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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> Notices, obituaries and tributes >> Gill Fowler http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1783606403 Message started by JakeF on Jul 9^th, 2026, 2:14pm

Title: Gill Fowler
Post by JakeF on Jul 9^th, 2026, 2:14pm

Jake Fowler writes:-
It is with great sadness that I post that my wife Gill Fowler died on June 25th in St Gemma's hospice in Leeds. Gill was a film editor at BBC Leeds from 1985 until 2003 working on BBC Look North in the old Woodhouse Lane studio. She also worked on Regional films produced in Leeds (now BBC Yorkshire), the so-called sub-opts when Bill Greaves was head of Region. She worked with Patrick Hargreaves and Roger Keech alongside colleagues such as Ted Croot, Mike Denby, Martin Harris and Steve Turner. Training originally as a Librarian at Leeds University, Gill always want to train as an editor and spent many years working on the news output also editing items for the BBC National news as well as Breakfast Time and Newsnight. It's where we met when I started as a Regional Journalist at Look North in 1987, she was the film editor on my first day when I was assigned the news NIB's for the middle of the programme which invariably got dropped when things overran! Thanks to many BBC colleagues who have sent cards and condolences.