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Continuity Announcer/Director

Brook, Peter

3rd October 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Peter had a very distinctive, deep, rich voice.  He was an announcer at Southern TV (1969 – 1971) and a newsreader for BBC Norwich’s Look East.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Presenters: BBC East, Presenters: BBC Regional News

Finighan, Adrian

2nd October 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Adrian is a Welsh journalist. He joined the BBC in 1988, working in local radio as a reporter and producer.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC International, Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: BBC Wales, Announcers: Channel 4, Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - Carlton TV London, Announcers: ITV - LWT, Announcers: Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), Presenters: Al Jazeera Media Network, Presenters: BBC International, Presenters: BBC Midlands, Presenters: BBC Network News (UK), Presenters: BBC South East, Presenters: Sky News

Reid, Paul

27th September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Paul was born in July 1974. Before finishing university, he started working for Downtown Radio/Cool FM as a holiday relief newsreader and occasional reporter in 1997, becoming full-time by 1998 when he graduated from Bournemouth University.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Northern Ireland

Olver, David

24th September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

David was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Belfast College of Business Studies. He joined the BBC Northern Ireland presentation team at the age of 18, in January 1978 and took up duties which included television and radio newsreading, as well as television and radio continuity. He was also the Northern Ireland presenter on BBC Radio 2’s Family Favourites, with Jean Challis and Pete Murray, for several years from April 1979.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Northern Ireland

Cartledge, Andy

20th September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Andy joined the BBC as a studio manager in the early 1960s and was a continuity announcer on both BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 (October 1968 – April 1969) before he moved over to TV Centre and became a familiar voice on BBC One and BBC Two.

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

Eynon, Malcolm

13th September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Malcolm was born in 1947.  He joined the BBC in 1974 and for 27 years was a regular voice as a network announcer on BBC One and BBC Two before taking redundancy in October 2001.

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

Hammal, Bruce

13th September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Bruce was born in 1951.  He’s a former studio manager and BBC TV announcer (1975 – 1984).  He also appeared in-vision on BBC TV’s Breakfast Time‘ in 1983, in the TV Choice slot and as the out-of-vision commentator on Come Dancing (1980 – 1984).

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

Allan, David

1st September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Born Gordon Allan in Manchester, David is a broadcaster with over 50 years’ experience and, for people of a certain generation, is a very recognisable voice.  Certainly one of the great broadcast voices of all time. 

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: A+E Networks (UK), Announcers: BBC International, Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Carlton TV London, Announcers: ITV Network

Offer, Peter

1st September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Peter was born in July 1963.  He joined the BBC in November 1985 as an assistant sound recordist, BBC TV.  He worked in post-production for a wide variety of programmes, including many long-running series such as Miss Marple, Bergerac and Lovejoy.

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

Roslin, Clive

1st September 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Born in Zimbabwe, Clive began broadcasting on Rhodesian radio at the age of seven, on schools and children’s programmes.  He listened to the BBC Overseas Service as a child.

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

Martin, Keith

1st September 2018 by The Showreel Team 1 Comment

Keith was born in Sandwich and was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral.  He trained in catering, then joined the Merchant Navy but illness brought him home and he started work in the advertising department of Granada Television in London.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - Associated Rediffusion, Announcers: ITV - ATV (Midlands), Announcers: ITV - Border TV, Announcers: ITV - LWT, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - TVS, Announcers: ITV - Wales, Announcers: ITV - West, Announcers: ITV - Yorkshire TV, Presenters: BBC Regional News

Yates, Alastair

1st September 2018 by The Showreel Team 1 Comment

Alastair was a broadcaster whose career spanned four decades.  He was born and brought up in Burton-upon-Trent.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Midlands, Presenters: BBC International, Presenters: BBC Midlands, Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network News (UK), Presenters: ITV - Anglia TV, Presenters: ITV - Grampian TV, Presenters: Sky News

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