This page contains a complete A – Z listing of all the talent profile pages currently available on the site.
Absalom, Michael
TV presenter and sports commentator/reporter.
Ackroyd, Christa
Bradford-born Christa Ackroyd – one of the main presenters of Yorkshire Television’s Calendar for more than 10 years – left the station in 2001 to anchor the rival BBC Look North from Leeds from autumn that year. Christa had been with YTV since 1 …
Adair, Arthur
ATV London announcer.
Adams, B. W.
BBC TV network out-of-vision announcer (1964).
Adams, Kaye
Kaye was a Central News reporter in the mid-1980s. She joined STV in the late-1980s as a reporter for Scotland Today. She was one of the first reporters on the scene at Lockerbie. Kaye could also be seen presenting Scotland Today and also presented Sc …
Adey, Dave
Dave was a BBC TV network announcer in the early 1990s. He was the duty announcer at closedown for the final playout of the BBC One COW (Computer Originated World) symbol in the early hours of 16th February 1991. The following year, he moved behind the …
Adie, Kate
Kate was born in Northumberland and adopted as a baby by a couple in Sunderland. She gained a BA from Newcastle University, where she read Swedish. Her career with the BBC began in 1968, initially as a station assistant at BBC Radio Durham. She later w …
Adoo, Edward
Edward joined Channel 4 in autumn 2005 for the launch of More4. He also had brief stints on Channel 4 and E4. Whilst at Channel 4, Edward was a freelance announcer for ITV 2, ITV 4 and Men and Motors. Edward is now freelancing. Recent …
Ahmad, Asad
Asad joined the BBC regional news trainee scheme in 1996. In 1997 he got his first TV job reporting and presenting with the BBC in Birmingham. He then moved to BBC Scotland where he was a reporter and presenter, working on programmes such a …
Ahmad, Tazeen
Tazeen graduated from university with a 2:1 in communication studies. She started off as a news assistant at ITN and later became involved in various projects for a number of radio stations. At BBC GLR, she presented a live one-hour arts an …
Ahmed, Samira
Samira is a former BBC news trainee who went on to anchor news programmes on BBC News 24 and BBC World. She was also a reporter for Newsnight and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. She joined Channel 4 News in April 1999 as a general reporter. …
Aitken, Helen
Helen was an announcer at Granada Media Group’s northern transmission centre in Leeds. She voiced announcements on Yorkshire, Tyne Tees, Granada and Border until October 2002. She began her broadcasting career while at school, presenting on Hospital Ra …
Aitken, Jonathan
Aitken brandished his ‘sword of truth’ as a news reporter and presenter on Calendar in the early 1970s before he won the Thanet East parliamentary constituency for the Conservative Party in 1974, and turned to a career in politics. He was later a board …
Akehurst, Keith
Keith was a news presenter with TVS. When Meridian took over the southern ITV franchise, he moved to BBC Look North at BBC North East in Newcastle. Keith is currently a senior reporter for BBC Look North.
Akua, Nana
Nana was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in July 1971 (as Nana Akua Amotemaa-Appiah), after her parents came over from Ghana in the 1960s. She relocated to the US with her parents, aged 11, but would later return to the UK and study business and …
Alagiah, George
George was born in Colombo, Ceylon. His parents moved to Ghana in West Africa in 1961. He read politics at Durham University and whilst there wrote for and became editor of the student newspaper Palatinate; he was also a sabbatical officer of Durham S …
Aldred, Ian
Ian was born in Manchester in 1949. He trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He was on an attachment to BBC Presentation as a continuity announcer for BBC One and BBC Two (1985 – 1987) and was senior presentation announcer, BBC Scot …
Alexander, Aaron
Aaron joined the BBC Northern Ireland television announcing team in the late-1990s.
Alexander, Cathy
Former Central News (South) reporter and presenter. Cathy also presented the news on the now defunct satellite broadcaster BSB in 1990. She currently presents and reports for Meridian Tonight.
Alexander, Kay
Kay is a presenter on BBC Midlands Today and has been with the programme since 1974. She was one of the main presenters on the programme until the late-1990s. Kay now covers breakfast and lunchtime shifts mostly. As a freelance, she also works on cor …
Alexander, Lesley
YTV news reporter and Calendar presenter who left the company in the late-1990s to work on French television.
Alexander, Lucy
Lucy’s journalistic career began as a reporter with BBC local radio – BBC Radio Solent, BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester and BBC Greater London Radio. Her first TV job was with Anglia TV as a producer. She soon moved on to reporting and pre …
Alexander, Michael
Former Southern Television announcer.
