Following IanWhiteNews's announcement that he is leaving BBC Look North, we took a look through our archives and found this great interview with ChrisBurn_Post back in 2018
“I thought isn’t it amazing and that began my interest. I became a bit of an anorak and used to video the news and keep it. I had a friend with relatives in Yorkshire who recorded Calendar and Look North for me. On this VHS, there was this bloke called Harry Gration, who is now on of my colleagues.”
Unbeknown to White, Taylor was also a TV producer who offered Ian a job as a researcher. He was set to work on helping with a programme about the history of bicycles. “My specific job was to recreate the scenes they used to have in London with penny farthing bikes, with very specific uniforms,” he recalls. “I had to recreate the 1800s and find some penny farthings and these uniforms.
It was a promise he has more than kept - White began collecting memorabilia, press releases and briefing notes connected to the show and even eventually went on to buy the TV-am intellectual property rights and trademark, going on to set up a dedicated website and a physical archive at his home in Wakefield.
White says the most professionally-satisfying reports he has done have been ones in which people have trusted him to tell their stories, often in difficult circumstances. He says that includes interviewing Karen Strong, the mother of Jamie Still, a teenager from Otley who was killed by a drink-driver on New Year’s Eve 2010. “She felt I was someone she could trust to tell her story, which is great. We did a few stories and our coverage ended up being spoken about in Parliament.
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