Back in the BBC he wrote and produced programmes for, among others, Roy Plomley, Michael Bentine and Stéphane Grappelli.

It was devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley.

Arlott was twice invited to appear on Desert Island Discs with Roy Plomley, in May 1953 and again in May 1975.

He was interviewed by Roy Plomley on Desert Island Discs on 1 December 1979: his music choices included five classical selections and three others while his chosen book was Boswell's Life of Johnson.

* Roy Plomley

Hosts during the programme's history have included Roy Plomley and Anthony Quinton.

Among them was Roy Plomley, later famous for creating and presenting Desert Island Discs for BBC radio.

* Roy Plomley closes down a day's broadcasting by Plugge's Radio Normandy ( format: MP3 )

* Radio Normandy Calling – Roy Plomley previews programmes ( format: RealAudio )

Francis Roy Plomley ( pronounced Plumley ), OBE ( 20 January 1914-28 May 1985 ) was an English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist.

Roy Plomley in the late 1930s presenting Radio Normandy Calling from the stage of the Hippodrome, Eastbourne.

This was because, when Roy Plomley devised the programme, he was a freelance producer, and it had been argued therefore, that the ' format rights ' of the programme belonged to him rather than to the BBC.

* A rare recording of Roy Plomley in his pre-war Radio Normandy days may be heard at the website Paul's Radio Museum.

* Roy Plomley at the Radio Academy-includes some audio clips from Desert Island Discs and other BBC programmes.

Also honoured were broadcasters Libby Purves, Roy Plomley and Alan Coren.

Chapman also contributed sketches to the BBC radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and television programmes such as The Illustrated Weekly Hudd ( starring Roy Hudd ), Cilla Black, This is Petula Clark, and This Is Tom Jones.

Bob Dylan marked Orbison as a specific influence, remarking that there was nothing like him on radio in the early 1960s: With Roy, you didn't know if you were listening to mariachi or opera.

On 2 September 1967, the fort was occupied by Major Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters.

Author Bill Cherry proposed George Roy Clough as the first to invite listeners to argue politics on a call-in radio show at KLUF, his station in Galveston, Texas, as a way to bring his own political views into listeners ' homes.

* Country Music with the Muppets-Hosted by Rowlf at a barnyard radio station, with guest stars Mac Davis, John Denver, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Roy Clark, Johnny Cash, Roy Rogers, and Dale Evans.

The scene with the radio report is one of two scenes that reveal the names of the Skipper ( Jonas Grumby ) and the Professor ( Roy Hinkley ); the names are used in a similar radio report early in the series.

George Roy Hill directed and Claude Rains provided a narration – a practice borrowed from radio dramas which provided a template for many television dramas of the time.

During Saturday nights Carl would listen to the radio with his father and hear the Grand Ole Opry, and Roy Acuff's broadcasts on the Opry inspired him to ask his parents for a guitar.

His death on October 2, 1998 came fewer than three months after the death of another celebrated cowboy of the silver screen, radio, and TV, Roy Rogers.

Roy Hudd, OBE ( born 16 May 1936 in Croydon ) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment.

Langham went on to appear on Smith and Jones ' own programme, Alas Smith and Jones, playing an ineffectual panel show host ; this character apparently inspired John Morton to create the character of Roy Mallard, later to feature in his show People Like Us played both on radio and ( offscreen ) on television by Langham.

People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary ( or mockumentary ) written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer.

Thus, a Georgia radio station of that era lists " cowboy Roy Lykes ", the " Yodeling Fence Rider " from Texas, in its 1934 roster.

A mock Paul Harvey radio broadcast in The Simpsons episode " Homer's Barbershop Quartet " reports " that little boy that nobody liked grew up to be ... Roy Cohn.

Unknown to the crew, Roy had smuggled a cheetah named Chico aboard the vessel ( Penn Jillette suggested on his radio show that it was an ocelot ).

In 1936, the Columbia Broadcasting System commissioned six American composers ( Aaron Copland, Louis Gruenberg, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, William Grant Still and Piston ) to write works for CBS radio stations to broadcast.

He is assisted by a radio support crew consisting of Roy Campbell ( spelled " Roy Kyanbel " in the original MSX2 version ), his new commanding officer ; McDonnell Miller, a survival coach and drill instructor ; George Kasler (" George Kesler " in the MSX2 version ), a military strategist ; and Yozef Norden ( renamed Johan Jacobsen in the later revised versions ), a wildlife expert.

Roy Ayers hosts the fictitious radio station Fusion FM in Grand Theft Auto IV ( 2008 ).

Doyle commenced his radio career in 1986, when he and Greig Pickhaver created the characters of " Rampaging " Roy Slaven and HG Nelson.

In the early 1990s, " Roy and HG " successfully transferred to ABC-TV ; the first version, also called This Sporting Life, was moderately successful, but suffered from being essentially a TV " talking head " version of the radio show.

After several years on radio, Roy and HG transferred the radio show's format to a series of ABC television shows, including Blah Blah Blah ( 1988 ) ( where they were only seen in silhouette ), This Sporting Life ( 1993 ), the Logie award-winning Club Buggery ( 1995 – 97 ) and its successor The Channel Nine Show ( 1998 ), Planet Norwich ( 1998 ; made in the UK ) and The Memphis Trousers Half-Hour ( 2005 ; taped in Sydney but performed as if broadcast from America ).

He is most famous for playing MP Hugh Abbot in BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character.

Examples of celebrity speakers include singer TV presenter Adrian Chiles, comedian Jasper Carrott, historian and broadcaster Carl Chinn, the Goodies actor and TV presenter Bill Oddie, rock musicians Ozzy Osbourne ( and all other members of the original Black Sabbath ), Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne ( ELO founders ), Rob Halford ( Judas Priest ), Dave Pegg ( of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull ), broadcaster Les Ross, politician Clare Short, SAS soldier, author John " Brummie " Stokes and many actresses and actors ; Martha Howe-Douglas, Donnaleigh Bailey, Nicolas Woodman, Sarah Smart, John Oliver and Ryan Cartwright.

In the mid-1980s he was also immortalised in comic strip form when he spent a season playing for the fictional Melchester Rovers team in the " Roy of the Rovers " strip, in a team containing another former professional player turned TV presenter, Emlyn Hughes, and Spandau Ballet members Martin Kemp and Steve Norman.

There are approximately one-thousand five-hundred members ( including Charles, Prince of Wales, David Copperfield, Ken Dodd, Steve Allen ( radio presenter ), Wayne Dobson, Charlotte and Jonathan Pendragon, Siegfried and Roy, Michael Vincent, Dynamo, Nigel Mansell, John Archer, Professor Richard Wiseman, Andy Nyman and John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market ), in more than forty countries.

When Roy and HG left triple j for Triple M, Kingsmill became the station's longest serving presenter.

Although usually more concise than Roy, and typically taking the role of presenter / interviewer who sets out the subject and poses questions for Roy to comment on, HG Nelson has his own unique and colourful editorial style.

Roy Waller ( 1940 / 41 – 6 July 2010 ) was a regular radio presenter on BBC Radio Norfolk and was the main football match commentator for the station until 2007.

The feature is ' hosted ' by voice samples of the Northern Irish comedian and original Catchphrase presenter, Roy Walker.

Robert " Roy " Walker ( born 31 July 1940 ) is a television personality and comedian from Northern Ireland, who worked for many years as both a television presenter and comedy actor.