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'''Janet Trewin''' was a British television and radio presenter, and occasionally motoring journalist who primarily worked for the [[BBC]] and who helped to present for the original incarnation of ''[[Top Gear (1977 TV series)|Top Gear]]'' between 1991 and 1994, making nine<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1696832/ IMDb - Janet Trewin.]</ref> total appearances. Though never a particularly integral member of the presenting team, she was nonetheless deemed significant enough to appear in various pieces of promotional material for ''Top Gear'' throughout the 1990s, including the programme's 1993 ''Radio Times'' cover appearance.

==Early life==
Born in March 1957<ref>[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/9A5MDyqt76OgGcU0-4mF-8AT7Jg/appointments GOV.UK - Janet Trewin personal appointments.]</ref>, Janet Trewin attended<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/janet-trewin-a969861/ LinkedIn - Janet Trewin.]</ref> Red Maids School in Bristol from 1968 until 1975, before studying law at Bristol Polytechnic Law School, graduating in 1978. She would join the BBC and make her first appearances a year later, helping to present Woman's Hour<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/eceefcc2693a482eb2fd77997de88176 BBC Genome - ''Woman's Hour''. (27th July, 1979)]</ref> alongside Jenni Murray, and eventually becoming Radio 1's first ever female newsreader on its programme ''Newsbeat'' from 1981<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d119c49edeaa4cf780a936d05d0404a4 BBC Genome - ''Steve Wright''. (20th April, 1981)]</ref> through to September<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d553c8aa6f81439fb1aab95b71a87489 BBC Genome - ''Newsbeat''. (19th September, 1986)]</ref> 1986, during which time she would present over 200 installments. She would then make the transition to television by helping to present ''Newsnight''<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/50dcb516c64449358145fd3f5454e515 BBC Genome - ''Newsnight''. (15th June, 1988)]</ref> between June 1988 and May 1990.

==Career in automotive journalism==
In January 1991, Trewin would return<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/17642310d3ca459a938f6f030d3b376b BBC Genome - ''Going Places''. (18th January, 1991)]</ref> to the radio by presenting ''Going Places'', a transport-themed radio show on BBC Radio 4 which focused on innovations and issues faced within the automotive and transport industries. Whilst presenting ''Going Places'', she would be occasionally accompanied<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/754e9be5928f4b39aa2a74c2a93c5b98 BBC Genome - ''Going Places''. (29th March, 1991)]</ref> by ''Top Gear'' veteran [[Chris Goffey]], who likely aided in her inclusion to ''Top Gear'' later that year. Beginning from September 1993, she would be permanently joined by former ''Top Gear'' presenter [[Peter Macann]], and together the pair would present 42 further installments of the programme until its cancellation<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/4d41b70c67d140f891718c73a21c459f BBC Genome - ''Going Places''. (1st July, 1994)]</ref> in July 1994.

===On ''Top Gear''===
Janet Trewin would make her ''Top Gear'' debut for Halloween 1991, appearing in the [[Top Gear (1977 TV series)/Series 26/Episode 7|seventh episode]] of the programme's [[Top Gear (1977 TV series)/Series 26|26th series]] to present a segment on female drivers feeling more at risk, primarily whilst stranded<ref>BBC Infax database.</ref> at motorways or at car parks. She was likely brought onboard the programme due to the simultaneous departures of [[Sue Baker]] and [[Beki Adam]], the former due to presenting similar subject matter and the latter due to being a relatively young female host who had since grown disillusioned with the programme. Later that same series, Trewin would also present films on benzene gas in the atmosphere and the problem of youth joyriding, suggesting banger racing as a crime-free alternative. In 1992, she would be one of the ''Top Gear'' presenters participating<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/afc881b8dc7d4b9b871807d7f1c2759c BBC Genome - ''Top Gear''. (19th March, 1992)]</ref> in a game of [[Motaball]], a type of automotive football played with modified hovercraft. During her final year on the programme, she would present films on driver fatigue and motion sickness before stepping down from the programme altogether in 1994. Her role on the show would be replaced by [[Andy Wilman]] and [[Michele Newman]], the pair presenting segments on similar topics.

====Fluorolastomec controversy====
In [[Top Gear (1977 TV series)/Series 27/Episode 2|Series 27, Episode 2]] of ''Top Gear'', which aired on the 5th March, 1992, ''Top Gear'' would present a segment based on the alleged dangers of 'Fluorolastomec', otherwise known as Veton<ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/misc.emerg-services/c/Js67KNPcg2o Usenet discussion from 1994 - FLUOROLASTOMEC or VETON.]</ref> (occasionally spelt Viton), a chemical compound supposedly formed by burnt plastic and rubber components in motor vehicles as a result of automotive fires, and upon contact with skin, even through protective clothing, would cause an irreversible degenerative reaction that would eat away at a victim's skin until amputation was needed or succumbed to their injuries. This was summarily debunked<ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-05-30-9202180254-story.html Mateja, J. (1992) 'WARNING: THIS WARNING MAY, OR MAY NOT, SAVE YOUR SKIN.', ''Chicago Tribune'', 29th May.]</ref> two months after the programme's broadcast by the ''Chicago Tribune'', but the rumour persisted throughout the first half of the 1990s.

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