Diana Speed is a continuity announcer for
BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
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Born in
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, Speed trained as an actress at the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and DramaThe Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is a conservatoire of music, drama and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, today it acts as one of the leading cultural institutions in the United Kingdom, and is the busiest performing arts...
in Glasgow.
After two years acting in theatre, television & film, Speed joined
Grampian TelevisionGrampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife...
in 1986 and became a long-serving continuity announcer. Along with other staff announcers at Grampian, she read
Grampian Headlines news bulletins throughout the day and also appeared in various regional programmes including Grampian's contributions to the
ITV TelethonsThe ITV Telethons were three charity telethons organised and televised in the UK by the ITV network. They took place in 1988, 1990 and 1992. Each lasted for 27 hours and all were hosted by Michael Aspel.- Thames Telethon :...
in 1988, 1990 and 1992.
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Diana Speed is a continuity announcer for
BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
.
Born in
CornwallCornwall is a county of England in the United Kingdom, forming the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain. It is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Taken with the...
, Speed trained as an actress at the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and DramaThe Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is a conservatoire of music, drama and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, today it acts as one of the leading cultural institutions in the United Kingdom, and is the busiest performing arts...
in Glasgow.
After two years acting in theatre, television & film, Speed joined
Grampian TelevisionGrampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife...
in 1986 and became a long-serving continuity announcer. Along with other staff announcers at Grampian, she read
Grampian Headlines news bulletins throughout the day and also appeared in various regional programmes including Grampian's contributions to the
ITV TelethonsThe ITV Telethons were three charity telethons organised and televised in the UK by the ITV network. They took place in 1988, 1990 and 1992. Each lasted for 27 hours and all were hosted by Michael Aspel.- Thames Telethon :...
in 1988, 1990 and 1992. Speed was the duty announcer on the night of the Piper Alpha disaster (6 July 1988) and remained on air throughout the night to read news updates and present Grampian's coverage of the unfolding disaster.
Whilst at Grampian, Speed also wrote for the
Aberdeen Press and Journal and also gained a teaching qualification. She stayed on at the station until 1998 when the
AberdeenAberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city and one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. It has an official population estimate of .Nicknames include the Granite City, the Grey City and the Silver City with the Golden Sands...
-based presentation department was closed. A year later, she moved to London, freelancing for Radio 4, whilst working as an audio describer. By December 2002, Speed had joined Radio 4 on a full-time basis as an announcer.
She is married with three children.
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