Shirley Perera

Shirley Perera

Shirley Perera was a popular announcer of the 1960s and 1970s in Radio Ceylon - the oldest radio station in South Asia. Perera presented some of the well known radio programs of the station including 'You call the tune.'

Millions of listeners turned into the radio programs broadcast over the airwaves of Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation .

Shirley Perera also climbed the management ladder of the SLBC he was appointed Director of the English Services in the early 1980s in Sri Lanka.

ee also

*Radio Ceylon

External links

* [http://www.slbc.lk Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation]
* [http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/12/21/fea10.htm SLBC-creating new waves of history]
* [http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/12/27/fea02.htm Eighty Years of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka]


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