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Ashe, Anna-Maria

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Anna-Maria Ashe was a continuity announcer at BBC Scotland, TVS and Grampian Television in the mid-1980s. She also presented lunchtime news bulletins in-vision during her time with BBC Scotland (1986). She later moved to the TVS nightly news magazine Coast to Coast where she did a stint at presenting/newsreading for the Southampton edition, before moving to the Maidstone programme.

Anna-Maria was replaced at Maidstone by Liz Wickham when she moved to LWT as the main anchor of LWT News and LWT News Weekend. She was one of the main presenters on the London Tonight programme on ITV until February 2004.

Mitchell, Ken

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Ken was a presenter with Scotland’s Radio Clyde and Scot FM. He later moved to BBC Scotland TV, taking up a continuity director/announcer post. Ken currently covers BBC One Scotland. The role previously also covered BBC Two Scotland but that channel was replaced by the network version of BBC Two, just prior to the launch of the BBC Scotland channel. Although the dedicated Scottish content channel has its own team of announcers, some BBC One Scotland voices can also be heard on the BBC Scotland channel.

Kee, Robert

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During a long career in TV news and current affairs, Robert was associated with a number of BBC and ITV programmes: reporter, BBC TV’s Panorama (1958 – 1962) and presenter in 1982; reporter, This Week (1965 – 1968); ITN newscaster on lunchtime programme First Report (October 1972 – January 1976). In 1980 he both wrote and presented Ireland – A Television History.

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Barker, Ellie

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Ellie studied sociology at Bath University. On leaving university, Ellie’s aspirations to work in television got off to a good start with a work placement on the BBC’s Kilroy programme; she later became Robert Kilroy-Silk’s PA. She moved on to join GMTV, as a runner initially but went on to become a trainee producer.

It was then back to the books to study for a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism at Birmingham University. Ellie subsequently got a position as a trainee journalist with Carlton. She later moved to HTV West as a journalist, followed by a return to GMTV as Scotland correspondent.

In October 2003, she joined BBC Look East as a presenter and reporter, covering the west of the region.


Ross-Barnard, John

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John was a BBC TV (voice-only) network announcer (1966 – 1968), covering BBC One and BBC Two.

Other roles:

  • Network presentation director and assistant presentation editor (1968 – 1973);
  • Head of BBC foreign recordings, Radioplay (1973 – 1976);
  • Head of BBC Video (1978 – 1984);
  • Chief executive of Coventry Cable TV (1984 – 1987);
  • Henley College (1988);
  • CEO Satellite Media Services (Capital Radio) (1987 – 1993);
  • Assigned to Peace Initiative in Bosnia (1993 – 2000) – specialising in pirate radio and TV.