This page offers an alternative method of perusing our talent profile content. By selecting values from the three categories below, you can generate a dynamic list of profile pages.
For example, you might wish to see a list of all the Continuity Announcers (Job Role) who also have an association with BBC One Network (Channel). It should be noted that this list will not necessarily be a definitive list of all the continuity announcers on BBC One Network; the list may also include continuity announcers who have worked for other channels but who appeared on BBC One Network in a job role other than continuity announcer.
We have also created a set of predefined lists of announcers and presenters. You can peruse those lists on a separate page HERE.
Clicking on any of the values within the three categories (below) will generate a list of relevant links to profile pages. You may select more than one value from a category, by pressing the CTNL button and clicking on a value.
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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 joined the BBC in 1968 working in local radio in Durham. She later worked as a reporter for regional news in Plymouth and Southampton, before moving to BBC national news: home reporter (1979 – 1983); special correspondent (1982 – 1989); court corr …
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 Television until October 2002. She began her broadcasting career while at school, presenti …
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 Dur …
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
A former actress who went on to become an in-vision continuity announcer for TWW in the 1960s and its successor, HTV West (1968 – c. 1984).
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
LWT announcer from the early 1980s until the mid-1990s.