Roger was born in 1937. He was a long-serving BBC TV network announcer, whose quietly reassuring voice was heard for 29 years on both BBC One and BBC Two (1966 – 1995).
…Staffer, Maureen
Maureen was one of TWW’s most popular in-vision continuity announcers. She was also a newsreader at the station.
Mash, Maggie
Maggie started her broadcasting career on Forces Radio in Cyprus and then worked for BBC and Independent radio stations throughout the country.
…Clayton, David
David was born in Marske, Yorkshire. He began his broadcasting career on hospital radio in Norwich, which he helped launch in November 1974.
…Gourd, Peter
Peter was a children’s producer at Super Channel. He worked behind the microphone as a BBC TV network announcer in the late-1990s and was later head of presentation, BBC Scotland, based in Glasgow.
Healey, Gavin
The ex-Cool FM and Citybeat DJ joined the BBC Northern Ireland TV continuity announcing rota in 1999.
…Fitzgibbon, Barra
Bara has been an announcer with Channel 4 since September 1999. He can also be heard on E4. Bara also had a brief stint on Film4.
Wyn-Jones, Nia
Nia was a radio and TV continuity director/announcer with BBC Wales TV (1980s – 2001). Latterly, she was in charge of the BBC Radio Cymru announcing team. Nia moved into educational programming. As of June 2005, she’s a freelance writer. Since January 2013, she’s been working for Boom Pictures as an assistant producer and producer.
Rooper, Alison
Alison is perhaps best known as an announcer for BBC Radio 4. She also announced for TVS, and for Channel 4 for six months. The BBC World Service was next, and after that came BBC Radio 4, where she has been since 1989.
Sanders, Reg
Reg joined the BBC in January 1988, working at BBC Radio Stoke on Trent. He moved to London to take up a job as a BBC TV network announcer in November 1989. He voiced his first junction – on BBC Two – on 13th November.
…Worral, Nick
Nick is a former Associated Rediffusion announcer.
Symon, Jim
Jim is a well-known Scottish radio and television broadcaster. He was an in-vision announcer for Scottish Television (1983 – TBC). He later freelanced as an out-of-vision announcer for both Scottish TV and Grampian TV (dates TBC). He combined this work with the position of transmission controller for SMG’s (Scottish Media Group) television division – a post which he left in 2000.
Jim’s voice is well known to viewers across the UK as he’s voiced several television advertisements. He was also chosen to be the voice of a new, talking version of the ever-popular Action Man toy.
Since leaving the core staff at SMG, Jim has returned to radio. He has presented the late-night music programme on Westsound Radio based in Ayr; he later presented on radio station Clyde 2.
He still occasionally presented for Scottish and Grampian TV.