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Published 14 April 2023
A scandal at Channel 4: decades of programmes lost, forgotten, trapped in rights hell… and nobody cares
Published 8 July 2022
As Richard Baker retires from newsreading in 1982, Ariel looks back at his BBC career
Published 21 April 2022
With the outbreak of war, the BBC Empire Service announcers move from anonymity to the impersonation-avoiding limelight
Published 4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers
Published 5 July 2021
In France they’re chasing announcers down the street asking for their hand in marriage. In Britain? Not quite.