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
BBC Sussex Brighton’s Rabbi Fabricant, was involved as a young freelance before university at Loughborough and Sussex. He is now Conservative MP for Lichfield. Stuart Hobday – went on to be a Radio 2 producer for Terry Wogan, Jimmy Young, David Hamilton before moving to Bristol as senior music producer for the South-West and then Birmingham, with responsibilities including country music. Bob Simpson – news reporter who would later become a foreign correspondent for BBC News. He was one of two BBC journalists who defied the Corporation's wishes and stayed to broadcast from Baghdad during the Gulf war. Later presenters included the