Bob Langley
{{Short description|British television presenter}}
{{For|the clergyman|Robert Langley}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Bob Langley
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1939|08|28}}
| birth_place = Newcastle upon Tyne
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| nationality = British
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| occupation = Television presenter (Retired), Author
| years_active = 1970–1999
| known_for = Pebble Mill at One
| notable_works = Falklands Gambit {{small|(1988)}},
The Third Pinnacle {{small|(1999)}}
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Bob Langley (born 28 August 1939) is a former British television presenter, best known for being a presenter of the BBC1 afternoon chat show Pebble Mill at One. Langley also presented its late night version Saturday Night at The Mill.{{cite book|title=Falklands Gambit|last=Langley|first=Bob |year=1988|publisher=Bantam Books|isbn=0-553-27210-1|page=Arthur biography}}{{cite web|title=Bob Langley|publisher=IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486503/|accessdate=24 August 2008 }} Langley is also a novelist.
Career
Langley started his career in a Newcastle insurance office, served in the RAF, then travelled through America.From the flyleaf of Lobo - A Vagabond in America by Bob Langley ({{ISBN|0 7091 6335 5}}) published 1977 He began his broadcast career in the early days of Tyne Tees television on the nightly news programme. "The early days could be a bit catastrophic, a real string and sealing wax job," he said. "There weren't too many of us who really knew what we were doing. We didn't even have an autocue, and when we had it was like a giant toilet roll, but we had an awful lot of fun."{{cite web|last=North|first=John|title=Last pint at 'Studio Six'|publisher=Northern Echo|date=7 July 2005|url=http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2005/7/7/7446.html|accessdate=24 August 2008}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Throughout 1968 he was a newsreader on BBC television news, and from 1970 he was a reporter on Nationwide. It was as a result of his and fellow presenter Donny MacLeod's success on the latter show that they were assigned to launch Pebble Mill in 1972 alongside Marian Foster.{{cite web|last=Jones|first=Ian|title=The Good Word|publisher=Off The Telly|date=July 2002|url=http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?page_id=582|accessdate=24 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608045509/http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?page_id=582|archive-date=8 June 2011|url-status=dead}} {{cite web|title=Bob Langley|date=3 March 1979 |publisher=BBC Genome|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a276c2f0b2554749b56e0c17304aa93f|accessdate=28 January 2024 }}
Bob Langley also wrote several novels, including The War of the Running Fox (1978). and a number of non-fiction works including a study of the sinking of the Argentinian light cruiser General Belgrano and a coast-to-coast guide, "Walking the Scottish Border".
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0486503}}
- [https://www.pebblemill.org/tag/bob-langley/ Bob Langley - What Was Pebble Mill?]
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Category:British reporters and correspondents
Category:British television personalities
Category:English television presenters