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John Raymond Craven, (born 16 August 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, best known for presenting the

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programmes '' Newsround'', ''

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'' and '' Beat the Brain''.

Early life

Craven was born in

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, West Riding of Yorkshire and educated at Leeds Modern School. Craven's father was held as a

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in Japan for three years during

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. He left school at 16 and began an apprenticeship at Yorkshire Copperworks, writing for the company magazine.

Career

He started his professional life in print journalism as a junior reporter on a local newspaper, the ''Harrogate Advertiser'', before working for the ''

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'' and as a freelance correspondent and writer for national newspapers.

Television

He joined the BBC staff in

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to work on local radio and television, before moving to the BBC in

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in 1970. From 1972, Craven was the eponymous host of a regular children's news programme, '' Newsround'', originally called ''John Craven's Newsround''. The first such programme ever produced by British television, it drew on the full journalistic resources of the

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. It featured a number of news scoops, including the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster in 1986, which occurred minutes before the programme went on air. Craven became associated with children's TV and presented news items on other children's programmes, such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. Years later he also became editor of ''Newsround''. Craven left the ''Newsround'' programme in 1989, having presented more than 3,000 episodes, and began presenting a countryside news programme, ''

'', for the BBC. In 2015, he presented the BBC Two game show series '' Beat the Brain'', which began airing on 11 May.

Other work

In 2014, Craven took part in

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's All Star Choir. They released a cover version of the single " Wake Me Up" in November 2014 to raise money for the

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's Children in Need charity. The choir were filmed for a two-part documentary called ''Gareth's All Star Choir''. It was shown on 3 and 10 November 2014 on

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Charity

Craven is one of nine presidents of the

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. He is vice-president of the Waterways Trust and Patron of SPANA. On 10 July 2016, he was appointed as President of Radio Horton, the charitable hospital radio station for

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Personal life

Craven is married and has two daughters. He lives in Oxfordshire. Of his career, he has said he expected he would be retired at some future time rather than give up the work he liked so much.

Awards and honours

In 1996, he was elected a member of the Royal Television Society, and awarded the RTS Baird Medal in 2002. He was awarded the OBE in the

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for services to rural and children's broadcasting. He is a fellow of the

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. In November 2011, Craven attended the British Academy Children's Awards to collect a Special Award for ''Newsround'' in recognition of its contribution to television.

References

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