Ex-Radio 2 newsreader and presenter dies at 79

Former BBC Radio 2 newsreader and presenter Colin Berry has died on the age of 79.

Berry was a fixture on Radio 2 from the early Nineteen Seventies to the early 90s, internet hosting the early slot and late-night reveals together with Night time Experience and You and the Night time and the Music.

He stood in for daytime presenters together with Sir Terry Wogan, and was a bunch on BBC Three Counties Radio from 2004 to 2019.

He was additionally acquainted to Eurovision viewers, studying out the UK jury’s outcomes between 1978 and 2002.

Paying tribute, Helen Thomas, head of Radio 2, stated: “All of us at Radio 2 have been saddened to listen to of the passing of Colin Berry, who was a part of our on air household for a few years. We ship our condolences to his household and buddies.”

Berry began his profession on pirate station Radio Caroline in 1965, earlier than shifting to BBC Radio Medway (now Kent), HTV in Cardiff and Radio 1 earlier than settling at Radio 2.

He was the station’s first in a single day host when it began 24-hour broadcasts in 1979, with a programme that included a what’s on information and a cookery slot “for these of our listeners who get house late and really feel like a snack”.

He additionally made appearances on TV reveals together with High of The Pops, Blankety Clean and Going Reside.