List of Former BBC Newsreaders and Journalists - A

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• Kate Adie - Chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world
• Robin Aitken - BBC journalist since 1978. Left in 2005, ending his career on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme. Aitken published Can We Trust the BBC? (Continuum Press) in February 2007, which asserted the BBC was guilty of an "unconscious, institutionalised Leftism"
• Michael Aspel - one of the early BBC Television News newsreaders, together with Robert Dougall, Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall. He has since hosted This is Your Life and Antiques Roadshow