![]() ![]() She also covered the San Remo Song Festival, Italy. At this time, she also hosted other specials for Associated-Rediffusion, including The Glad Rag Ball at Wembley, starring the Rolling Stones, and the British Song Festival in Brighton. Nightingale presented the pop culture show, booked guest musicians who had not previously been seen on TV such as The Yardbirds and introduced The Who’s first promotion film. Nightingale joined Associated-Rediffusion TV and hosted her own show That's For Me. She became the newspaper’s first pop music columnist.Īs a result of meeting Dusty Springfield and her manager Vicki Wickham, editor of the new ground-breaking pop TV show Ready Steady Go, Nightingale was invited to host a new sister TV show. The latter involved interviews with Sean Connery in his first James Bond role and Peter Sellars on location. A year later she was promoted to the Brighton Evening Argus, as a general reporter, feature writer, and diarist. ![]() Nightingale had joined the weekly Brighton and Hove Gazette as a general reporter. After attending St Catherine's School, Twickenham, Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, Middlesex (by scholarship), and the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) School of Journalism, Nightingale began her career as a journalist in Brighton, East Sussex.ĭuring the early to mid-sixties Nightingale explored opportunities working in television, both as a reporter for BBC's Southampton /Bristol based news programme South Today and light entertainment and music programmes for the ITV Network Southern TV (now ITV Meridian.) Nightingale was born in Osterley, Middlesex on 1 April 1940, the daughter of Celia and Basil Nightingale. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 in 1970, and is its longest-serving presenter. Annie Avril Nightingale CBE (born 1 April 1940) is an English radio and television broadcaster. ![]()
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