Peter Hobday presented the programme regularly until 1996 ; Sarah Montague replaced MacGregor in 2002. Justin Webb: Presenter 2009-present Carolyn Quinn was a regular presenter until 2008 as was Edward Stourton until 2009.

In 1971, the league had numerous peers and notables as high-profile members, including Viscount Massereene and Ferrard, Baron Mowbray and Stourton, and John Biggs-Davison, MP, who was also on the league's ' Council of Honour '.

* The estate was at one point garrisoned for the king, during the lifetime of the 11th Baron Stourton, who was a royalist.

For instance, when Georgiana Maxwell, the most recent female to hold the title, was Baroness, the Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Stourton was considered the Premier Baron.

Thereafter, it was united with the Barony of Stourton after it, and the barony of Segrave, were brought out of abeyance in the nineteenth century in favour of the twentieth Baron Stourton.

Baron Stourton is a title in the Peerage of England, It was created by writ in 1448 for John Stourton.

In 1878, the ancient barony of Mowbray was called out of abeyance in favour of the twentieth Baron Stourton.

This novel arrangement proved too much for the resident Anglican priest, Erasmus Stourton —" that knave Stourton ", as Baltimore referred to him — who, after altercations with Baltimore, was placed on a ship for England, where he lost no time in reporting Baltimore's practices to the authorities, complaining that the Catholic priests Smith and Hackett said mass every Sunday and " doe use all other ceremonies of the church of Rome in as ample a manner as tis used in Spayne ".

George Clinton was born in 1686, in Stourton Parva, in Lincolnshire.

John Stanley was the second son of Sir William de Stanley of Stourton and Alice Massey of Timperley, Cheshire and grandson of John de Stanley and Emma Lathom of Lathom, Lancashire.

The first " documented " resident Church of England cleric on Canadian soil was Erasmus Stourton, who arrived at the " Sea Forest Plantation " at Ferryland, Newfoundland in 1612 under the patronage of Lords Bacon and Baltimore.

Stourton was of the Puritan party and remained in Ferryland until returning to England in 1628.

This announcement was greeted with widespread public dismay not least because Stourton found out about it from a journalist rather than his employers.

She was an editor for BBC2 ( producing the Correspondent programme, in which Stourton featured, although he left the programme ) with whom he had lived from 2001.

Both families assumed the baronies of Mowbray and Segrave, but Henry Howard was summoned in his father's lifetime ( 1640 ) as Lord Mowbray, which was deemed a recognition of the Howards ' right ; their co-heirs, from 1777, were the Lords Stourton and the Lords Petre, and in 1878 Lord Stourton was summoned as Lord Mowbray and Segrave.

* Edward Stourton ( born 1957 ), journalist

His maternal grandparents were Sir George Darell or Darrell ( died c. 1474 ) and Margaret Stourton ( born c. 1433 ), a daughter of John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton and Margery or Marjory Wadham.

* Lady Joanna Lambart ( born 8 December 1929 ), ( HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother stood sponsor ) married in 1955 to Major Michael Godwin Plantagenet Stourton.

Edward John Ivo Stourton ( born 24 November 1957, Lagos, Nigeria ) is a BBC broadcaster and presenter of BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme, and a former presenter of the Today programme on the same network.

Stourton has four children: Ivo James Benedict ( born 1982 ), Thomas Edward Alexander ( born 1987 ) and Eleanor Mary Elizabeth ( born June 1984 ) and stepdaughter Rosy.

His second to Ursula Stourton produced six children, including his heir, Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, and Lady Frances Clinton ( Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, 1553-Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, 12 September 1623 ), wife of Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos, also sons Edward Clinton, and Thomas Clinton ( born 1548, married Mary Tyrell ).

The son of William Talbot of Lichfield, by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Stoughton of Whittington, Worcestershire, he was born at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, around 1659.

* 1957 – Edward Stourton, British radio presenter

He is the son of Nigel Stourton CBE, who worked for British American Tobacco, and Rosemary Abbott, being brought up near Patrick Brompton.

Image: StaffsWorcs Lake at Prestwood. jpg | Lake off the canal, near Prestwood, north of Stourton.

