Rebecca

There are some new outriders keeping an eye on the BBC, after the elections for the DCMS Select Committee. 

We've already tracked the political career of Julian Knight, 45 (Chester Catholic High School and Hull University) MP for Solihull, a man riddled with no doubt at all about broadcasting and Brexit.

Rebecca Pow, 56 (La Sainte Union Convent, and Wye College, London University) is MP for Taunton Deane. Rebecca's first taste of the media was presenting a programme called Country Connections at commercial station Radio West in the early 80s (when Johnnie Walker was re-building a UK career there). There followed two years on the production team of Farming Today, and a tv reporting job with HTV.

As recently as 2011, Rebecca was pursuing her media ambitions with her own show reel...


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