Adrian was born in Windsor. He was an actor/writer with the Cambridge Footlights and a former maths teacher. He was an in-vision Southern Television continuity announcer (1975 – 1980).
…Tozer, Norman
Norman started in television in 1954 as a BBC OB stage manager. He joined ATV for the opening of commercial TV in 1955. In 1961, he moved from a senior floor manager position at ATV to being one of the station’s London on-screen announcers. The other announcers were Shaw Taylor and Arthur Adair. Norman replaced Peter Cockburn.
He continued announcing and presenting programmes for ATV London until April 1965. He then went on to become a radio and TV presenter/reporter, and advisor on consumer affairs. In the early 1980s, he moved into video directing.
In 2001, Norman became the director of William Poel Events for the Society for Theatre Research.
Factor, Ilisa
Ilisa presented for Swansea Sound and Red Dragon FM (late-1980s/early 1990s) before joining AA Roadwatch, then BBC Radio Sheffield (October 1991 – October 1994). She later moved to BBC TV News in Norwich and Cambridge (October 1994 – September 1999), working across local TV production for the region – vision mixing, directing live news programmes, floor managing, live studio sound mixing.
Ilisa joined BBC Wales TV presentation as a continuity director/announcer (September 1999 – May 2003). Since then, she’s held various roles within post-production/graphic design – more recently (May 2014 – present), post-production lead.