Rediffusion

That's For Me, a short-lived pop programme on Rediffusion TV, brought Nightingale to a wider audience.

He also ran a TV production company, Associated Rediffusion Productions, which has been behind programmes like TV Offal and Keith Meets... with stand-up Keith Allen for Channel 4.

He burst upon British television like a fiery tribune of the people, conducting interviews live and with a studio audience—something never done before—five nights a week at primetime from a London broadcaster, Rediffusion.

After the Frost Report he moved back to Rediffusion where he fronted The Frost Programme, a series of in-depth interviews with leading figures from the worlds of politics and entertainment.

But her acting career never really took off and she turned to television presenting, working for Associated Rediffusion and on afternoon programmes for the BBC.