Carole was a Border TV announcer and newsreader (mid-1990s). She then moved to BBC Scotland TV, taking on a continuity director/announcer role there. She also lectures in media at Ayr.
Roddick, Gordon
Gordon was an announcer on Scottish Television (1961 – 1973). He then became a transmission controller. He left STV in 1992 to join BBC Scotland, where he was a radio announcer and newsreader. Gordon also sat in the television announcer’s chair at BBC Scotland on a few occasions. He left BBC Scotland in 2000.
Jamieson, Paul
Paul worked as a continuity announcer/director for BBC Scotland (2000 – December 2002) before moving to London to become a member of the ITV 1 network announcing team. His voice was also heard occasionally on ITV 2. Paul has also worked for several radio stations, including The Eagle, Star and BBC Radio Scotland.
Christopher, Alan
Alan is a former BBC Wales TV continuity director/announcer. He is now retired.
Oyston, Owen
Owen is a former ABC TV announcer.
Escolme, John
John obtained a BA (Hons) in communication, cultural studies and public media from the University of Leeds.
…Brand, John
John was a BBC TV network announcer in the early 1970s.
James, Mark
Mark joined BBC Wales TV Presentation from Swansea Sound radio (1989). He left the continuity director/announcer role in the mid-1990s to direct news, and would later concentrate on motorsports and front world rallying programmes for BBC network.
De Barra, Máire
A familiar face on RTÉ TV, Máire was a continuity announcer and children’s presenter in the 1970s and 1980s. She left the station in 1990.
Presenting roles included Dilín Ó Deamhas, a 10-minute all-Irish weekly programme aimed at pre-schoolers, which ran from 1983 until 1988.
Máire trained as an actress in the Abbey School of Acting, before joining RTÉ Radio in 1972.
Manners, Lesley
Previously known as Lesley Cairney, Lesley was an in-vision continuity announcer and newsreader at Border Television (1980s) and also at Tyne Tees Television.
…Lincoln, Frank
Frank was a BBC Wales TV continuity director/announcer (1970s – 1990s). He then switched to freelance voiceover work, for TV documentaries and educational programmes.
Shoesmith, Peter
Peter was an actor (1958 – 1966) and then a newsreader at TWW (Bristol) and Tyne Tees TV in Newcastle. He was a BBC TV network announcer (1969).
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