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BBC One South

Parker, Bruce

20th April 2022 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Bruce was brought up in Guernsey. He was educated at Elizabeth College, followed by the University of Wales. He has a postgraduate degree from Reading University.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC South

Haycocks, Paddy

9th April 2022 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Paddy was born in Portsmouth. He worked at BFBS radio (British Forces Broadcasting Service) in Cyprus (1966 – 1968). He performed various roles including tape editing, reporting, presenting and studio management (1966 – 1968).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC South, Presenters: Channel 4, Presenters: ITV Network

Best, Keith

13th July 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Keith joined the Met Office in 1947, initially working at RAF stations around Britain. From 1964 until 1968, he was based at the London Weather Centre, except for the first half of 1966 when he was consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva. Later (mid-1968 – mid-1969), he was in charge of the Met Office at Salalah in Oman.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network Weather, Presenters: BBC Regional Weather, Presenters: BBC South

Whitfield, Ashleigh

16th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Ashleigh was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980. She graduated from the University of Sunderland. In 2001, she won a radio competition to be the traffic and travel reporter at Century FM.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC Regional Weather

Maine, Michael

18th April 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

(Real name Michael Manning). One of Michael’s first broadcast roles was that of BBC Radio 4 announcer (1973 – 1974). He also worked as a newsreader/announcer at the BBC World Service (1975). He later moved to BBC Bristol as a radio/TV announcer followed by spells in London, Southampton, Manchester and Plymouth.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: BBC North West, Announcers: BBC South, Announcers: BBC South West, Announcers: BBC West, Presenters: BBC North West, Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC South, Presenters: BBC South West, Presenters: BBC West

Muncaster, Martin

27th September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Martin was born in Tillington, near Petworth, Sussex and was educated at Stowe.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: BBC South West, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC South, Presenters: BBC South East, Presenters: BBC South West, Presenters: ITV - Southern TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Bower, Colin

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Colin was a continuity announcer for ABC Television, TWW (Television Wales and the West) in 1958, and one of the first announcers and newsreaders on Anglia Television from its launch in 1959. During his time at the Norwich-based station, Colin also interviewed for news programmes and was a quizmaster. After leaving Anglia in 1964, Colin worked as an announcer/newsreader for the overseas service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and later that year moved to Tyne Tees TV in Newcastle as a continuity announcer and newscaster. As a freelance newsreader, announcer, presenter and quizmaster between 1967 and 1975, Colin worked for several ITV stations, including Westward Television, Grampian and Border. He also worked for the BBC in Bristol, Southampton and London.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - Border TV, Announcers: ITV - Grampian TV, Announcers: ITV - TWW, Announcers: ITV - Tyne Tees TV, Announcers: ITV - Westward, Presenters: ITV - Anglia TV, Presenters: ITV - Border TV, Presenters: ITV - Grampian TV, Presenters: ITV - Tynes Tees TV, Presenters: ITV - Westward TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Hookey, Russell

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Russell moved to Channel TV from the Chrysalis Group in London where he had been newsreading on London radio stations Heart 106.2 and LBC 97.3 (often heard as a regular member of Sandi Toksvig’s team) and also presenting on LBC News 1152. Prior to that he worked in commercial and BBC radio in the regions for more than twelve years as a newsreader, producer and reporter and occasionally popped up covering stories for television with BBC South Today.

At Channel TV, Russell was initially a stand-in presenter on Channel Report; he later became one of the programme’s regular presenters. He also provided continuity announcements at Channel TV.

Russell later moved to ITV Border, where he presented bulletins and filled in on the main Lookaround programme.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Channel TV, Presenters: ITV - Border TV, Presenters: ITV - Channel TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Tracy, Sheila

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Born as Sheila Lugg in Mullion, Cornwall. Sheila studied piano, violin and trombone at the Royal Academy of Music.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC South, Presenters: BBC South West

Miles, David

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

David was born in 1954. He joined the BBC in 1975, working initially as a studio manager in Bush House.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: A+E Networks (UK), Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: Channel 4, Announcers: Discovery Networks Northern Europe

Macann, Peter

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Peter was born in Tehran, Iran. His father, as a Colonel in the Indian Army, was Consul in Ahwaz at the time. Peter spent the first four years of his life in India, before arriving in the UK in 1948.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC South, Presenters: BBC Network (UK)

Harris, Paul

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Paul was a BBC South TV announcer in the late-1970s and early 1980s. He was also a BBC TV network announcer (1981).

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: BBC South


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