Jan Leeming - Addicted to Love
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Twice voted Newsreader of the Year and TV Personality of the Year, Jan Leeming has had a long and varied career in television. In 2003 she released her autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. Never before released as an audio book, Jan now takes to the Podcast airwaves to put that right. "Someone needs to give Jan Leeming her own show, immediately. The woman is a revelation" - Stuart Heritage, The Guardian 1/2/2010 Bookings: simon@simonwhittam.com
Location:
United States
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Twice voted Newsreader of the Year and TV Personality of the Year, Jan Leeming has had a long and varied career in television. In 2003 she released her autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. Never before released as an audio book, Jan now takes to the Podcast airwaves to put that right. "Someone needs to give Jan Leeming her own show, immediately. The woman is a revelation" - Stuart Heritage, The Guardian 1/2/2010 Bookings: simon@simonwhittam.com
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.janleeming.com/
Episodes
My Search for Rene Mouchotte
11/1/2022
When Jan Leeming received an invitation to the annual Battle of Britain Memorial Day in July 2007 she had no idea of the journey it would set her upon. After sponsoring a name on the Memorial she set about finding out more about the stranger she had been allocated.
"After a professional lifetime of interviewing and researching I was eager to find out more.... up came Rene's name on a Google search and the fact that he had written diaries during the war, which were published post-war... I...
Duration:00:40:55
Chapter Fourteen - Kent and Chris
7/12/2022
Jan Leeming concludes the reading of her autobiography 'Addicted to Love' - taking us back to 2002. Romance beckons again and leads to a move to Kent. She talks of her friendship with Jill Dando "I was incredibly flattered when Jill told me I'd been her role model in my days at HTV" and how sunflowers remind her of her. Then returning home she finds a note from her husband and her world falls apart "It took a second or two for reality to dawn. I still remember the cold shiver that went...
Duration:01:20:25
Chapter Thirteen - The Darkest Days
7/5/2022
Reeling from her separation Jan plans a trip to South Africa but the press soon get word of her woes and pursue her for a story. She accepts a job on The Big Breakfast "It was pure adrenalin that kept me going, as I'd had very little sleep for days" before jetting off. "Not only did I miss my husband desperately, but there was no regular work to take my mind off the situation, and I was concerned about the future financially. I knew the house would have to go. It had always been seen as the...
Duration:00:38:09
Chapter Twelve - The Luckiest Woman on Earth?
6/28/2022
Jan causes controversy when Labour's communications director Peter Mandelson writes to the BBC to complain about her recording a Party Political Broadcast for the Conservatives. Plans progress for her forthcoming marriage, to be held in Provence and she becomes one of the first presenters on This Morning, hosting the strand 'Makers' which viewers go wild for. "I've always been fascinated by the Arts and Crafts world and we covered so many interesting subjects: the making of love spoons;...
Duration:00:59:53
Chapter Eleven - Leaving the BBC
6/21/2022
Jan becomes a firm favourite of TV viewers with viewing figures for the Sunday evening News being watched by over 14 million people. Following the breakdown of her marriage she begins to see Eric Steenson and tells of some of the events she was invited to:
"I remember most when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman put in an appearance. They arrived by helicopter and instead of being driven from the field... someone had organised a 'bridge' across the small stream so they could walk...
Duration:01:12:38
Chapter Ten - Eric
6/14/2022
Jan Leeming continues reading her 2003 autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. Her professional life on a high, Jan publishes her beauty book 'Simply Looking Good', but separation from her husband leads to some ingenious ways to avoid the press. "We propped up a ladder and I went over the dividing fence into their garden. Then the neighbour drove out of his garage, with me lying low on the back seat.... and drove to a rendezvous point and transferred me to our car." A chance meeting with Eric...
Duration:00:56:17
Chapter Nine - Patrick and Jonathan
6/7/2022
Jan receives a call from Miss World and upsets Sacha Distel. A strange phone call puts plans on hold for a return to Australia and Jan gets married to Patrick Lunt. Then her popularity on BBC News forces her to make a serious career decision. "I was offered a year's contract to read news... If I accepted the year's contract then I had to give up my 'staff contract' status with radio. It was all heady stuff and there really was no choice. I went for the 'big time', accepting the insecurity of...
Duration:01:00:05
Chapter Eight - BBC Radio 2
5/31/2022
An unexpected phone call from BBC Radio 2 takes Jan Leeming to London. "I passed the audition with flying colours and was offered a one-year contract in London. I didn't mind working on radio rather than television at all and was absolutely delighted to have a job." She recounts the rise of the 'personality' DJ in the late seventies and how Noel Edmonds delighted in trying to make her 'corpse' on air.
