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Jan Leeming Biography
Although best known as a Television Newsreader, Jan has had a long and varied career in television and started her working life in theatre.
Born in Kent, Jan went to New Zealand and Australia in the early 60's where she appeared on both stage and television. She was the first woman newsreader on Television in Sydney in 1963 - quite a coup for a male dominated society and before the emergence of Women's Lib.!!
Her theatrical credits included a gruelling seven month tour of New South Wales with a Shakespearean Company called The Young Elizabethans. Jan played Portia in The Merchant of Venice and a witch in Macbeth - that's Rep. for you! Back in Sydney she played the part of Georgie in Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head opposite the late Robin Bailey. Jan starred with another well known English actor, Jack Watling, when she appeared in the John Chapman farce Diplomatic Baggage. She was invited to join the prestigious Union Repertory Company in Melbourne where she played Natasha in War and Peace and the lead in The Young Wife a tragic story about arranged marriages and the Greek community in Australia.
At the end of 1966, Jan returned home and her first job was as a Newsreader for Granada Television in Manchester. In 1968 she joined The Oxford Playh
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On temporary loan from BBC Radio, to BBC Television news and coverage of the Iranian siege in 1980, Jan Leeming gained a more permanent contract and unsought fame which in turn helped and hindered her life. Here, she talks about her not always trouble-free BBC years and the men she has loved.
Twice voted Newsreader of the Year, and also Pye TV Personality, Jan Leeming started her working life as a secretary before achieving her ambition to become an actress, not at home but in Australia. A personal tragedy drove her back to her native England, where, unable to earn a living in theatre, she turned to television. Jan worked for many years in regional TV, newsreading and fronting magazine programmes before hitting the big time. On temporary loan from BBC Radio to BBC Television News and coverage of the Iranian siege in 1980 led to a more permanent contract and unsought fame which in turn helped and hindered her life. In A
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Jan Leeming
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