lesley Judd both of whom had been presenters on Blue Peter itself. Series One featured Valerie Singleton...
feature its contemporary presenters, John Noakes, Peter Purves, and ValerieSingleton. "Paddington Takes the Cake" – Paddington is invited to bake a Christmas...
Eighth Army in Northern Italy during 1944–45, died in Templecombe. ValerieSingleton, TV presenter. "Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes – SUMMARY...
in 1992 from cancer of the oesophagus while living in Walthamstow. ValerieSingleton and Biddy Baxter visited him in hospital days before his death. The...
1979 he became producer of the weekly Tonight in Town, hosted by ValerieSingleton and Michael Billington. In 1983 he was seconded from the BBC's Music...
Miller Produced by Stanley Long Starring Vivienne Raimon Narrated by ValerieSingleton Cinematography Stanley Long Production company Miracle-Searchlight...
show's fortieth anniversary in 1998. In contrast, her replacement, ValerieSingleton, ahead of whom West had come in earlier auditions, became the show's...
Oliver Reed at home in Broom Hal - Nationwide, BBC Archive, with ValerieSingleton, originally broadcast 17 January, 1977 Media related to Broome Hall...
to the accompaniment of Nat 'King' Cole playing Let There Be Love, ValerieSingleton proposed marriage to Mair live on Radio 4's PM programme, in line...
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