Every station has an announcer that everyone remembers and actor Charles Foster performs that role for Granada Television, where he was one of the main in-vision announcers throughout the 1970s and 1980s. One of the old school, the avuncular Foster had great warmth and a terrific on-screen presence. As well as announcing for Granada, Foster also narrated several schools programmes for the company, as well as being the voiceover man on game shows such as Connections.
Married to actress Meg Johnson (who featured in Coronation Street and Brookside), Foster retired from Granada in the early 1990s, but has since popped up in cameo acting roles in a number of television programmes, including Coronation Street.
He continues with voiceover work, most notably on daytime ITV show, Judge Rinder.
Charles’ nickname at Granada was ‘Farns Barns’ – a music hall reference, we’re told by David Halliday, assistant transmission controller at Granada (1975 – 1979).
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