Colin Berry

Colin Berry
Born	29 January 1946 (1946-01-29) (age 65) Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Residence	Hertfordshire, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Radio Presenter
Employer	Various till 1973; BBC Radio 2 (1973-2006); Freelance (2006 onwards)

Colin Berry is a British radio disc jockey/presenter and newsreader, best known for his many years at BBC Radio 2.

Colin started his radio career reading news on Radio Caroline in 1965. Before that he had performed administrative duties at Granada Television and Westward Television and went on to do similar for Radio Caroline. After the Marine Offences Bill came into force Colin spent time with more administrative duties for the newly opened Yorkshire Television while working as a club D-J, moving on to work in record promotion, and BBC Radio Medway as a Saturday afternoon presenter. He also spent the summer of 1971 as an announcer for HTV.

Colin had a brief stint with BBC Radio 1 writing and presenting programme trails, before joining BBC Radio 2 as an announcer/presenter in 1973, where he stayed on the staff for thirty-three years, presenting such shows as Night Ride, The Late Show, Music Through Midnight, European Pop Jury, Band Parade, The Early Show, You & The Night & The Music and countless other shows and concerts. He also deputised for most of the main daytime presenters, including Terry Wogan, Jimmy Young and David Hamilton. During this lengthy period Colin presented programmes for BFBS, and also Inflight Productions which he continues to do now. He has also taken part in various TV programmes over the years.

He was the UK spokesman for the Eurovision Song Contest for 25 years reading out their country's voting results between 1977 and 2002 (only missing out on the 1980 and 1998 contests). He also appeared on the following shows: The Generation Game, Blankety Blank, Top Of The Pops, Going Live, Supermarket Sweep and Bargain Hunt, to name but a few. The BBC has a policy of generally retiring all staff at sixty, so Colin is now freelance and still reading the news occasionally on Radio Two, while having recently presented a weekly show for BBC Local Radio across the Eastern Counties - The Saturday Club: 6 to 9pm, playing music from the 1960s and 1970s. He is represented by BigFish Media for his voiceover work. He also has an occasional series for BBC Three Counties Radio - A Little Light Music, a rare find on today's radio stations. These days he can be heard on The Vintage Top 40 Show from time to time on various BBC Local Stations at 5pm on Sundays.

References

Listen Again to Colin Berry at BBC Three Counties Radio here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/bbc_three_counties_radio

Colin's Profile at BBC Three Counties Radio here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2005/09/30/local_radio_colin_berry_profile_feature.shtml Colin's voiceover agent here: http://www.bigfishmedia.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?p=Colin%20Berry

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Name	Berry, Colin
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Date of birth	29 January 1946
Place of birth	Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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