Evening Telegraph from Derby, Derbyshire, England • 14

IT'S every newsreader's nightmare introducing a film report only to find that the expected item is not going to appear while millions are watching every move with mounting amusement. "With the camera lingering relentlessly on you," says Martyn Lewis, "five seconds equals a lifetime." Lewis should know. After nearly 20 years at the front line of television news, the anchorman of BBC l's new-look One O'Clock News knows not to take anything for granted. The crisis give-away, he says, is the "hangstare" expression, the look that creeps remorselessly on to a newsreader's face when "things go wrong." Perpetual nightmare The perpetual nightmare is that of every video tape in the building breaking down. leaving you with no boa-up," says the former ITN newscaster who launches the new weekday bulletin on Monday.

"I've often thought about what I'd do if that happened. I think I'd simply have to explain to the audience what's happened and ask the director to bring the cameras round to show the viewers the technical box of tricks that sits behind the desk. "That would probably get a record audience because there's nothing viewers find more fascinating than a mistake," Lewis once almost became television's first OE mews i shwas a mew of dig la the beat wed frionMest orap mails all dot sarefally lifemestisis: vanishing newsreader. "There was the time when News at Ten ended a minute early," he recalls. "I looked round for some spare scripts to read as a time-filler but they all on the floor.

"1 thought: 'Now do I bend down and disappear from the screen and pick them up or do I just sit it "The hang-stare look was starting to come on when I managed to retrieve a few scripts I'd overlooked on the desk. But it was a near missl" Martyn Lewis recalls such incidents with the cheerful enthusiasm of a man who quite simply loves his job. It's an enthusiasm which becomes positively turbo-charged when the 41-year-old ibumalist talks about the new One O'Clock News. "We will be setting the agenda for the day," coverage, currently under the political spotlight, he says: All I see in the BBC newsroom are slulled, professional journalists who want to tell the news as fairly and as objectively as they can." Professional pride clearly means a lot to this "Welsh Ulsterman" (born in Swansea but the family moved to Northern Ireland when he was nine) who eg an his career with BBC Belfast and, later Wales in the late sixties. Bubbly person His move to the BBC after 16 years with ITN coincides with that of his former newscasting colleague Pamela Armstrong.

who will be presenting her own topical magazine show in the new daytime service. Martyn Lewis is married to TV writer and presenter Liz Carse daughter of Duncan Canoe, the man who was behind radio's Dick Barton and. coincidentally, one of the BBCs first-ever 'TV newsreaders. UtnialT CVWeigel, e.a.c.awgg ev I FILM GUIDE: Try an 514 MC 2, 3111: Acclaimed 1963 masterpiece by Fellini about esnlireed film letting his imagination wander into a flurry of daseufantesies. Stars Mastrolannt wry, 180: Former policemen James Stewart refuses to believe the girlderound he loves Is really dead In this famous 1968 thriller set 1- against the Wi of Jimmy's terror of The While breb MSC 11.881: Early from 1951, about 4.74 a you couple on honeymoon In Rome.

Stars Brunelle Bow. The and Ms OM 4, 12.39ern): horror tat from 1941 about brain traimilenb, which stare Paul Lukas Berlin Tunnel 21 SS 2, 1.11ern): Richard (The Wakens) Thomas and i 't Horst (The Magnificent Seven) Bucholz star in a 1981 drama about life by The Berlin Wall. SUNDAY Why Did You Phi On hie (Tn. 9211 am): Italian actor Bud Spencer lEI stars in the sequel to last wellies The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid in this 1980 saga of extra-terrestials and robots. net Certain Age IC4, 230): Deanne Durbin (now living her retirement in France) was a young girl In this 1938 slice of nonsense about you a kide trylnk: ty stir rie a play.

warring in Spain. Stars Charlton Heston and Sonlil4 LOW. gore In this 1981 ooatuma drama about 0 writer but Paul Muni title performance is overs a owe by 4 1 4 4 It IA A Austrian-born actor Joseph Schildkraut. IF lJe of fswrffe Zols (CA. 10.16): Famous 1937 study of the French 111 -r, tIA MONDAY Nt Land of the Pharaohs ((TV.

1.301: Early Joan Collins circa 1966 sof wiP tc enlivens this Biblical sags about life in old Egypt Stars Jacks Hawkins. Charlie Chen in Honolulu (BBC 2,11.01: Sidney Toler replaced the late 1 Wagner Oland as Chan, this time solving a murder in the Hawaiian port. '7 i Made In 1906. The inertly Way (WIC 1, 111.101: Hayley Mills and Hywell Bennett 1 I Ic star in this drama of marital probiems. Made in 1913 e.

i i I i TUESDAY On the Town MSC 1, LW: Famous 1949 musical of three sailors on leave in New York. Stars Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly and :1 i Set 40 vi ri noteworthy because of its location footage in the Big Amis. The Navigator IC4, 2-30 1 Buster Keaton silent from 1924. Th INC 2, 9.01: Janes Ivory screen version of the Henry James book about Europeans living in old Boston. Stars Lae 1 the Waves Remick Made in 1979.

Consenting Adult (C 4, 9.0): Martin Sheen plays a penult who learns that his 8011 is homosexual in a topical 1985 TV movie. 1 1 1 i Ji I Freddie Old Hors Comes the Okla (CoIC4, 2.351: Bob Hope stars as a music hell 7 431 4 9. 1 1111 1 1 0111.1.0 performer under threat from a killer In this comedy from 1963. a beisdosidos Return of the Bad Men 11119 2, ILO): Robert Ryan plays the 11.111111 04. 1111111.148..

Sundance Kid in this 1948 The Brothers Karemazov 4, 9.0): Vul Brynner is mixed up in ii bristlmillis deldpeirksisol AM. murder in old Russia in this 1958 potboiler that features the young ems es limdspeadost William (Star Trek) Shatner. -'m 1135148311111 aid MGM as aims mile sit do The Silent Witness 11.40): Ivan Craig stars in a Scotland Yard 11 111111111111111118. Investigates murder mystery from 1964. Vlsways as rieepture THURSDAY i Wassails Iltiolliss asseirt list twilstibli The Bushy Plunpeenel (SSC 1, 2.0): David Niven plays the famous the mist aselitliss tr euesettilw ant lOW hero of the French Revolution in this 1950 drams.

1 0 1 4gill) Ag Jassy (Co.IC. 2.301: Margaret Lockwood stars in this 1947 melodrama i od ilie Moises al lisiepaillist of a young girl making her way through nineteenth century England. ISdIO. Th Orest Moment IC4, 5.0): Joel McCrea is a doctor discovering so ii, i loot anaesthesia. i Linda IT 4 731111 1 1 41 3 11 0r.

is the victim of a murderous frame-up 4 IrPt Ws it: roa kkom i bY Tunes el Okay (Co 5.31): Brilliant study of how a new officer struggles to overcome the will of the man he must succeed. Made in 5 I lessissimeassit 4, "Metalnlhalhe 199 D. Stars John Mills and Alec Gunness. The Abominable Or Phases STY, 113): Vincent Price hams it up At( et illeelia. while avenging himself on the doctors responsible for the death of his 11.

al a se wife. Made in 1971. ii 0 DAY 52- sesso 4 Yeu're Only bake (ITV, 1.30): A 1962 comedy about fun and i 111111 gamea lassie at Duncan Macdonald -rouraerv eilimMeis Is enter 11 1. Carey shwa in this 1908 hokum with Lassie woriting for the Forestry VIIIII WE Ilist Mk lissimant li sails Ilmis Ilia be SWIFIMNIONS seem In The Clink (Co. 11.15): This week's Special Discretion sticker bearer is about Ills at an Australian VD dinic.

