Bob Langley (born 28 August 1939) is a former British television presenter, best known for being a presenter of the

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afternoon chat show ''

Pebble Mill at One ''Pebble Mill at One'' is a British television magazine programme that was broadcast live on weekdays at one o'clock on BBC1, from 2 October 1972 to 23 May 1986, and again from 14 October 1991 to 29 March 1996. It was transmitted from the Peb ...

''. Langley also presented its late night version ''Saturday Night at The Mill''. Langley is also a novelist. Prior to his broadcasting career, Langley had a job in a Newcastle insurance office, served in the

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, then travelled through America.From the flyleaf of Lobo - A Vagabond in America by Bob Langley () published 1977 He began his broadcast career in the early days of Tyne Tees television on the nightly news programme. "The early days could be a bit catastrophic, a real string and sealing wax job," he said. "There weren't too many of us who really knew what we were doing. We didn't even have an autocue, and when we had it was like a giant toilet roll, but we had an awful lot of fun." Throughout 1968 he was a newsreader on BBC television news, and from 1970 he was a reporter on '' Nationwide''. It was as a result of his and fellow presenter

Donny MacLeod Donald B. MacLeod (1 July 1932 – 6 September 1984), popularly known as Donny MacLeod and Donny Bee, was a Scottish TV presenter . MacLeod is best known for appearing on the BBC 1 afternoon show '' Pebble Mill at One''. Early life and career ...

's success on the latter show that they were assigned to launch ''Pebble Mill'' in 1972. Bob Langley also wrote several novels, including ''The War of the Running Fox'' (1978). and a number of non-fiction works including a study of the sinking of the Argentinian light cruiser ''General Belgrano'' and a coast-to-coast guide, "Walking the Scottish Border".

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