Peter Levy
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| Born | September 5, 1955 Farnborough |
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| Occupation | Television & Radio Presenter |
| Children | None |
| Website bbc.co.uk Presenter Profile |
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Peter Levy (born September 5, 1955, Farnborough) is a British television and radio presenter, currently host of the BBC regional news programme Look North, broadcast from Hull to East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. He hails from the South West, and came to Yorkshire in his late teens.
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[edit] Career
Although wanting to become an airline pilot when younger (he still enjoys flying), Levy was a disc jockey at Bradford's Pennine Radio (now The Pulse of West Yorkshire) from its launch in 1975 - having been hired by Austin Mitchell. He was an actor in his teenage years having secured small roles in shows such as Man About The House and Z Cars. He became a presenter at Liverpool's Radio City in 1979, starting on the afternoon show.
Peter once worked at the same station as James Whale who is the current late-night talk host on the national commercial station talkSPORT.
He moved to Leeds-based Radio Aire, and then, in January 1987, to the BBC, eventually having a lunchtime show at BBC Radio Leeds. At this time he started as a regular stand-in presenter for the Leeds edition of Look North, always doing the breakfast bulletins.
Look North was broadcast across the whole of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region at the time Levy started to work on it. Peter became the regular breakfast and lunchtime presenter of Look Leeds in the mid 90s. When the BBC split the region into two, Levy moved to present the Hull edition full-time.
His former girlfriend, Jenny Hill, has now moved from the Hull to the Leeds BBC newsroom.
[edit] External links
- BBC Biography.
- BBC Look North: East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.
- 'Peter Levy talks rubbish' with Andy Comfort of BBC Radio Humberside (Includes audio interview).
- Levy Letter.
- TV Newsroom.
- Presenter picture at Radio City (far right of image)
- Early web page produced when at Radio Leeds.
- His memories of Radio City
- Anorak's site.
