About Anglia - Former Presenters

Former Presenters

Many About Anglia personalities moved on to national prominence.

• Judy Finnegan came to Anglia in the mid-1970s from Granada Television as a reporter and presenter. She married and settled in Norwich, making her name in 1977 when she gave birth to twin sons and, the following day, proudly showed off the babies on About Anglia. She left to return to Granada as co-host of Granada Reports.

• Bob Wellings, well known for covering quirky offbeat stories on About Anglia, became a presenter of BBC Television’s current affairs Nationwide programme during 1971-79.

• Alastair Yates joined About Anglia in 1987 following a period with Grampian Television's North Tonight, but left two years later to become the first presenter on Sky News in Britain.

Other presenters and journalists who appeared regularly on the programme during its almost thirty years on air included: