"Starting at the BBC in the early 1980s, Peter worked as a producer on the first airing of Breakfast Time, on 17 January 1983. It was a live programme with Frank Bough, Selina Scott, the astrologer Russell Grant, and Green Goddess Diana Moran among its familiar faces. The following year Peter was nominated for a Bafta for the programme's coverage of the Brighton bombing, together with his colleagues David Lloyd and Sandy McCourt."
"I was a fellow reporter on the paper and we married in 1970. In 1969 he joined the Leatherhead and Dorking Advertiser series as a news editor and subeditor, then the Fleet Street Evening News from 1971. This experience, and shifts on the Express and Mirror, led to him running the Daily Star news desk from 1979 before moving to the BBC."
Peter O'Kill, born in Clapham and raised in Croydon, trained at St Joseph's College in Upper Norwood. He began as a trainee reporter in 1964 on the Baker's Review and worked at the Bury Free Press and Leicester Mercury, where he met his future wife. He moved through regional titles to Fleet Street, working at the Evening News, Express, Mirror, and running the Daily Star news desk from 1979. He joined the BBC in the early 1980s, produced the first Breakfast Time in 1983, helped launch the One O'Clock News, edited Weekend News and Sport, and became associate editor of Breakfast News. He lectured at Ravensbourne College and retired early in 1996.
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