A journalist who inspires me

By Ammie McGowan

Informaon about Peter

• Born 5 September 1955. • Brish actor, television and radio presenter. • Has cows in Beverly West Wood. • Currently Hosts BBC Look North. • Has his own Radio show BBC Radio Humberside, The Peter Levy Show. Why Peter Levy?

• He presents the news well. • He’s good at what he does. • Very inquisive when interviewing people on the show. • Always determined to get the answers he and the audience wants. • And finally he shows his personality when he presents. Peter Levy and

• hp://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0qMRt68olU4 Audience

The audience would be people in their mid 20’s onwards. It would be for male and females. It will manly be for the older generaon, who are familiar with Peter Levy and who normally what BBC Look North everyday. For the younger generaon it will be for students who are studying journalism or would just like to know about Peter Levy. Inial ideas

How I decided to Layout my Magazine.

• I decided to lay it out like a news paper, as that’s what Peter does, he presents the news. • I created News paper headlines for the tles of his career

A face for the radio From actor to presenter

• I also set out the informaon given on Peter into columns, so it looked like a news story.

My final product.

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acting days when Peter played in some of the TV classics like Dixon Of Dock -*).-'/01,"# Green, !e Mike Yarwood Show, Com- edy Playhouse and Man About !e House. He says of the new Look North: “!e area deserves it and I’m pleased to be an integral part of it all. I’ve got a "at in Victoria Dock and it’s a really fantastic area to live in. Also I can walk to work in the city centre in ten minutes or so. “I’ve always found the Hull people to friendly, warm and polite. I knew they !"#"$%$"&'$#()*%')%++,%-''.%/'$#01 would be very welcoming and I’ve found that they’re very keen on all the Spurn Point remains as one of his fa- things the BBC now has to o#er them. vourite walks and one of his “It’s exciting for me to be in at the favourite places, though he’s now added beginning of a new venture. I want to Barton On Humber - “a really beautiful make the new, dedicated programme and hidden-away village on the South something everyone in Hull can be bank.” proud of.” In addition to his TV work, Peter has Peter adds: “!e City is at the heart of !"#$%&'()'*))%'+),("'-.(.,'*./0'"#&'1.2)3.'#$'.#&('0),%&"4,.' kept up his passion for radio and now all this major new BBC investment. If &.$&#(4)$5 hosts a daily show on BBC Lincolnshire people here ever felt behind the times and BBC Humberside. He also revived in the past, they’ve now overtaken Peter Levy feels as Yorkshire as they To Peter’s surprise, he was hired his acting skills for an episode of Last of everyone in one fell swoop.” come, all thanks to a high-risk strate- and found himself with a career in the Summer Wine, which was shown in Peter is no stranger to Hull and its sur- gy by a now-famous MP! broadcasting instead of the acting 2003. rounding area and has fond memories Peter, now the presenter of the all- career he had set out on. of his involvement over the years. Natu- Reported by Ammie McGowan new East Yorkshire version of BBC TV soon followed and for years, rally, he’s been to the Hull New !eatre Look North, has lived in "God's he’s been the familiar daytime BBC many times, his love of acting still being Country" since his late teens. news reader throughout Yorkshire a major interest. He’s recently been out He had applied for a job on a new and Lincolnshire, as well as having on a speedboat in the Humber - “a very commercial radio station in the patch his own BBC radio show. exhilarating experience which I’d rec- and was interviewed by renowned Now, he’s moved to Hull full time ommend to everyone.” broadcaster Austin Mitchell, now the for BBC Look North’s new nightly high-pro$le Labour MP across the news programme from studios in Humber in Great Grimsby. the city. Back page. For on the Web

For on the Web an idea I had was to set it up as Breaking News Headlines.

I was also thinking of creang a video of Peter Levy, featuring an interview with Peter Levy, with quesons of what his audiences would like to know. Also I will add what he likes to do on a day by day basis.