Radio and television announcers

Alan Dedicoat (born 1954) is a senior British continuity announcer for BBC television who has also been a newsreader on BBC Radio 2. He is perhaps best known as the "voice of the balls" on the National Lottery programme, since 1994. He is also a regular on Radio 2's breakfast programme, Wake Up to Wogan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Dedicoat"

An announcer is a voice actor who works in television, radio and film, usually providing narrations, news updates, station identification, or an introduction of a product in television commercials or a guest on a talk show. ...more on Wikipedia about "Announcer"

Brian Perkins is a senior newsreader on BBC Radio 4. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brian Perkins"

Charlotte Green is a British radio announcer and news reader for the BBC's Radio 4. The main programmes that she is involved in are the Today programme, PM, and the Shipping Forecast. She regularly reads the amusing newspaper cuttings on The News Quiz, and her voice is regularly imitated by Jan Ravens on the radio version of the BBC comedy sketch show Dead Ringers, enunciating phrases, laced with double entendres, that one wouldn't expect of the real Charlotte, often in the style of the Shipping Forecast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charlotte Green"

Christopher Robbie is a British actor, television announcer, theatre director and designer, playwright and photographer. He trained as an actor at RADA in London, and has had a distinguished theatrical career, playing the title role in King Lear when a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also performed a one-man play about the life of Charles Darwin. Under the pseudonym James Alan he wrote the play The Sirens of Eroc. As a television actor he has appeared in the Doctor Who stories The Mind Robber and Revenge of the Cybermen, as well as in The Avengers, UFO, Dempsey and Makepeace and One Foot in the Grave, among much else. As a photographer he has held exhibitions of his work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christopher Robbie"

Clive Malcolm Griffiths is the Senior Lecturer in Italian and University Adviser on Student Affairs at the Manchester University. He worked for several Italian TV and radio stations, including Videomusic, Radio Deejay and Radio Capital. Currently he broadcasts from Radio Monte Carlo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clive Malcolm Griffiths"

A continuity announcer is a broadcaster whose voice (and, in some cases, face) appears between radio or television programmes. Continuity announcers tell you which channel you are watching now (or which station you are tuned to), what you are about to see, and what you could be watching if you changed to a different channel, thus: ...more on Wikipedia about "Continuity announcer"

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David Allan (born 1940) is a British television announcer and radio presenter. He began broadcasting on offshore radio in the 1960s, before joining BBC Radio 2 to present country music programmes throughout the late 1960s, 1970s and part of the 1980s. From 1969 to 1994 he also worked as a continuity announcer on BBC Television, generally heard more frequently on BBC2 than on BBC1. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Allan (broadcaster)"

David Miles is a continuity announcer and newsreader on BBC Radio 4. Born in 1954, he joined the BBC in 1975 as a studio manager. Initially working at Bush House, he soon transferred to Broadcasting House. Between 1981 and 1987 he worked as a BBC Television announcer, followed by a spell on Channel 4 before returning to BBC TV in 1988. He returned for a short spell on Channel 4 in 1995, before rejoining Radio 4, although in recent years he has also announced for the British version of the History Channel. He enjoys fell walking in the Lake District and sailing, and is characterised by his mature, husky voice, warm, clear and uniquely modulated, with precise pronunciation. At present, he reads the news only in the evening slot. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Miles (Radio)"

Graham Roberts ( October 10, 1929– October 28, 2004) was an English actor most famous for his work on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, including 31 years playing George Barford, the gamekeeper in Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Graham Roberts"

John Benson ( 1928- 1995) was a legendary British television announcer, best known for saying "And now... from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week" at the start of each edition of the UK's long running Sale of the Century, which ran on ITV from 1971 to 1983. Although he spent most of his career working as an announcer for Anglia Television he was also at one time the chief "staff" announcer for ABC television. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Benson"

John Crosse was an announcer for Yorkshire Television for many years until about 1997 or 1998. He was noted for his authoritative Received Pronunciation accent, shared by a number of his colleagues at YTV, such as Redvers Kyle; the company's presentation was much more similar to BBC Television (out-of-vision announcers with RP accents) than that of other ITV companies at the same time, which tended to use friendlier in-vision announcers. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Crosse"

Jon Briggs’ work spans Radio, TV, Voice-Over, Training and Conferences. He started in radio in 1981 as tea boy made good and progressed to the breakfast show with BBC Radio Oxford aged 19, which did little for his sleep pattern – but saved the rest of the staff from his brewing skills. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jon Briggs"

