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Scott-Joynt, Hannah

2nd July 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Hannah’s love of radio began in her teenage years. She gained a degree in radio, film and TV at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her first broadcasting job was with BBC Radio in Herts, Beds and Bucks. She moved into television as a network announcer on BBC One and BBC Two (1997 – 2000). She was the launch announcer on BBC Choice. In 2000, she appeared on BBC One’s daytime show Talking TV and showed presenter Vanessa Feltz behind-the-scenes of network control – and Vanessa even did two short daytime BBC One links.

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

Macintosh, Alex

27th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Alex was born in Fulham. He was a former actor. His voice was heard on the very first advert for Gibbs SR Toothpaste shown at 8.12pm on the opening night of ITV on 22nd September 1955.

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

Oxley, Mel

26th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Mel was born in South Africa. He was a former DJ with Radio Luxembourg in the 1950s. He later moved into TV and worked as an ITV announcer for Southern TV (1959 – 1961), ATV, ABC Television and Associated Rediffusion. He moved to BBC Television as a network out-of-vision announcer, who also appeared in-vision conducting interviews on BBC Two (1965 – 1972). He presented BBC Two’s Line-Up (1969) and narrated The Curious Character of Britain (1970) and Sights and Sounds of Britain (1971) for BBC One.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - Associated Rediffusion, Announcers: ITV - ATV (London), Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

Edwards, Tom

24th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Tom was born in Norwich. He began his career as a newspaper journalist on the Eastern Evening News and when Anglia TV opened, he worked on in-house commercials and even had a small role in one of their dramas. He compered a weekly live pop show, Beat on the Border, from Border TV in Carlisle and returned years later to the ITV regional company as an announcer/newsreader.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - ATV (Midlands), Announcers: ITV - Border TV, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - Tyne Tees TV, Announcers: ITV - Wales, Announcers: ITV - West, Presenters: BBC East, Presenters: BBC Regional News

King, Martin

22nd June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Martin was a former actor, whose distinctive, rich voice was heard as an announcer, first at Southern TV (1973) and then for 16 years on network BBC Television (1973 – 1989).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

Buchan, Josephine

21st June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Josephine was born in London in 1955. She presented various programmes for the BBC, including: Take Two (BBC One, 1984 – 1985); Pebble Mill at One (BBC One, 1984 – 1986); Rock Around the Clock (BBC Two, 25th August 1984); A Song for Christmas (BBC One, 1985). She was a reporter for Did You See…? (BBC Two, 1985) and Off the Record (BBC Two, 1985), and guest-supported on Best of Brass (BBC Two, 1986). She also appeared on Canned Carrot (BBC One, 1990).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV Network

Courtie, Simeon

11th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Simeon was born in Swindon and grew up in Liverpool. His father was a vicar. He left school in 1986, aged 16, and became a City & Guilds-qualified mechanical and electrical engineer, completing a four-year apprenticeship at Timsons, a printing press manufacturer in Kettering. During this time, he joined the local hospital radio station KHBA and started volunteering at BBC Radio Northampton. In 1990, he began a full-time broadcasting career as a radio car reporter and presenter at BBC Radio Northampton.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Children's Presenters: ITV Network, Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV Network

McGavin, John

10th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Also known as John McGavin Gordon. John was an ABC and ATV London announcer in the 1950s, but had an ambition to become an actor and went to drama school.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - ATV (London), Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

Everard, Martin

9th June 2019 by The Showreel Team 2 Comments

Martin’s first on-air role was as a relief announcer with BBC Northern Ireland in the 1960s. From there he moved to London and gradually moved up through the ranks of TV presentation, before moving into programme production. He took some time out from his BBC job to participate in the British America’s Cup Challenge (Lionheart) (1979 – 1980).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Northern Ireland, Presenters: BBC Northern Ireland, Presenters: BBC Regional News

Aziz, Khalid

5th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Professor Khalid Aziz LVO, DL, FRSA was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1953. His broadcasting career began at the BBC as a producer at BBC Radio Leicester (1969). He soon moved into TV reporting on the BBC’s Look North (1977 – 1979) and then became its youngest presenter (1979 – 1981), at the age of 24.  On 28th March 2008, he joined former presenter Sue Wilkins, along with current presenters Harry Gration and Christa Ackroyd for the programme’s 40th anniversary edition from the National Media Museum.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC Yorkshire, Presenters: ITV - TVS, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Redfern, Barrie

3rd June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Barrie was born in Rotherham. He started out as a student broadcaster, before moving to BBC Local Radio.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Yorkshire, Announcers: ITV - Grampian TV, Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC Yorkshire, Presenters: ITV - Grampian TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Myers, John

2nd June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

John was born in Carlisle. He was a familiar face on Border TV (1980s), as a continuity announcer and programme presenter. However, it was in that other broadcast medium – radio – where John truly shone. He was a leading figure in the radio industry, with an association with many stations. He also penned a number of reports on radio – for the government and the BBC.

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

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