Vivien creeger biography of william

Vivien was born in London and admits to being on the wrong side of 55.  She began her career at the BBC in 1976 as a production assistant in BBC Drama, where she also abridged books for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime.  Vivien was invited on to the BBC’s in-house broadcast training scheme and was taken on by BBC Radio 4 as an announcer (1980 – 1982).

She moved to television and presented BBC Bristol’s Points West (1983 – 1989), during which time she also read the national lunchtime news in London – News after Noon (1st August – 30th September 1983) and hourly news summaries.  She also co-presented, alongside Moira Stuart, News View (BBC Two, 28th March – 18th May 1988) and read the weekend news on BBC Radio 2.  Vivien was then seconded to the BBC’s sports and events department to co-present Transit with the late Mike Smith.  It went out live on BBC Two on Friday evenings and highlighted transport