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Continuity Announcer

Stevens, Lorna

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Lorna was an HTV West and Thames TV continuity announcer who moved to the HTV weather department when in-vision announcing was axed in 1993. She was regularly seen as a weather presenter on both HTV West and HTV Wales, but recently left when weather presentation was centralised in Birmingham. Lorna is also believed to have announced for HTV Wales.

A former professional model who worked with The Bluebell Girls first in Barcelona, Spain, and then in Paris, she started her broadcasting career on her return to the UK with local ILR station Radio 210 in the Thames Valley. She went on to work as an announcer for BBC Radio 4 and was a network announcer on BBC TV (1984 – 1986), before embarking on a career as a freelance announcer/presenter for several ITV companies and also on BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting). Lorna also worked as an announcer on Westcountry Television in Plymouth for around 18 months from 1993 with colleague Peter Griffin.

Wilson, Gerry

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Gerry is a former RTÉ 2FM DJ. In 1994, he also took on an announcing role for RTÉ One and RTÉ Network 2. He also voiced promotional trails for the TV channels. Gerry gave up the TV announcing post in 1997. In June 2001, Gerry left RTÉ to go full-time with his voiceover business. Over the years, clients have included: Intel, Microsoft, The Times Newspaper UK, Polygram, EMI, Universal Music, Virgin Music, BBC, LiveIreland.Com, The National Lottery, City Jet, The Mirror, Falcon Holidays, Wrangler, Heinz, Aer Lingus, Esat, The Economist, British Midland, Skoda, CMS, Gaiety Theatre and Blockbuster.

Cavilla, Pauline

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Pauline has a post-graduate diploma in Radio Journalism. She worked as a broadcast journalist at various BBC local radio stations (1994 – 1998). She was a BBC TV network announcer, covering BBC One and BBC Two (1998 – 2000). She currently works as a voiceover artist and audio describer.

Hobbies: helping to run a Rainbow unit.

Love, Walter

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Walter joined the BBC in London as a studio manager in 1958. After a year with the BBC in Edinburgh, he moved to Broadcasting House in Belfast, where, after a year, he became a staff announcer. Throughout the 1960s, Walter was the main television news presenter with BBC Northern Ireland. He also looked after the radio continuity operation and presented various radio programmes.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Walter also carried out television continuity duties with BBC Northern Ireland.

In 1978 he went freelance, presenting the magazine programme Day by Day. In the late-1980s, he took up the afternoon slot on BBC Radio Ulster, presenting Love in the Afternoon. He then became the presenter and producer on Love Forty.

In 1998, he was awarded an MBE for his services to broadcasting.


Campbell, Kirsty

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Kirsty currently works as a continuity announcer/director on BBC One Scotland. The role previously also covered BBC Two Scotland but that channel was replaced by the network version of BBC Two, just prior to the launch of the BBC Scotland channel. Although the dedicated Scottish content channel has its own team of announcers, some BBC One Scotland voices can also be heard on the BBC Scotland channel.

Kirsty previously worked on radio, at Q96.