Neville was born in Wallsend-on-Tyne. He began his working life as a financial director in his father’s engineering company. He did National Service and was stationed in Germany in the Royal Horse Artillery.
…Lavender, Maggie
Maggie Lavender is a senior announcer for Scottish Television. Before joining STV, she was based at Glasgow Airport, presenting morning reports for Flightwatch. Her voice was also heard in the Grampian TV area for a number of years prior to its rebranding as STV.
Maggie is also a trained actress.
Lowe, Teresa
Teresa joined the announcing staff on RTÉ One in 1984. She also worked on the new RTÉ Network 2 service. She went on to host the popular Sunday night quiz show Where in the World in the early 1990s. Teresa left TV continuity c. 1992. Her younger sister, Mary Lowe, was also a continuity announcer on RTÉ TV.
Raison, Caroline
Caroline was an announcer with Anglia in the 1970s and 1980s and a newsreader on About Anglia (1977 – 1982), often alternating with veteran John Bacon.
Ford, Jerome
Jerome was a continuity announcer on RTÉ One from 1997 until the early 2000s.
Hofman, David
David was a BBC TV in-vision announcer at Alexandra Palace briefly during the pre-World War II years. His voice was also heard on radio, on the BBC Empire Service.
Davison, Eleri
Eleri was an assistant in the BBC Wales TV Presentation dept for many years. She moved into the continuity director/announcer role in 1998.
Slattery, Jon
Jon was one of the original team of announcers on the relaunched RTÉ Network 2 in late-1997. By 2000, Jon moved had moved to RTÉ One and was also by this stage voicing many RTÉ One and RTÉ Network 2 programme promotions.
Jon later provided voiceovers for a number of UK TV networks.
Smith, Oliver
Oliver has been a continuity announcer on Turner Classic Movies, BBC America, Sci-Fi Channel and The History Channel. He has also voiced trails for television including BBC, ITV, Sky, UKTV Gold and Zone Thriller.
Penny, Daphne
Daphne was a Grampian TV continuity announcer and presenter (1961 – 1965). She presented The Rogies and Romper Room.
Daphne died in 1993.
McInerney, Geraldine
Geraldine was an RTÉ continuity announcer in the early 1970s. She went on to became the first woman to read the news on RTÉ Television in October 1975.
Longdon, Erica
Erica was a Carlton Television (London) announcer (January 2000 – 2002). She also announced at Channel 4 (1988 – 1992), The Family Channel (1993 – 1996) and The Disney Channel (1997 – TBC).