Career
She is most famous for presenting the BBC1 afternoon chat show Pebble Mill at One for fourteen years, from 1972 to 1986. Before that she was one of Independent Television"s first women reporters. She was also a host on the BBC2 car show Top Gear.
Later on television she fronted gardening reports for Look North.
She worked in Ethiopia filming the results of Live Aid. She has degrees in Geography and Education, working as a Geography teacher in both Newcastle and London.
On radio she has presented music programmes on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 and is now a DJ on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Newcastle, hosting the weekly gardening show on Sunday afternoons.
