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Judith Stamper (born 1952) is an English former television presenter.
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Early life
She was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland.
She attended Cockermouth Grammar School (now Cockermouth School). She graduated in English in 1975 from St David's University College, Lampeter (which subsequently became the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1996 and then the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David in 2010). She gained a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
Career
She worked in Carlisle (BBC Radio Cumbria) then Liverpool (BBC Radio Merseyside). She became a researcher and then worked on BBC2's The Money Programme.
Television
In the BBC Yorkshire region she was well known as the main presenter of Look North, notably with Harry Gration. She presented Look North from 1985 to 1995, joining in 1980. She covered, with Harry, the tempestuous UK miners' strike (1984–85). Her style of interviews has been described as cool severity.
Sophie Raworth took over her place at Look North (her first main television broadcasting position, and stayed for two years). Harry Gration had left in 1994, having started in 1982; Harry returned in 1999 to co-present with Clare Frisby.
Academic
Judith Stamper is Deputy Head of Department and Principal Teaching Fellow in International Journalism in the Institute of Communications and Media Studies at the University of Leeds.
Personal life
She was married in June 1987. Her husband is an architect. They have a daughter (born 1988).