Kay Crewdson, the former BBC North West Tonight weather presenter, continued her broadcasting work with a new CRADLE podcast episode published on 10 November 2026. The release provides a dated answer for viewers wondering where she has gone since her regular weather-presenting role ended in late 2025.
Crewdson is a British broadcaster whose career includes regional television, BBC Radio York and the documentary The Emptiness Within. Her North West Tonight departure ended one presenting appointment; it did not mark her retirement from broadcasting.
Her work since that departure is best understood through the distinction between a regular television role and the wider presenting, speaking and charity activities that sit alongside it.
The North West Tonight departure
Crewdson’s professional biography at Chartwell Speakers dates her North West Tonight weather tenure to 2019–2025. The agency also represents her as a speaker and event host, reflecting a professional identity broader than weather presenting alone.
In her public farewell statement, Crewdson linked the close of 2025 with the end of delivering the programme’s weather. She connected that farewell to 25 in 25, her series about people and communities across North West England.
The statement establishes which role was ending. It does not explain every aspect of her employment arrangements or establish a private reason for the change.
That distinction is important for anyone encountering an older professional listing. A description of Crewdson as a BBC weather presenter may accurately identify the work through which a viewer knows her, while no longer describing a continuing North West Tonight appointment.
A career spanning production, weather and radio
Crewdson had worked across several broadcasting formats before joining North West Tonight. Queen Margaret University’s April 2017 alumni magazine records that she graduated in 2005 with a first-class BA (Hons) in Arts and Theatre Studies.
The university describes her progression through television running, radio volunteering, the BBC Journalism Trainee Scheme and production work, followed by retraining as a broadcast meteorologist. Her presenting career therefore developed alongside experience of how programmes are made.
Radio was already part of that career before her weekday breakfast appointment. The university dates her Radio York programme Finders Keepers to 2014.
On 18 January 2017, YorkMix announced that Crewdson would take over BBC Radio York’s breakfast programme from presenter Georgey Spanswick. Her scheduled start was 6 February 2017.
The appointment brought her back to a station where she had previously presented, rather than introducing her to radio for the first time. It also placed her in a different role from the television weather work with which some listeners already associated her.
On 5 February 2018, Prolific North reported that she had left Radio York shortly before Christmas 2017.
That earlier departure should not be confused with her late-2025 North West Tonight farewell. They concern different appointments, separated by years of further broadcasting work. Treating either as a single, permanent departure from the whole BBC would flatten that chronology.
Documentary work beyond the forecast
Crewdson’s association with The Emptiness Within, a documentary about miscarriage, provides another example of her work outside weather presenting.
The New York Festivals programme record credits Crewdson as presenter and researcher. It identifies Steve Bailey as producer, writer and editor.
Those credits distinguish the collaborators’ responsibilities. Crewdson’s contribution included research as well as the presenting role heard by the audience, while Bailey held the listed production, writing and editing responsibilities.
The documentary also helps place her later podcast work in context. Longer-form audio was already part of her professional record before the North West Tonight role ended. The move away from regular weather forecasts did not require her to begin an entirely new kind of broadcasting career.
CRADLE provides a continuing presenting platform
Crewdson’s connection with CRADLE includes presenting the charity’s podcast about pregnancy loss and pregnancy choices. Louise Zeniou is the charity’s founder; Crewdson should not be described as having founded it.
For the question of what Crewdson is doing now, the episode published on 10 November 2026 is more useful than an undated list of professional interests. It establishes that her presenting work continued after the television farewell.
The distinction between the formats is straightforward. North West Tonight was a regular regional television appointment; the CRADLE podcast is a separate audio project associated with a charity. One can end while the other continues.
Her broader professional profile also includes speaking and charity communications. Those activities help explain why absence from a familiar television slot should not be mistaken for absence from public work.
The Bottom Line
As of 11 November 2026, Crewdson’s documented continuing work includes CRADLE podcast presenting following the end of her North West Tonight weather role in 2025. For viewers looking to hear her latest published work, the charity’s 10 November episode is a direct starting point, rather than an older television-directory entry.
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