Children in Need 2009 Children in Need 2009 Children in Need 2009 was a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for Children in Need. It culminated in a live broadcast on BBC One which began on the evening of Friday 20 November and ran through to the morning of Saturday 21 November. The broadcast was hosted by Terry Wogan, Tess Daly and Alesha Dixon. Alan Dedicoat read out the running totals and Peter André reported from the BT Tower. The show was broadcast from BBC Television Centre in London. Dancing Pudseys were projected on to the building. The 2009 event raised
Sara Mendes da Costa announced as the winner on BBC One's "Children in Need" telethon on 17 November 2006. She was the unanimous choice of a voting panel that included the clock's previous voice, Brian Cobby, the BBC presenters Natasha Kaplinsky and Alan Dedicoat, and Sir Christopher Bland, chairman of BT Group, the clock's providers. As the host of "Children in Need", Terry Wogan launched her voice on BBC Radio 2. She appeared as a "stranger" on the first UK episode of the game show "Identity" (broadcast on 27 August 2007), with the identity "Speaking Clock", and was successfully identified by that day's contestant.