Mike Prince (born 1944) is a former continuity announcer for ATV and Central Television in the United Kingdom. He joined ATV in the Midlands around 1966 and stayed with Central until the 1990s, also announcing at times for HTV Wales, HTV West, Thames Television and Southern Television. He was particularly noted for his smooth, unflappable onscreen presence, and was heard throughout the ITV network voicing trailers for ATV and Central programmes. He is now a television producer and businessman, producing children's programmes with Winchester Entertainment PLC and founding the licensing company Shangers Ltd. In 2005 he returned to Central News to promote ITV's 50th anniversary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mike Prince"

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Muriel Young is a legend in British television. Starting as an actress, she co-starred with Rex Harrison in "The Constant Husband" and was also in "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan". She carved a career for herself as an attractive and talented leading lady.
In 1955, as the first ITV company Associated-Rediffusion was gearing up to launch, she intended to attend an actors' audition at the company, but mistakenly went to an announcers' audition instead. This was to take her career in a new direction; she was instantly hired and announced for A-R on September 22, 1955, the opening night of commercial television in the UK. She worked as a presenter and interviewer for regional programmes on Granada Television and Southern Television, and as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg, but was probably most famous for her work as a presenter of children's programmes for Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London between 1959 and 1968, working alongside Wally Whyton and Bert Weedon, and featuring the puppet characters Pussy Cat Willum, Ollie Beak and Fred Barker. The popular format they created lasted for many years, under various titles: Lucky Dip, Tuesday Rendezvous, Five O'Clock Club, Ollie and Fred's Five O'Clock Club and Five O'Clock Funfair. ...more on Wikipedia about "Muriel Young"

Patrick Muirhead is a former newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4. He left in September 2004 to join Channel Television as the local news programme presenter but walked out after just two months. After a spell earning his living as a painter/decorator and writing humorous articles for The Times, he now owns a gentlemen's outfitters shop, "Patrick Muirhead, England", in Midhurst, West Sussex, selling top-end English clothing, gifts and grooming products. ...more on Wikipedia about "Patrick Muirhead"

Peter Bolgar is a British television and radio announcer, married since 1962 to Archers actress Angela Piper. He announced for BBC Television from 1967 to 1995, and then moved to the BBC World Service. He speaks with a distinctive, slow-paced Received Pronunciation accent which is increasingly rare in modern broadcasting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peter Bolgar"

Peter Donaldson is a main newsreader on BBC Radio 4. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peter Donaldson"

Peter Jefferson is a BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer. He joined the BBC as a Studio Manager in 1968. In May 2005 he stood in as a newsreader due to strike action by other staff. He is often dubbed "Voice of the Shipping Forecast". ...more on Wikipedia about "Peter Jefferson (Radio)"

Peter Marshall is a broadcaster, born in Northern Ireland where he started his career at Ulster Television before moving to Anglia Television. He became well-known as an in-vision announcer for Thames Television, also announcing for ATV, Southern Television and HTV West and presenting a weekend show on BBC Radio 2. He remained a Thames announcer until the company ceased broadcasting as an ITV contractor, announcing on its final day ( December 31, 1992) although by the end he was not seen in vision. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peter Marshall (UK broadcaster)"

Philip Elsmore (born June 12, 1937 in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire) is most famous as a continuity announcer on Thames Television between 1968 and the franchise's demise in 1992, having made both the first and last continuity announcements for the company. He previously announced on ABC UK, which was the main influence on what became Thames, and he announced for Southern Television at weekends while Thames was off air. Since 1992 he has concentrated on reviving his original career as an actor, although he announced on Westcountry Television for a time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Philip Elsmore"

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Redvers Kyle (born either 1928 or 1929 in South Africa) was a legendary announcer with ITV in the United Kingdom. ...more on Wikipedia about "Redvers Kyle"

Sue Robbie was a TV Continuity announcer for Granada Television in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She then went onto present various shows for the ITV network, including Connections, Hold Tight & TX alongside Tony Slattery. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sue Robbie"

Susan Rae is a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4. She began work in a local newspaper in Dundee, before taking up work on BBC Radio Aberdeen. After three years there she left to work in London around 1983 as an announcer and newsreader on BBC Radio 4, where her Scottish accent proved controversial and she received hate mail. Later in the decade she moved to daytime television co-presenting Open Air and continuing with voiceover work when it ended. ...more on Wikipedia about "Susan Rae"

Tom Edwards is a British radio presenter and television announcer. He worked for Radio City and Radio Caroline in the 1960s, and later for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, presenting the Saturday morning early show on the latter station for some years in the 1970s and early 1980s. He is probably best remembered as an in-vision announcer for Thames Television in the 1970s and 1980s, also working for ATV and HTV West. He now lives in Lincolnshire and has appeared occasionally on Saga 106.6 FM. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tom Edwards" It must be http://www.shortopedia.com.

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