Background
Peach was born in 1935 in the Riverina town of Lockhart, New South Wales.
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Bill Peach
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He was educated at a boarding school, Street Stanislaus College in Bathurst, and then studied a master of arts degree at Street John"s College, University of Sydney, where he met his future wife, Shirley.
Career
Peach joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission (American Broadcasting Company) in 1958, as a specialist trainee in the talks department. In 1960, he joined the Sydney office of the British Broadcasting Corporation (British Broadcasting Corporation) where he worked in program sales. Returning to Australia in 1965, Peach joined Network Ten, where he co-produced and presented Australia"s first current affairs program, Telescope, with Tanya Halesworth.
In 1966, he returned to the American Broadcasting Company as a reporter for Four Corners.
In 1967, he was appointed as the presenter of American Broadcasting Company"s new evening current affairs series, This Day Tonight, which he hosted for eight years. In 1975, Peach left This Day Tonight and was awarded a Logie in that year for Outstanding Contribution to Television in recognition of his eight years of service on the program
He then hosted a travel series called Peach"s Australia and wrote two books in the Ginger Meggs series. Bill Peach also wrote The Explorers, published in 1984, dealing with the early European explorers of Australia during the colonial era and presented the eponymous television show.
After leaving the American Broadcasting Company, Peach started a travel and tourism company, Bill Peach Journeys.
Peach died of cancer at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney in the early morning of 27 August 2013.
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