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Bruce Parker is a British journalist and television presenter whose career spanned the middle 1960s to 2003 , when he retired. Strongly committed to regional broadcasting, he was responsible in the mid-1960s for a pilot local radio station in the Channel Islands , which eventually led to the setting up of a string of BBC local radio stations across the whole country. In 1967 he joined BBC South in Southampton , where he remained for most of his career, making a name as a regular presenter and reporter for '' South Today ''. He was also a respected political interviewer and later BBC South's political editor, hosting the parliamentary roundup ''South of Westminster''. In the 1970s he became a familiar face to viewers in the rest of Britain, first as a news reporter and later as the first (though short-lived) host of ''The Antiques Roadshow '' and a regular presenter of "Nationwide". He also presented the arts magazine ''Mainstream''. In September 1977 he filed probably his most famous news reports, about the story of Victor, a giraffe at Marwell Zoological Park . He was also the BBC commentator for the raising of the '' Mary Rose '' in October 1982 , clips of which regularly appear on nostalgia and retrospective programmes. |
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