Geraldine Peers

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Geraldine Peers is a broadcast journalist, currently the main presenter of BBC South's local TV opt-out service for Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Swindon and areas of Berkshire, Northamptonshire & the Cotswolds.^[1]

Peers studied communications at Leeds and contemporary culture in York before completing a postgraduate course in journalism at Birmingham University. In 1995, she joined the now-defunct Central News South service in her home town of Abingdon, Oxfordshire and became a reporter, presenter and bulletin editor.^[2]

Peers left Central News in 2001 to join BBC South as the main presenter of South Today from Oxford and now fronts 15-minute bulletins for the sub-region at 6:30pm from Monday to Thursday, a full 30-minute programme on Fridays, mid-afternoon updates and late bulletins after the BBC News at Ten each weekday night.

On Friday 22 March 2013, at the end of the early-evening programme, Geraldine Peers announced: "this was the last regular Friday half-hour edition of South Today from Oxford."^[3]

References

↑ BBC South Today - Geraldine Peers profile
↑ TV ARK - 'P' presenters' profiles
↑ http://www.facebook.com/BBCSouthToday BBC South Today on facebook

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