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After nearly 20 years at Interviews conducted by Lewis with the front line of television news, the anchor- experts politicians and newsmakers will be a man of BBC I's new-look One O'Clock News regular feature of the new bulletin so, in his knows not to take anything for granted. vanishing newsreader. "There was the time words, "the programme will be making the coverage, currently under the political The crisis give-away, he says, is the "hang- spotlight he says: "All I see in the BBC when News at Ten ended a minute early," he v. ell as reP 4 lll in. it" stare" expression, the look that creeps The days when newsreaders used to turn up newsroom are skill.d.

professionaltxlmalists re remorselessly on to a newsreader's face when recalls- things go wrong." "I looked round for some spare scripts to 20 minutes before a bulletin to cast an eye who want to tell the news as fairly and as read as a time-filler but they were all on the over the scripts are long gone. objectively as they can." Today, they are "news presenters," actively Professional pride ctoetty, moans a lot to this Ulsterman born in Swansea but the nightmare floor. involved in editorial conferences, writina "1 thought: 'Now do I bend down and scripts and having a say in the shape of i family moved to Northern Ireland when he The perpetual nightmare is that of every disappear from the screen and pick them up or video tape in the building king down, bulletin. was nine) who ban his career with BBC leaving you with no back-up," says the former do I just sit it Belfast and, later HW Wales in the late sixties. The hang-stare look was starting to come Says Lewis: "I'm the presenter of a ITN newscaster who launches the new programme which is the result of a terrific on when I managed to retrieve a few scripts I'd Bubbly person weekday bulletin on Monday.

team effort highly talented and "I've often thought about what I'd do if that overlooked on the desk. But it was a near e. His move to the BBC after 16 years with ITN missl" happened. I think I'd simply have to explain to "The newsreade is a member of that coincides with that of his former newscasting the audience what's happened and ask the Martyn Lewis recalls such incidents with thecolleague Pamela Armstrong who will be creative team who happens to put in an extra cheerful enthusiasm of a man who quiteng her own topical magazine wine show in ci: director to bring the cameras round to show half hour's work in front of a camera. oyes is simply I If job.

the new daytime service. the viewers the technical box of tricks that sits behind the desk. It's an enthusiasm which becomes positively turbo charged when the 41-year-old Delivering the news is simply a matter of Martyn Lewis is married to TV writer and communicating in the best and friendliest way That would probably get a record audience possible all that carefully condensed presenter Liz Corse daughter of Duncan toumalist talks about the new One O'Clocic Carse, the man who was behind radio's Click because there's nothing viewers find more information." ews. fascinating than a and, coincidentally, one of the BBC's On the question of alleged bias in news Lewis once almost became television's first We will be setting the agenda for the ay, first-ever TV newsreaders. 4 1r r4ln perpetual ightmere MN of gm, 0 4 016 pike kipe tki yes orklb me ktelbee by Huw Rossiter he explains.

"What we are not going to do is pontificate to people. "But we are goinq to make it an exciting, vibrant, up-to-the-minute news programme that people are going to watch because they know they'll be getting tight, crisply written and edited news reports that bring them up to date with what's happening in the world. "On top of that, they will be getting interviews that ask the right questions of the people who really matter in the news today." Interviews conducted by Lewis with experts, politicians and newsmakers will be a regular feature of the new bulletin so, in his words, "the programme will be making the news as well as reporting it." The days when newsreaders used to turn up 20 minutes before a bulletin to cast an eye over the scripts are long gone. Today, they are "news presenters," actively involved in editorial conferences, writing scripts and having a say in the shape of a bulletin. Says Lewis: "I'm the presenter of a programme which is the result of a terrific team effort by highly talented and experienced people.

'The newsreader is a member of that creative team who happens to put in an extra NM hour's work in front of a camera. "Delivering the news is simply a matter of communicating in the best and friendliest way possible all that carefully condensed information." On the question of alleged bias in news THE ONE O'CLOCK MAN gl4o.