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Articles about Sylvia Peters

Announcers’ Suite

Published 5 December 2022

The presentation control room and the announcers move from Ally Pally to Lime Grove

Focus on the future

Published 7 November 2022

Never mind how or what we’ll be watching in the year 2000: it’s time for TV to ditch cliché and resist Americanisation

When I talk to you

Published 14 March 2022

An interview with the BBC continuity announcer McDonald Hobley

The Story of ANNOUNCERS and ANNOUNCING over Thirty Years

Published 4 March 2022

Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers

Welcome to the NEW Region…

Published 21 January 2022

Television comes to the Midlands in 1949 and here’s all you need to know about the new Sutton Coldfield transmitter

✎ Sylvia Peters 1925-2016

Published 28 July 2016

The Times newspaper today reports the death of Sylvia Peters, the BBC’s chief female announcer in the 1940s and 50s.

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Thursday 28 March 2024