John marsh newsreader biography

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Humorous contributors [ edit ]. Pause for Thought [ edit ]. Holidays and cover [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. BBC News. Retrieved 7 September BBC Press Office. Retrieved 18 December BBC Radio 2. His wife Janet, however, is suspicious, quick to conclude that John is being unfaithful and even quicker to attack John with a rolling pin, frying pan or whatever else comes to hand.

John never understands why he has provoked such a reaction. Most stories were set in their home Sussex village where Pastor Kidneys is the local vicar. Other inhabitants and recurring characters include Yorkshirewoman Mrs Bickerdyke who runs the suspicious-sounding Wealdstone Tan and Touch-Up Emporium, and Melanie Frontage, who runs a special shop with black windows that Janet strongly disapproves of.

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Other than the vicar there are very few men in the village during the day as most of the people John meets on his travels are women, which leads Janet to assume the worst. A key point of the Janet and John stories is the way that Terry Wogan was able to tell them in an entirely inoffensive manner. It may seem a contradiction, but the way he would burst out with uncontrollable laughter while telling the stories reassured listeners that it was all innocent innuendo perfectly suitable for being broadcast when children were listening.

The stories seem far ruder in text than Terry would ever make them sound. Each story begins with a description of the bizarre outfit John is wearing today, typically something outrageously sparkly with sequins, brocaded cuffs, frills, lapels and gold braid. Janet takes John out somewhere, holding onto his reins to prevent him crossing the road unsupervised, before she has to leave him for a few minutes and makes him promise to be good and meet her a few minutes later.

John then has a look around wherever he happens to be and goes out of his way to be sociable and help those he meets. For example, if he were to be at a dog show in the church hall, he would help the Pastor carry the cage containing his boxer dog puppies down the steps from the vicarage. He would then look at the other dogs in the show such as the Schnauzer belonging to Melanie Frontage, and helped her carry a heavy box of fashionable dog coats and chic accessories for sale to a table far from the church hall's entrance.

He would then meet up with Janet, who would ask what he had been up to.

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Unfortunately the innocent John would always phrase things wrong, and so he would tell her that he had taken the Pastor's boxers down, admired Melanie Frontage's Schnauzer and took her doggy fashion round the back of the church hall. Janet would then respond violently, with John never understanding why. After a few years of that, Radio 4 beckoned, and there he stayed for ten years before moving to Radio 2 in These days he's to be heard reading the news, but in the past he has presented programmes such as Marching and Waltzing, and even a couple of editions of Friday Night is Music Night.

Having mentioned on the breakfast show his passion for playing the pipe organ, he has since had the chance to play some of the best in the country, from Lincoln Cathedral to the Wurlitzer at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool. Married with two grown-up kids, John lives in Sussex. Search term:. For other people with the title Sir Terry, see Sir Terry disambiguation.

They often take on pseudonyms, as did the newsreaders, prior to February List of news presenters by nationality — This is a list of news presenters by nationality. John Marsh newsreader.