With Radio 2 extending its schedule to 24hrs comes the opportunity to front three shows a...
Duration:00:32:55
Chapter Seven - HTV and Pebble Mill at One
5/24/2022
Jan Leeming continues her story. Settled in Bristol her TV series 'Women Only' goes from strength to strength, leading to a call from the BBC and a midweek move to Birmingham to present Pebble Mill.
"Marion and I took a brave pill and, feeling that there might be safety in numbers, the two of us had a meeting with Terry in which we pointed out the injustice of our salaries compared with those of the men, plus the fact that we had to run our homes and pay for accommodation in Birmingham. Mr...
Duration:00:51:25
Chapter Six - Bristol and Jeremy
5/18/2022
Jan Leeming's story returns to Bristol as she takes a job with HTV, presenting a 'new programme for women' - Women Only - to go out twice a week and the local evening news programme Report West.
"... in the 1970s, the jobs were all held by men. In fact, I think HTV was one of the first companies to have a female boom operator. She was a tiny dot of a girl called Patty, who had worked her way up from the HTV post room and was justifiably proud of making it into a job traditionally held by a...
Duration:00:42:15
Chapter Five - The West Country and John
5/10/2022
Jan Leeming continues the reading of her 2003 Autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. Sent out with a Uher (the old recording machines reporters used to record interviews) settles into life as a News Reporter at BBC Plymouth before an opportunity to host a new scientific programme for children - Tom Tom - arises.
"I remember the audition quite well. You were put on the spot by having to talk knowledgeably about a scientific object that had only been cursorily explained to you. Then there was one...
Duration:00:23:31
Chapter Four - Home Again
5/3/2022
Jan Leeming returns to the UK heartbroken. Devastated by her loss she travels back through Singapore, Kowloon and Hong Kong and sets about getting her Equity card - "In Australia I'd been assured that British Equity would honour my card but they didn't, so I had to set about getting one. It's a silly catch-22 situation. You couldn't get a card until you had a job and you couldn't have a job until you got a card." Turning down work at the Bunny Club, Park Lane and in a new series called...
Duration:00:42:56
Chapter Three - Australia, Hayo and Michael
4/26/2022
The summer of 1965 sees Jan Leeming 'chilling out in the sun on a beach with a bag of fruit and a good book' in Darling Point, Australia. She recounts the story of her romance with Hayo Niebor, a 'dark, handsome man with Lain matinee idol good looks' and theatre success in Sydney, Melbourne and Victoria. Friends from dress designer Carla Zampatti to actor Michael Laurence. Her life seemed settled, until a cruel twist of fate once again shaped her destiny.
"I am a fairly naive person in many...
Duration:00:23:06
Chapter Two - New Zealand and Owen
4/19/2022
Jan Leeming continues the reading of her autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. In this episode she recounts her first failed dinner party; the history behind her name; her diet beliefs and her early touring theatre career. She tells how in 1965 a chance audition led her to become the first woman newsreader in Australia and of her love of France, inspired by her great friend Owen Leeming. From Bangkok to New Zealand, Jan shares her thoughts and memories - and even the secret of her hair tone. "I...
Duration:00:49:30
Preface & Acknowledgements and Chapter One - 'Childhood and Marriage'
4/12/2022
"I was born in 1942 in the middle of the Second World War, and have hazy memories of doodlebugs, or V-1s ... to which we were highly susceptible, as we lived in Woolwich, south-east London. I remember the river used to stink of rotten eggs in hot weather." Television Legend Jan Leeming (BBC News, I'm A Celebrity, Real Marigold Hotel, Safari School, This Morning) reads her 2003 Autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. IN THIS EPISODE: Jan reveals her first starring role as King Canute; her time at...
Duration:01:10:15
COMING SOON - Jan Leeming's 'Addicted to Love', read by the author.
4/6/2022
Twice voted Newsreader of the Year by the Television and Radio Industries Club and Pye TV Personality of the Year, Jan Leeming has had a long and varied career in television although she began her working life as a secretary in the BBC followed by a period of professional theatre in Australia. Her sunny nature, coupled with a thoroughly professional manner, endeared her to millions of viewers. In 2003 she released her autobiography 'Addicted to Love'. Never before released as an audio book,...
Jan Leeming - Addicted to Love (Trailer)
4/6/2022
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