Andrew Gardner

Andrew Gardner (25 September 1932 – 2 April 1999) was an English newsreader on Independent Television News (ITN) in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1977. He was also one of the original presenters of the half hour News at Ten bulletin when it began in July 1967. Gardner read the news on the regional Thames At 6 (later Thames News) bulletin broadcast on the ITV London weekday franchise Thames Television from 1977 to his retirement in mid-1992.

Biography Gardner was born as one of three children of an Upper Wimpole Street dentist in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire on 25 September 1932. He was educated at the independent Dauntsey's School in West Lavington, Wiltshire, before serving as a corporal in the Royal Air Force's medical administration during his National Service.

Following an outbreak of the Asian flu epidemic, which reduced the number of available announcers and broadcasters to the Federal Broadcasting Corporation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Gardner was one of the first reporters of the massacres that took place during the Congo Crisis in 1960, Gardner enrolled in a one-month broadcasting course at the BBC and began working for the corporation as a broadcaster for its African services and radio shows like Ten O'Clock and Topic for Tonight. Gardner worked on the television programmes Roving Report and Dateline, Reporting '66 and Reporting '67. He was the presenter of the maiden transatlantic broadcast from the United States to Western Europe via the Telstar 1 satellite in 1962. This was partly due to his desire to be in the public eye less often,