Alford, Sally
Sally was born in Weston-super-Mare, in November 1940. She is a former actress, who went on to become an in-vision continuity announcer for TWW in the 1960s and its successor, HTV West (spring 1968 – c. 1985). Whilst at HTV, in the late-1970s, Sally pr …
Algie, Suzie
Gaelic speaking presenter of Grampian Television’s Telefios Gaelic-language news magazine in the 1990s.
Allan, David
Born Gordon Allan in Manchester, David is a broadcaster with over 50 years’ experience and, for people of a certain generation, is a very recognisable voice. Certainly one of the great broadcast voices of all time. His first job was as assi …
Allen, Glen
Glen is a voiceover artist/presenter who found fame with his knowledgeable introductions to Dr Who, Blake’s 7 and other cult shows on UK Gold. His first television appearance was in 1996, providing in-vision continuity on UK Gold and fronting his own B …
Allen, Paul
Paul Allen runs a successful Dublin-based PR and public affairs business – Paul Allen & Associates. He began his broadcasting career working for a number of pirate radio stations during the 1980s, including ARD, Big D, Radio Dublin, Capital and the …
Allen, Steve
Steve joined BBC Wales TV Presentation in 1998 having previously worked in news.
Amroliwala, Matthew
Matthew became a national BBC correspondent in 1990. He spent some time based in Northern Ireland where he reported on events such as the Shankill bombing, the Greysteel shootings and the first IRA ceasefire. Other notable assignments included the fall …
Anders, Ruth
Ruth was an LWT announcer/newsreader (1982 – 1994). Pre-1984, Ruth was a senior stage manager, English National Opera (seven years), tour manager, Royal Shakespeare Company (four years) and tour administrator for ENO’s American Tour (18 months). She la …
Anderson, Andrew
Andrew Anderson worked for Grampian Television as a reporter and presenter of North Tonight from February 1988 until October 1992. He went on to work for Reuters Television as the first Scotland correspondent for the fledgling breakfast TV compan …
Anderson, Graham
Graham 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. Alth …
Andrew, John
John’s broadcasting career began at ILR station Radio Tees. He then joined BBC Newcastle before moving to London as a reporter/presenter on BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme. He presented Thames News with Andrew Gardener during the 1980s. Jo …
Andrew, Ken
Former Thames TV and BSB news presenter.
Andrews, Eamonn
Born in Dublin, Eamonn Andrews began sports commentating for Radio Éireann in 1939 and subsequently worked on various programmes for BBC Radio, including Sports Report (1950 – 1962). On television he hosted the BBC’s parlour game What’s My Line? (1951 …
Andrews, June
Former Scottish TV announcer.
Andrews, Pamela
Pamela was a continuity announcer/director with BBC Northern Ireland (October 2001 – October 2010). She then moved to a creative marketing producer role, creating (and occasionally voicing) programme and campaign trails for BBC One/Two Northern I …
Angwin, Richard
Richard’s began his weather forecasting career in 1990. In 1995, he auditioned for a weather presenting job at BBC West. He got the job and is still the main weather presenter there. He can also be heard presenting the weather on vari …
Anstis, Toby
TV/radio presenter and DJ.
Anthony, Patrick
Patrick was born in Dublin. With five years of theatre behind him, he began his broadcasting career at HTV Wales, as a newsreader and announcer, and became the first Irishman to read the Welsh news in English! In 1976, he joined Anglia TV as one of the …
Ap Brinley, Alun
Alun is an actor who has occasionally freelanced as an announcer. Announcing jobs include S4C and BBC Wales TV.
Appleton, Trevor
TSW’s long-serving weatherman, replaced by TV-am’s Trish Williamson, and then Andy Yeatman from the local Met Office. After leaving TSW, Trevor continued to forecast for the BBC’s Look North, and now combines this with a full-time job as a Rights of Wa …
Archer, Andy
Former Tyne Tees announcer.
Armah, Claudia-Liza
Claudia-Liza is a TV news presenter. She has worked for Sky News and the BBC (60 Seconds, BBC Three). Since 2014, she has worked for the London Live television channel, where she hosts Headline London.
Armour, Downie
Downie was a BBC TV national weather forecaster (1956 – 1958). He died in 1979.
Armstrong, Fiona
Fiona began her career as a reporter/presenter for Border Television in the early 1980s before becoming one of ITN’s main newscasters (March 1987 – 1992). She was the first co-anchor on GMTV in 1993, and later returned to Border TV as one of the anchor …
Armstrong, Jack
Jack was a BBC TV national weather forecaster (1956 – 1965). He worked at the Met Office for 36 years (1947 – 1983). He died in 1984.
Arnold, Andrea
Andrea was one of the presenters of children’s show No.73 (ITV).
Arthur, Toni
Toni was born Antoinette Alice Priscilla, in Oxford. She won a music scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of nine and gave a concert at the Wigmore Hall in the same year. She trained as a nurse at University College Hospital. She was a …