Helen Rollason "Helen Rollason: The Bravest Fight", a 30-minute documentary presented by Peter Sissons in which friends and colleagues paid tribute to her. Her autobiography, "Life's Too Short", was published posthumously in 2000. As the first female presenter of "Grandstand", Helen Rollason was a pioneer of British sports broadcasting, an industry that was predominantly male at the time, and she established a precedent that allowed others to follow. Sue Barker, Hazel Irvine, Gail McKenna, Shelley Webb and Gabby Logan all followed in Rollason's footsteps to become noted UK sports presenters, with Logan joining ITV as their first female sports presenter in the
Geoffrey Smith (radio presenter) the presenter of "JRR". A new series hosted by Smith, "Geoffrey Smith's Jazz", began hours after Shipton's first "JRR". Geoffrey Smith (radio presenter) Geoffrey Smith (born 1943, Michigan) is a British-based American radio presenter, author and former jazz percussionist. Smith was the regular presenter of BBC Radio 3's "Jazz Record Requests" for over twenty years and has also presented other programmes on the network. Smith's father was a pianist who also played banjo in his local dance-band in Detroit. Smith's own active jazz career ended in 1969, discouraged by the rise of rock music. In 1973 he came to Britain