More change at Radio 4, where Chris Aldridge is stepping down from the post of Senior Announcer, held since 2003, in succession to the late Peter Donaldson. He won't be entirely lost to the microphone, working on a freelance basis.
Chris (Collyer's, Horsham and BSc Maths, Bedford College, London) notes a childhood fascination with the wireless. “The radio was always on in our house and I was brought up on programmes like Just a Minute, but when my parents gave me my own transistor radio as a Christmas present at the age of 11, I fell in love with it as a personal medium."
Hospital radio experience at St Mary's helped him get into the BBC as a studio manager. His duties included archiving many hours of Hitler's speeches from the 1930s; spending the whole day on a crutch in a Radio 3 Drama studio as the sound effect of Paul Eddington's wooden leg; and being one of Steve Wright's Afternoon Boys. He tried producing, working on Danny Baker's Sports Call during on the first incarnation of Radio 5, and also doing continuity announcing on the network.
But when it became 5Live, he went back to studio manager for a year, before moving to the Radio 4 announcing team.
I've started shouting at the radio a lot over this particular pronunciation. Is it time I retired?
— Chris Aldridge (@chinaysa) March 22, 2021
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