Alan Roberts (broadcaster)
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Alan Price-Roberts or Alan Roberts (born 19 July 1946) is an English radio presenter, producer and
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Broadcasting career

Originally from
Marlow, Buckinghamshire Marlow ( ), historically Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow, is a town and civil parish within the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the River Thames, south-southwest of High Wycombe, west-northwest of Maidenhead and ...
, Roberts was the station programme director with The Voice of Peace during a journey through the
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in January 1977. Founded by Jewish businessman Abie Nathan, the "Peace Ship" broadcast highly successfully to millions of Israeli and
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listeners from the
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off the coast of
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. It was staffed by a multi-national group of mainly
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DJs and crew members, and gave several young broadcasters their first taste of radio. He first started broadcasting on British radio in 1977 at
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Radio Oxford, one of a generation of British broadcasters that included
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, David Freeman, Martin Stanford, Garry Richardson,
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and Peter Grant. After several years with the Radio Oxford, Alan joined Swansea Sound replacing John Sachs. He then moved to Severn Sound where he was Head of Music and their first voice on air. Subsequently, he moved to GWR FM Bristol as afternoon presenter, replacing Paul Phear who had left to join Chiltern Radio. In 1989, Roberts joined
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as the producer of ''The
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, the ''Decca Records Story'' and ''The Vipers Tale'' a three-part documentary about the life of his friend Wally Whyton. Whilst at Radio 2 Roberts clandestinely broadcast on the satellite radio network Quality Europe FM as DJ Paul Revere, presenting the Saturday Afternoon Soft Rock Show for about two months in 1990. In 1996, Roberts left Radio 2 and joined the
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where he produced
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, Sarah Ward (director) and the last two years of ''Country Style'' with Wally Whyton before he died in 1997. He presented ''Country Style'' for a short while before the programme, closely associated with Whyton, finally ended.


Acting and other work

As an actor, Roberts has appeared in ''
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'' for HTV, '' Boon'' for Central TV, and ''Reasonable Force'' and ''
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'', for
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. Alan has also featured in minor acting roles in several other UK Television series e.g. 'Crossroads' 'Zero Option' 'Jamaica Inn' 'Return to Treasure Island' 'The Puppet Man' and films 'Far from the Madding Crowd' 'Husbands' and 'Those Magnificent Men'. He has directed a concert and documentary television programme on Claudia Hirshfeld for German TV. He moved to
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in 2000 and set up Quay Productions, a small-scale production company making local history, art and travel programmes for digital television networks and occasional documentaries for BBC networks and local radio. Since 2005 he has been mainly engaged in painting but makes occasional programmes for BBC local radio. In 2009 Alan joined up again with The Voice of Peace in Israel and now syndicates two weekly programmes and presents the daily Afternoon Delight weekdays. He also airs the same shows to The Voice of Peace International who broadcast from Stoke-on-Trent in UK rather clandestinely and via the internet. In 2011 also joined up with Hometown Radio Station Marlow FM and now presents a weekly Country Show called Americanza and Alien's Blues Cruise for them.


References

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