* Stourbridge Canal at Stourton Junction

* The Earl of Arundel, at the trial of Lord Stourton, 1557

Stourbridge Football Club and Stourbridge Cricket Club both share the War Memorial Athletic Ground in Amblecote, and Stourbridge Rugby Club play at Stourton Park in nearby Stourton and Redhill Volleyball Club play at Redhill School.

His mausoleum is at St Peter's Church, Stourton, Wiltshire.

Since leaving his presentation role on the Today programme, Stourton has joined the presenting teams of The World at One and The World This Weekend.

Here it joins the towpath of the Stourbridge Canal negotiating the four locks at Stourton to join the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal.

This had resulted in a cut back to the system that would have seen Line 1 only go from the city centre to the park and ride site at Stourton and this would have saved £ 250 million from the construction of the scheme and efforts were done to lower development costs along the other planned routes.

It then heads north into Staffordshire, passing between Kinver and Stourbridge and crossing the A458 at Stourton.

The " Stewponey " refers to an ancient inn ( now demolished and replaced by flats ) at Stourton in Kinver parish.

The Stour flows south to Stourton and then loops along the eastern edge of the large village of Kinver, whence it flows back into Worcestershire.

It then became " Stourton House "", and the Catholic peer added a chapel in Gothic style.

The closest Champion Section Brass Band is the Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band, formerly of the Yorkshire Imperial Copperworks based in Stourton, from which the band is named.

Other recusant families, or branches thereof, include ( d ) Ainscough, Anne ( of Frickley ), Arden ( of Longcroft ), Arundell, Bedingfeld, Berkeley ( of Spetchley ), Blount, Blundell, Clifford ( of Chudleigh ; since 1673 ), Coates, Constable, Constable-Maxwell, Errington, Eyre, Eyston, Fairfax ( of Gilling ), Feilding, Fenwick, Fermor ( of Tusmore ), Fitzherbert ( of Swynnerton ), Fitzherbert-Brockholes, Fortescue-Turville, Gerard ( of Bryn ), Gillibrand, Gillow, Glover, Hesketh, Holden, Holman, Hornyold, Huddleston, Jerningham, Kerr ( Scotland ), De Lisle / de Lisle, Mattingly, Mockler-Barrett, Payne, Petre, Perkins ( of Ufton Court ), Riddell, Scarisbrick, Scrope ( of Bolton ), Smythe, Stonor, Stourton, Talbot, Tempest ( of Broughton ), Throckmorton, Towneley, de Trafford, Tichbourne, Trappes-Lomax ( Trappes of Nidd ), Tresham ( of Northamptonshire ), Vavasour ( of Hazlewood ), Ward, Waterton ( of Walton ), Weld, and Weld-Blundell.

The confluence of Smestow and Stour is paralleled closely by the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire with the Stourbridge Canal, which descends through the Stour valley to Stourton.

Image: StaffsWorcs Sandstone banks. jpg | Steep cutting and workings in sandstone, north of Stourton.

Image: StaffsWorcs Stourton Junction. jpg | Stourton Junction: the Stourbridge Canal descends through locks to meet the Staffordshire and Worcestershire.

Image: StaffsWorcs Dunsley Tunnel. jpg | West portal of the 21 metre Dunsley Tunnel, between Stourton and Kinver.

This district included the areas of Rothwell, Methley, Oulton, Woodlesford, Stourton, Carlton, Robin Hood, Lofthouse, and Thorpe.

" In 1833, after the King's death, one of executors, Lord Stourton, asked her to sign a declaration he had written on the back of her marriage certificate.

' According to Stourton, she, smiling, objected, on the score of delicacy.

* In the novel, The Night Climbers, by Ivo Stourton, himself a graduate of the college, Stourton refers to Corpus Christi on several occasions.

A number of towns and villages in Dorset are named after the river, including East Stour, West Stour, Stourpaine, Stourton Caundle, Stour Row, Stour Provost, Sturminster Newton, and Sturminster Marshall.

The estate includes a Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, gardens, farmland, and woodland.

The Stourton family, the Barons of Stourton, had lived in the Stourhead estate for 500 years until they sold it to Sir Thomas Meres in 1714.