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Mayclem, Liam

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Liam is a former continuity announcer and news reporter for Channel Television (1989 – 1994). He also reported for the religious news magazine programme Link-Up and produced the station’s Weekend Diary. He later became the channel’s youth features reporter and producer.

Liam moved to the US to host Tomorrow’s World America and a music show, Audiofile, both of which are broadcast across the States on techtv. He later became head of arts and entertainment for KRON TV – an independent television station in San Francisco.

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Taylor, Shaw

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Shaw was one of the first continuity announcers on ATV (London). He went on to present his regional crime-busting Police Five slot on London Weekend Television and ATV for 25 years, and, at other times, on several other ITV regional stations. As a result he, and his sign-off catchphrase “keep ’em peeled”, became well-known nationally.

Thompson, Paul

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Paul was a local radio presenter working for Radio Broadland and later Classic Gold Amber in Norwich. He joined Anglia as a freelance announcer in 1994, often covering holidays and sick leave whilst also continuing with his radio career. He had the sad task of stepping in to take the place of Graham Bell after his sudden death in 1997. In 1998, Paul left Anglia to work at The Beach, a radio station in Lowestoft, where he stayed until 2004. He still lives in Norwich.

Lloyd, Jim

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Jim is a former actor. He joined Tyne Tees Television as an announcer (1959) and later took up the same role at ATV (Midlands) (1961). He left to join BBC Birmingham’s Midlands Today as a presenter. In 1964, a meeting with the Spinners gave him his long-term interest in folk music which led him to join BBC Radio 2 in 1969 as a presenter.

Carson, Avril

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Avril is a former ATV and Central in-vision continuity announcer. She went on to head up Central’s in-house training company, and has since produced many audio cassettes covering subjects such as how to speak confidently in public. She has also announced for the BBC, and was also one of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s players.

Rhodes, Pam

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Pam is perhaps best known as one of the presenters of the BBC’s Songs of Praise. She was a regular in-vision continuity announcer for London Weekend Television (1981 – TBC). Before that she was an announcer, reporter and presenter for Norwich-based Anglia Television; she co-presented on About Anglia (1976 – 1981).

Before embarking on a career as a presenter, Rhodes was a Black and White Minstrels Show girl, where, she says, she danced up to six miles a night! Fellow Anglia presenter Christine Webber was also a ‘minstrels’ show girl.