Former BBC Radio 2 newsreader and presenter Colin Berry has died on the age of 79.
Berry used to be a fixture on Radio 2 from the early Nineteen Seventies to the early 90s, webhosting the early slot and late-night displays together with Evening Experience and You and the Evening and the Track.
He stood in for daylight presenters together with Sir Terry Wogan, and used to be a number on BBC 3 Counties Radio from 2004 to 2019.
He used to be additionally acquainted to Eurovision audience, studying out the United Kingdom jury’s effects between 1978 and 2002.
Paying tribute, Helen Thomas, head of Radio 2, mentioned: “All people at Radio 2 had been saddened to listen to of the passing of Colin Berry, who used to be a part of our on air circle of relatives for a few years. We ship our condolences to his friends and family.”
Berry began his occupation on pirate station Radio Caroline in 1965, sooner than transferring to BBC Radio Medway (now Kent), HTV in Cardiff and Radio 1 sooner than settling at Radio 2.
He used to be the station’s first in a single day host when it began 24-hour announces in 1979, with a programme that incorporated a what is on information and a cookery slot “for the ones of our listeners who get house past due and really feel like a snack”.
He additionally made appearances on TV displays together with Most sensible of The Pops, Blankety Clean and Going Reside.
