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Bligh, Jasmine

1st July 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Jasmine was born in London. She was the niece of Esme Ivo Bligh, the 9th Earl of Darnley and a descendant of Captain William Bligh, the commander famously usurped in the Mutiny on the Bounty.

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

Ellis, Norman

30th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Norman worked at the Met Office (1947 – 1984). He was a BBC TV forecaster (March 1959 – March 1964); during the same period he was also heard on BBC Radio. He joined former BBC TV colleagues on Nationwide to celebrate the 25th anniversary of BBC TV Weather in January 1979 – Bob Wellings interviewed past and present weather forecasters.

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

Waddington, Mark

28th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Mark was born in Bradford. He began broadcasting, aged 17, at BBC Radio Leeds, where he presented a series of features about community life called Down Your Street, mentored by producer Peter Byrne.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Presenters: BBC North East/Cumbria, Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC Yorkshire

Macintosh, Alex

27th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Alex was born in Fulham. He was a former actor. His voice was heard on the very first advert for Gibbs SR Toothpaste shown at 8.12pm on the opening night of ITV on 22nd September 1955.

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

Oxley, Mel

26th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Mel was born in South Africa. He was a former DJ with Radio Luxembourg in the 1950s. He later moved into TV and worked as an ITV announcer for Southern TV (1959 – 1961), ATV, ABC Television and Associated Rediffusion. He moved to BBC Television as a network out-of-vision announcer, who also appeared in-vision conducting interviews on BBC Two (1965 – 1972). He presented BBC Two’s Line-Up (1969) and narrated The Curious Character of Britain (1970) and Sights and Sounds of Britain (1971) for BBC One.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - Associated Rediffusion, Announcers: ITV - ATV (London), Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

Raymont, Tony

25th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Tony was a BBC Midlands newsreader (1957) and a BBC Radio Light Programme/Home Service/Third Programme announcer (1958 – 1962, 1964 – 1965). He presented BBC regional TV’s Town and Around (1960). He was also a BBC TV out-of-vision network announcer (1966).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Midlands, Announcers: BBC Network, Presenters: BBC Midlands, Presenters: BBC Regional News

Edwards, Tom

24th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Tom was born in Norwich. He began his career as a newspaper journalist on the Eastern Evening News and when Anglia TV opened, he worked on in-house commercials and even had a small role in one of their dramas. He compered a weekly live pop show, Beat on the Border, from Border TV in Carlisle and returned years later to the ITV regional company as an announcer/newsreader.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - ATV (Midlands), Announcers: ITV - Border TV, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - Tyne Tees TV, Announcers: ITV - Wales, Announcers: ITV - West, Presenters: BBC East, Presenters: BBC Regional News

Buchan, Josephine

21st June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Josephine was born in London in 1955. She presented various programmes for the BBC, including: Take Two (BBC One, 1984 – 1985); Pebble Mill at One (BBC One, 1984 – 1986); Rock Around the Clock (BBC Two, 25th August 1984); A Song for Christmas (BBC One, 1985). She was a reporter for Did You See…? (BBC Two, 1985) and Off the Record (BBC Two, 1985), and guest-supported on Best of Brass (BBC Two, 1986). She also appeared on Canned Carrot (BBC One, 1990).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV Network

Hulland, Louise

20th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Louise was born in Burnley and graduated from Durham University. She is a Sony Award-winning presenter, journalist and documentary maker specialising in presenting programmes on crime and social issues. Since 2014, Louise has travelled round the country presenting for various BBC local radio stations (from Lancashire to London, Devon to Berkshire). She’s also been a news presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music, a reporter for Newsbeat (BBC Radio 1) and The Arts Show (BBC Radio 2), and has spent years behind-the-scenes at BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, including working with Sir Terry Wogan, Steve Wright, Chris Moyles, Jo Whiley, Sara Cox and The Sunday Surgery.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: Virgin Media TV (UK)

McQueen, Barry

18th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Barry was born in Sydney, Australia in 1932. He originally studied medicine but moved into radio as a commercial announcer (1950 – 1953). For the next six years, he worked in both television and radio for ABC as a newsreader; he also presented Thursday at One (1957), Night Out at Scott’s (1958) and Happy New Year (1959). He worked on commercial TV in Melbourne (1959 – 1960) and presented Today (1960).

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

Whitfield, Ashleigh

16th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Ashleigh was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980. She graduated from the University of Sunderland. In 2001, she won a radio competition to be the traffic and travel reporter at Century FM.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: BBC Regional Weather

Cowan, Barry

15th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Barry Cowan was one of the leading faces of BBC Northern Ireland news and current affairs during the worst of The Troubles in the 1970s and 1980s. He was much-respected by broadcast colleagues and by politicians. Born in Coleraine, County Derry/Londonderry, Barry was educated at Ballymena Academy and graduated in physics from Queen’s University, Belfast. His broadcasting career began in the early 1970s with the BBC, where he was a studio manager. But the man who would eventually become a formidable on-air talent quickly moved into reporting and presenting. In 1974, he became the main anchor on BBC Northern Ireland’s flagship current affairs/news programme, Scene Around Six.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Northern Ireland, Presenters: BBC Regional News, Presenters: RTÉ

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